During my internship, I’m working on a collaborative project for a restaurant with my supervisor. The restaurant is call Omar’s Mediterranean Cuisine (https://omars.nyc/), which is everything about Mediterranean. In the beginning, my supervisor gave me the old menu that the restaurant had. He wanted me to redesign the menu in three different versions. I started to research a bit of information, but I didn’t go further research, and I started to design. However, I got no idea. I didn’t know how to do it. Then, my supervisor had a meeting with me. He asked me about concept, idea, and everything about designing. I was stuck for the whole time. It seemed like I hadn’t done design work for a long time, so I didn’t know what should I do before I started the design. I tried to do it again, but I failed. After that, my supervisor gave me a favor, which was the menu left for him; the labels left for me. (This is the old menu.)

This time, I got a sense how to start with it, which was well research. I did research on label designs, and the information that my supervisor gave me. I started to have an idea, and I started the design. My supervisor felt surprised, and he liked it. He also asked me to do another version. I got another idea already. I did a second version. My supervisor liked it, too. However, he didn’t ask me to do a third version which was fine. I sent the file to him, and he sent the file to the client. The client responded, and the client liked the second version. The second version of the label design will be print and stick to the sauce bottles. (1^st version is the rectangle; 2^nd version is the circle)

After the successful label designs, my supervisor asked me to go back to the menu design. I was surprised. I thought he did the menu design already. However, he didn’t have an idea, too. He was also stuck, and he didn’t know how to do it, too. We both were stuck. We kept on the research. We wanted the design to look more like Mediterranean Cuisine. We wanted to have three versions. Until now, my supervisor already stopped the menu design because he got no idea. However, I’m still doing it. I’m still researching it. I’m still trying to do the design. I hope we will get it when I leave. Overall, I think it is very hard to design a successful menu.