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Founding Farmers – farm to table fresh food

Steve Mousourakis — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:18:39 +0000

When our longtime friends at VSAG contacted us about being part of the Founding Farmers restaurant project back in July, we were more than excited. Founding Farmers is unique in that their model is to provide Farm to Table serves fresh Farm-to-Table American-inspired true food and drink, sourcing locally and regionally whenever possible. It’s the first restaurant in Washington, DC to meet the LEED Gold Standard design criteria, and the Green Restaurant Association deemed it a Certified Green Restaurant. This $6 million, 2-story, 8,500 square foot restaurant serves up family farm favorites like fresh-baked biscuits, breads and pastries, omelettes, pancakes, and all the breakfast trimmings, big, hearty rustic farm sandwiches and soups, big, colorful green salads with just-picked vegetables, a variety of pot pies, prime cuts, pot roast, roasted chicken, and rich, delectable pies and desserts from the pastry bar, supplied by the in-house bakery.

The restaurant has even invested in the state-of-the-art Natura® water system to provide guests with fresh-filtered, purified, mineral-filled, chilled sparkling and still water served in glass carafes to eliminate truck deliveries, carbon emissions and to reduce tons of plastic and glass waste.

Other LEED criteria design elements and energy-efficient moves include the use of day lighting to illuminate the restaurant, increased ventilation, green-sourced power and low-VOC emitting paints. Founding farmers officially opened its doors this spring.

bighouse graphix was honored to do the website build for Founding Farmers, and gives props to Allison at Seth Design for the website design. Other credits go to VSAG (Developers), CORE (Architecture) and SPIN (amazing PR work).

SEE THE VIDEO: Founding Farmers on US News

www.wearefoundingfarmers.com

Kobi’s Fast Wraps is now serving

Steve Mousourakis — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:37:58 +0000

Bighouse is proud to have helped launch yet another restaurant with our good friends at VSAG. All branding to include logo development, signage, menu boards, and take out menus was done by bighouse.

Located at Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Kobi’s Fast Wraps is a fresh food fast concept, specializing in sandwich wraps and grilled paninis. Unlike the usual food court offerings of deep fried and the other not-so-good-for-you selections, Kobi’s prides itself in using only the freshest ingredients and roasts their sandwich meats daily.

If it’s all natural, it’s all good.

Steve Mousourakis — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:10:56 +0000

Considering we never really know what’s in our food, its good to know that All Natural Hardwood Lump Charcoal is just that, all natural. No chemicals, No additives, just natural charcoal, ala mother nature.

Then again, considering the philosophy and green practices of our longtime friend Wood Products International, it’s no surprise to us that they chose this route. Along with this product, they are also promoting the use of their All Natural Fatwood Firestarter stick. Are you seeing a trend here?

For the logo design and to maintain that clean, natural approach, we felt simpler is better. Bright colors were used to draw the shoppers attention on the shelf, taking advantage of kraft paperstock that will serve as the packaging material for the bags. For the package design itself, we presented minimal use of illustration for the how-to steps.

We are also proud of the site design me put together as well. Take a look www.allnaturalcharcoal.com

Bobbys Hometown Restaurant

Steve Mousourakis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:11:02 +0000

One thing Rincon, Georgia lacks is dining options. Glad to see new folks come to town, especially when they bring good food. We were excited to help Bobbys Hometown with some promotional invite cards. Their goal is simple, good food so a clean design approach was taken using their architectural rendering as the foundation. Printing for postcards and invite envelopes was done using a Cougar natural cardstock with black ink. Meanwhile, I am dying to try the Brandy Fried Pork Chops.

Visit their site at www.bobbyshometown.com