Pastaio was one of the first restaurants I visited when I first moved to London. If it wasn't for my friend's birthday, I wouldn't have followed them on Instagram and seen that they wanted one of their fellow follows to design a new menu for the London  Design Festival (thanks Dani!). 

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The idea of the menu came from seeing the single bold wall mural (designed by Tom Nixon) in their restaurant and also taking their mantra "Made By Hand" (in which I hand drew all the illustrations). I then used Illustrator to add colour and shadows to add dimension to the floating pasta shapes.

 

I was announced as one of their running ups by their post on Instagram and was invited for a free 3 course meal for 2 and a free tote bag.