COQODAQ Menu Illustrations

Commissioned to create a series of food and drink illustrations for COQODAQ, a Korean fried chicken restaurant in New York City, this project involved developing custom artwork for their printed menu in collaboration with Pentagram. The illustrations highlight signature offerings - including fried chicken, seafood, noodles, oysters, wine bottles and cocktails - rendered in a bold, expressive style that aligns with the restaurant’s contemporary identity.

The final artworks were integrated throughout the menu design, contributing to COQODAQ’s distinctive visual presence within the New York hospitality scene.

View the menu live at https://www.coqodaq.com/menus

Menu featuring raw bar, tartare, salad, and fried chicken with various sides and sauces.

A digital illustration of a bowl of fried chicken, with a glowing, radiating, starburst background.

Client
COQODAQ (NYC)

Art Direction & Design
Pentagram

Infographic with information about Better Chicken, Batter, Oil, Bubbles, Balance, and Planet, featuring illustrations of chickens, vegetables, and other food-related images.

Menu featuring fried chicken and champagne, with various champagne bottles and glasses, and a list of wine options including whites, reds, and rosés.

Rainbow trout on a bed of ice with white rays radiating outward.

The menu features the COQODAQ Classics, Coqtails, No ABV Cocktails, and Beers. Classic cocktails include Alaska Martini, The Highball, American Trilogy, Cosmo-DAQ, and Gold Rush. Coqtails include Sagwa Sour, Serpentine, Boricha, White Pine Rust, Double Deuce, Wilo, Jubilee, Street Waffle, and Crimson Cup. No ABV Cocktails include Poppy Hill, Grey Room, Revival Road, Ghia Le Spritz Soda, Aplos Ume Spritz, and No ABV Spagett. Beers are divided into Draft Beer (Brooklyn Lager, Guinness), No ABV Beer (Brooklyn Brewery Special Effects, Guinness 0), and Bottles & Cans (Kills Boro Killsner, Lucky Chicken Pale Ale, Lucky Cat White Ale, Talea Peach Berry Punch, Bronx Brewery, World Gone Hazy, Miller High Life Pony). The menu is decorated with graphical illustrations of a martini glass and a cocktail shaker.

A bowl of noodles with chopsticks lifting some noodles over an exploding background.

A dessert menu with a graphic of soft serve frozen yogurt topped with fruit and surrounded by sliced fruits, with the heading 'DESSERTS' at the top.

Menu of brunch classic cocktails with a large central egg-shaped graphic and six cocktail images around it, each with descriptions and prices.

Menu page titled "Wake Up!" with features about tea and coffee options, including fresh orange juice with oranges. Sections highlight Fine Pot of Tea with different varieties, Bottomless Pour Drip Coffee of the Week, and Fresh OJ of the Day, all with descriptions and prices.

A cup of soft serve ice cream topped with berry sauce surrounded by sliced oranges, starfruit, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, passion fruit, and dragon fruit slice.

A promotional poster for a champagne menu featuring a large champagne bottle, a tiered champagne glass display, and a small bottle with a glass. The poster includes sections for champagne recommendations, baby bottles, other sparkling drinks, and prices, with a minimalistic design and a soft pink background.

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