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Case Study 2024 Restaurant / F&B

Sushi Airways

An aviation-themed sushi concept that earns its double-take.

Client

Sushi Airways

Industry

Restaurant / F&B

Year

2024

Scope

WebsiteInstagramPhotographySocial Strategy
SUSHI SUSHI

★ The Challenge

What the brief really was.

Sushi Airways is a sushi restaurant with an aviation-inspired identity — the kind of distinctive concept that lives or dies on whether the brand world feels fully committed. A half-baked execution would have made the whole thing feel gimmicky.

The owners had a strong visual idea but no consistent online presence to express it. Instagram was a mix of dish photos and reposts with no through-line, and the website didn't exist yet. We needed to build a full digital identity that earned the concept the second a customer landed on it.

★ The Approach

Strategy & creative thinking.

01

Treat the concept like a real airline brand

Boarding passes for menus, flight-style typography for the website, departure-board patterns running through Instagram grids. The aviation idea wasn't decoration — it was the system every visual decision flowed from.

02

Photography that's stylised, not just nice

Standard food photography would have undercut the concept. Every shoot was art-directed around aviation references — overhead 'cabin view' compositions, runway-style linear lighting, dishes plated to feel like in-flight service. The food still looked delicious, but the staging carried the brand.

03

Build a website that feels like an experience

The site was treated as the digital lobby of the restaurant — bold type, concept-forward imagery, an obvious reservation flow. Not a generic restaurant template; something that made you want to actually visit.

04

Instagram as a visual feed, not a billboard

I planned the grid in nine-tile blocks so the page reads as a designed surface, not an ad dump. Each new post is shot to fit a known position in the grid — meaning the feed always looks intentional, never cluttered.

★ The Deliverables

What went live.

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