Corked Wine Bar & Steak House

I began the Corked Wine Bar branding with drawing inspiration from a few bottles of wine. The inspiration for wrapping the letter “C” into four circles came from the aftermath of a napkin used as a coaster. I positioned the letter “C” inside the rings to resemble an open wine bottle, viewed from the top. Conceptually this may have been enough on it’s own, but I wanted to some more flare to the Corked Wine Bar logo. My thoughts were to design a minimal, integrated, corkscrew to take the place of the letter “E” in the word “Corked”.

I took the simplicity and elegance implemented into the logo and carried it over to the website UI Design. Starting with the navigation, I imagined this section from a server draping a towel over their forearm after having poured a glass of wine. The fullscreen background of the website is used to support the concept of the open kitchen found in the restaurant, while allowing the photographs to speak every single one of their thousand words.