Case study
Pátio
A shape system cut from the courtyard’s floor tiles, used on menus, aprons and a neon sign that switches off at 23:00.
Identity
Pátio, a courtyard restaurant in Graça
2026
Design Inês Moura · Type Tomás Reis · Photography Rita Salgado
The challenge
Pátio had one menu a year and three printers who disagreed about the colours. The owners wanted something a cook could update at 6 pm without calling us.
The approach
We cut a shape system from the courtyard's floor tiles and set every menu on one grid, so a new dish is a text change, not a layout job. The neon sign runs the same shapes and switches off at 23:00.
38 menu formats from one grid
12 days from brief to print
+22% weekday covers in the first quarter
The invoice · ex. VAT
Brand strategy workshop (1 day) Logo and shape system Menus, receipts and aprons Signage and neon Social templates
Days
12 working days
Team
2 people
Price band
€8–15k
The price band is what the client actually paid, ex. VAT.
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