About Designing Springfield

I'm a graphic designer - illustrator - cartoonist with a fondness for typography and a liking of the Simpsons. It seems only natural to put them together and have a little fun with the world of Springfield. It might also lead to paying work....

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Luigi's Italian Restaurant


The character Luigi is a deliberate stereotype, derived from that piece of clip-art that appears on practically every pizza box ever delivered. As such, his restaurant is a stereotypical Italian restaurant/pizzeria, so that's where we begin.

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Italian restaurants (apart from Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti) is the red & white checked tablecloth. I muted it down a bit by using thin striped squares instead of solid red blocks.

Naturally, the colors should be taken from the Italian flag, but again, I muted the colors down, choosing a light pastel green.

Fonts are : A&S Graceland for Luigi's, Stempel Schneidler Black for "Italian Restaurant"' and New Berolina for the slogan.

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