For a decade, Hotel Tapa Tour has championed the tapa as an emblem of Spanish gastronomy, transforming hotels into epicenters of flavor, enjoyment, and innovation. ESIETE defined its identity system in the first edition, based on the iconic toothpicks that have shaped and communicated the brand ever since, strategically positioning the festival on the national culinary map.

The X of Flavor. The 10th-anniversary campaign, “Con la tapa por bandera” (“With the tapa as our flag”) blends tradition and minimalist avant-garde, raising flags as a metaphor for pride in our gastronomic and cultural heritage. A decade filled with successes proves that cutting-edge design and culinary tradition are a perfect match.

Every year, Biergarten Brewery & Kitchen celebrates the Karnataka Food Festival – a tribute to a state that’s a mosaic of accents, kitchens, playlists, and Friday-night pints. This year’s identity draws from the warmth of the Kowdhi quilt of North Karnataka; square patchworks of reused fabrics stitched into rhythmic geometry, paired with colours inspired by vibrant risograph inks and traditional quilts.

Tiny square illustrations echo Kowdhi’s pattern and pair seamlessly with Bungee, Biergarten’s primary typeface with its bold, structured form. Anek Kannada brings the regional script and language into the system, adding warmth through its semi-rounded forms and generous curves while maintaining clarity at every scale. The stacking of Bungee with Anek Kannada mirrors the layered patchwork of the quilts. P22 Underground anchors the typography with a clean, highly legible foundation for body copy and functional text.

Every year, Biergarten Brewery & Kitchen celebrates the Karnataka Food Festival by incorporating ingredients rooted in Kannada food culture. For 2024, a trip to Mysore led us to Rajamudi, a red rice once favoured by royalty, which became the inspiration for crafting a special Mysore Lager for the festival. The visual language draws from Mysore’s royal heritage, blending the vibrancy of palace interiors, vintage Kannada film posters, and old postal stamps into a lively colour palette that echoes both royal splendour and the state flag.

Expressing this cultural blend, we used Bungee, the brand’s primary display typeface, and anchored this in local context with Anek Kannada, for its semi-rounded, contemporary interpretation of the Kannada script. The softness and rhythmic curves of Anek Kannada offer a striking balance to Bungee’s rigid, modular forms, creating a dynamic typographic interplay across headlines, labels, and motion assets. P22 Underground is used as the supporting typeface, providing clean, legible structure for body copy and functional text.

The videography extends this typographic and visual sensibility into motion. Inspired by 1980s Sandalwood cinema, it features bold, stacked type treatments set against scenes from Mysore’s royalty.

The visual identity for the Halftime Orange Wine Festival was designed by Chai Kunpeng (After Path Design), who describes the project as follows:

Organized by thewinepool, the first Orange Wine Festival in China was held at the outdoor basketball court in the north section of Beijing's China World Trade Center. thewinepool's posters were based on a half-symmetrical design based on the keyword of the "basketball court" half of the court. The graphic of the basketball court was used as the soil from which the tools used to make orange wine, such as clay pots and grapes, sieves and scissors, were grown to create a visual image of natural vitality.

The same material was used for both the poster and the derivatives package: PE woven bag, screen printed with environmentally friendly ink. The reason for using the traditional printing method and the specificity of the material is that we are trying to express the organic raw material, the sustainability and the vitality of the brewing method of "Orange Wine" in a more relevant way. The idea is to bring the participants closer to "Orange Wine", "Natural Brewing" and "Freshness".

Typefaces: DaVinci by Virgile Flores and Hosei FW Chikushi Mincho by Founder and Fontworks.

Kraft Market is a new urban terrace in the heart of Bucharest, Romania. With environmental and graphic design by Daniel & Andrew Design Studio, the market makes extensive use of my typeface Megazoid… I couldn’t be happier with how they have put it to use!

A note from Daniel & Andrew Design Studio:

Kraft Market combines the experience of an urban garden with the commitment to tell the story of the craftsmanship community. Megazoid typeface perfectly checks all the boxes of this identity and wordmark. It has a beautiful structure made of raw elements, that creates a memorable tension between readability and abstraction. This expresses in a visual manner both the unique profile of the space and what it means to build something handmade.

Kraft Market’s logo and headlines take advantage of Megazoid’s alternate single-story a and rounded e, which softens its appearance slightly. Freight Text serves as a companion face, used for supporting text and some headlines. The type is accompanied by bright colors, bold geometric patterns, and simple but effective illustrations. The environmental graphics include large illuminated signs and neon.

The lovely illustrations were done by Alina Georgescu, and Kaustik served as the production studio on the project.

The market’s visual language has grown to include a Christmas pop-up (Târg de Krafciun), which features some beautiful three-dimensional uses of Megazoid, as well as Forma DJR for informational text.

Poster (photo mockup from Mockup Maison)

Poster (photo mockup from Bendito Mockup)

Poster (photo mockup from Mockup Maison)

Poster (photo mockup from Mockup Maison)

Festin, organised by Microgram, is a four days festival about food, located in different adresses in the city of Montpellier. The program presents a variety of events: talks about literature, food and feminism, tastings, art exhibitions, workshops and, to conclude the festival, a buffet and some music.

Aude Bertrand designed the graphic identity of the festival using illustrations by herself, and by Lucile Gautier.

Risograph printed poster

Storefront of the library En traits libres, Montpellier

Flyer

Facebook and Instagram posts

At the library En traits libres, Montpellier

Bread & Butter Festival is the UK’s first food founders’ festival, providing a platform for emerging food and drink entrepreneurs to access industry expertise and unique opportunities.

The visual identity uses the textured Eveleth to add character to the logotype sandwiched between two graphic ‘slices of bread’.

See more on the website of White Bear Studio.