MMMM MMMM CAFE

When I worked at Mitchell & Company, we had a full kitchen with a barstool counter eating area. It’s where we all gathered to eat and socialize. At least once a month, catered meals were prepared on-site. The owner, Mark Mitchell, wanted to name the kitchen the “Mmmm Mmmm Cafe” because of his habit of making that sound while eating delicious meals. Being the delightfully inappropriate person that I am, I came up with this logo. We used it on T-shirts, coffee mugs and a big duratrans sign that hung in the kitchen.

My role: concept and design.

Years later, I named and designed the logo for The Landing, which was a rooftop deck that was built to overlook the Maumee river. While building the deck, we were pretty sure Mitchell & Company would soon be going out of business. Sticking with a greek mythology theme, I decided to go with the story of Icarus – Mitchell & Company was going to have a great time and fly as close to the sun as we could before our wings melted.