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Full brand launchRestaurant · Toronto

A name first, then everything else.

Dodoner is a döner restaurant on Queen Street West in Toronto. Its founder, Selda Oncel, had worked with our creative director on her first restaurant and came back before this one had a name. She credits us with creating the name, then the world around it.

Client
Dodoner
Where
Queen Street West, Toronto
Opened
February 2024
Role
Naming · Brand identity · Packaging · Signage · Digital & 3D
The Dodoner square mark pressed into white paper

The name

A name that stacks.

Dodoner splits into a mark that works on its own: DO over DO in a torn-edge square, with the full name for when there is room. The square fits a hanging sign, a sticker or an app icon; the long version runs across the storefront.

The logo animation came with it, for screens and social.

Dodoner logo versions in red on white and white on red

Signage

Drawn to the inch, hung on Queen West.

The projecting sign was specified in a dimensioned drawing, then made and hung over the street. At night the red frontage and the lit square carry the brand to the far side of Queen Street.

Dimensioned drawing of the Dodoner projecting sign and its lamp bracket
The drawing
The Dodoner projecting sign installed on the street
On the street
The Dodoner storefront at night with customers at the counter
The Dodoner hanging sign lit at night

Around the counter

From the aprons to the A-frame.

The same red, white and torn edge carry through the staff aprons, the menu board on the sidewalk and the food photography.

Dodoner aprons in red and black with the square mark
The Dodoner A-frame menu board
The Dodoner logo over a döner wrap

Online

The same street, on a screen.

A responsive 3D website carried the brand onto laptops and phones, along with digital menu screens and social templates for the launch.

The Dodoner website on a laptop and a phone

Opening a restaurant?

Start with the name.

We can name it, brand it and put it on the street. Tell us about the food.

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