Music & skewer barMarkham, Ontario
Skewers with music.
Drinks with stories.
00The project
- Client
- Play House (酒局)
- Location
- Markham, Ontario
- Sector
- Food · music bar
- Year
- 2023
Play House (酒局, roughly “a night of drinks”) is a music bar in Markham, Ontario that serves skewers off the grill: food, music and drinks in one round. I designed its logo and, in September 2023, four social posters for its half-price “BBQ memories” promotion.
- Logo design
- Gold, mono and neon versions
- Half-price grill posters (four)
01The mark
One bottle,
threaded through the name.
The L of PLAY rises into a bottle’s neck and the U of HOUSE drops into its base: one line, one bottle. A long rule runs through both words like a skewer. 音乐串吧 (“music skewer bar”) stacks on the left, 酒局 (“a night of drinks”) stands on the right, and every letter is cut on the slant so the name reads with a beat. The original files carry it in gold, black and white, and a neon cyan for screens.
02The posters
BBQ memories,
half price.
In September 2023 the bar ran half-price grill nights, Sunday to Thursday, and I made four portrait posters for social media. The originals crowded slogan, dates, address and QR code into gold box after gold box. Here they are re-set from the same copy and the same menu photographs: one line per poster, the photograph full bleed, the dates and the branch tucked into a single line at the foot.
音乐串吧烧烤记忆烧烤全场限时五折9.18 – 9.29周日至周四 · 现金结算Markham 店
音乐串吧音乐串吧烤串配音乐，有酒有故事。9.18 – 9.29
周日至周四 · 现金结算Markham 店
音乐串吧烧烤全场限时5折9.18 – 9.29周日至周四 · 现金结算Markham 店
音乐串吧烧烤记忆有酒，有故事。9.18 – 9.29
周日至周四 · 现金结算Markham 店
Four social posters, 1080 × 1440 · re-set in 2026 from the 2023 originals
03The table
Slate, chilli and smoke:
a ground gold can stand on.
The posters draw on the bar’s own menu photography — black slate, scattered chilli, a lift of sparks. The ground is dark enough for the gold of the logo and the type to hold, so the system adds no other colour.
Music & skewer bar · Markham, Ontario
