Lagotto by Studio Hi Ho

 agotto is a new all-day café, wine bar and food store situated inside Nth Fitzroy, a residential property development project from Milieu located at the heart of Melbourne’s, inner north. Named after the truffle-hunting Italian dog breed, the café offers a relaxed European surrounding in which to enjoy an Italian menu with a “joyful vibrancy that avoids kitschiness or pastiche”. Studio Hi Ho, also responsible for the visual identity of the Nth Fitzroy development, was commissioned to put forward a proposal for Lagotto that would resonate with the distinctive interior design scheme, the local community’s tastes and Mediterranean migrant history. This was achieved through type pairing, materiality and playful illustration by Ted Parker.

Logotype, visual identity, business cards and packaging by Studio Hi Ho for restaurant and food store Lagotto

Studio Hi Ho worked with the interior design company Flack Studio to develop brand assets that seamlessly aligned and integrated with Lagotto’s interior space and vision, coming up with naming and visual identity which was applied across menus, business cards, signage, packaging, website and a series of Instagram assets.

Lagotto interior design by Flack

Lagotto interior design by Flack

Lagotto interior design by Flack

Just as Nth Fitzroy sort to create living architecture that established a neighbourly connection–read more here–so does the interior design of the development’s new eatery Lagotto and To Go experience. Throughout, a tapestry of materials are woven together, with the forms of Italian modernism establishing a continuity. This is exemplified by the flooring which sees different materials inlaid as geometric shapes, and the solid marble of the bar alongside the fine delicate and tall legs of the bar stools. There is plenty to discover within the interior. Texture, form, space, colour and light all have been used to great effect, appearing distinctive and its referential nature apparent but not blunt of kitsch.

Illustration by Ted Parker commissioned by Studio Hi Ho for restaurant and food store Lagotto

There is a conviviality infused into the space. This largely comes through in the interplay of simple forms and a material detail. This sentiment also appears in Lagotto’s visual identity in the dialogue between two distinct type styles; the classical detail of a serif and the enduring modernist forms of a sans-serif, and alongside the unexpected cheerful character of Ted Parker’s dog illustrations.

Logotype, visual identity, business cards and packaging by Studio Hi Ho for restaurant and food store Lagotto

The dog is a useful symbol of daily community interaction. There is a sense of joy and occasional silliness in Ted Parker’s work. Here, it is unexpected and distinctive, offering a lightness and life to the website and social media feed, static and in motion. The style also appears detached from a specific time and place, and in this way comfortably exists within a space of Mediterranean and Italian modernist influences, in Melbourne. Other small details include the motion and flow of type online, pops of colour and art direction that draws on that which was set up for Nth Fitzroy; arranged around a time of day and the life of the architecture.

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