HELL ON WHEELS:
A Coffee, Burger, and Pie Restaurant needs a new Menu Cover
A local company is franchising a new burger store… retro design, servers on roller skates, old-time fun. And it is mostly for upscale people who like to dress downtown… $30,000 Harleys and Mint Condition 68 Corvettes.
The food is big and fun, and the feature is the old-time feeling of the place.
OR – it can be a local restaurant that is automobile-themed… ‘country-style food (either European or American) and a rustic feeling. But in both, the idea of the automobile/motorcycle is the theme.
Food and hot cars of food and hot bikes or food and upscale cars.
And pie. Don’t forget the pie.
The image must fit the layout provided… and it is a landscape.
Print the image and have it close to you for reference.
PSD FILE (NOTE: New Layout) hellonwheels-main.psd
Note that there is a color scheme already attached, so make sure your colors will work with all that orange
The cover is on the right half and the left half is the backside.
Plan this shot with complete deliberateness.
If the front wraps too far around the back, we lose what you have done, but if the image doesn’t wrap neatly the backside may have no relationship to the front.
Other than the red type on the front, there are no other typographical issues to deal with.
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