Friday Likes 350
A trio of very different restaurants from around the U.S. make up this week’s round-up with work from Birmingham, Nashville, and New York. Plaza Bar & Lounge by Studio Carnley Plaza Bar & Lounge is a restaurant in Auburn, AL, that blends a dive bar personality with what looks like seriously good food. The identity, designed by Birmingham, AL-based Studio Carnley, takes the dive bar aesthetic and builds on it with a humorous spin and a subtle high-brow design touch to yield some low-brow-looking applications that give off a great roadside-bar-where-a-Tarantino-movie-could-be-shot vibe. The primary logo is a simple crown with industrial typography in it, quickly signaling that this is less royal-palace and more gas-station. The secondary logo is a hamburger with legs, arms, a c