I was invited to design three food lettering pieces for Denny's Diner for the 2015 holiday season: one for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the new year to run on social networks. I was also hired to do a timelapse of the Christmas design showing the progress of the lettering and styling.
Agency: Erwin Penland
Copywriting: Erwin Penland
Producer: Dana Kandic
Lettering, Photography: Becca Clason
Styling: Josh Clason and Becca Clason
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The team at Erwin Penland wanted the Thanksgiving design to be "all about bacon". My husband fried an handful of eggs and cooked up no fewer than 40 slices of bacon, which I formed into letters using the strips as well as homemade bacon bits, which was used for the script lettering portion.
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The Christmas holiday image features a pot roast from Denny's—classic comfort food. For the design, I used some of the ingredients of the pot roast meal to create the lettering: salt, carrots, and mashed potatoes with gravy.
Click the play button below to watch the timelapse.
A video posted by Becca Clason (@beccaclason) on Dec 24, 2015 at 9:29pm PST
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The Erwin Penland team wanted the New Year design to be super sweet, utilizing many of the dessert toppings from Denny's, so I used strawberry topping, apple/brown sugar crumble, whipped cream, sprinkles, maraschino cherries, caramel sauce, and nuts to create a design that makes your teeth hurt.
To show some of my process, below are rough preliminary sketches that I delivered to the team as well as some close-up detail photos.
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