Gujarati restaurant · Ready-made brand

Thodu Mithu

A little sweet. A pinch of salt. Very Gujarati.

What is inside
A logo in Gujarati and Latin, voice, colour, type, three prints, a researched menu and drinks list, coasters, cards, packaging, the shopfront and social.
Where it stands
Ready-made. A complete identity, waiting for its owner.
Thodu Mithu: brand book cover

The idea

In Gujarati, mithu is the everyday word for salt. It is also a word for sweet. One word, two tastes.

A pinch makes dinner, and a pinch makes Bandhani, the tie-dye of Kutch and Saurashtra, tied one dot at a time. That dot became the mark. The prints are drawn after Bandhani, Patola and Kutch mirror work, each credited, with a page of rules for borrowing them with respect.

Play with it

A pinch at a time.

Drag across the cloth to tie it. Then dip it in a colour. Whatever you tied keeps the colour it had.

Drag here to tie your first dot.

Tie
Dip in

No pinches yet.

After Bandhani, the tie-dye of Kutch and Saurashtra, where each dot is pinched and tied by hand before the cloth is dyed. This is a sketch of the idea, not the craft.

The brand book

16 pages

Thodu Mithu: the idea
The idea
Thodu Mithu: the logo
The logo
Thodu Mithu: voice
Voice
Thodu Mithu: colour
Colour
Thodu Mithu: type
Type
Thodu Mithu: the prints: the dot
The prints: the dot
Thodu Mithu: the prints: in use
The prints: in use
Thodu Mithu: borrowed, with credit
Borrowed, with credit
Thodu Mithu: the menu
The menu
Thodu Mithu: the drinks
The drinks
Thodu Mithu: coasters
Coasters
Thodu Mithu: cards and paper
Cards and paper
Thodu Mithu: to take home
To take home
Thodu Mithu: the place
The place
Thodu Mithu: social
Social

The menu and the Gujarati text are written from research and are checked by a native speaker and a cook before anything is printed.

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