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Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign

Laura KeungLessons: 14Length: 1.4 hours
Graphic Design Print Design Adobe InDesign
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1.1 Welcome to "Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign"

Welcome to this Envato Tuts+ course, Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign. In this course, you'll learn the process of editing and creating your very own restaurant menu template. By learning how to edit a template, you’ll discover how quick and easy it is to input your own information.

You’ll then learn how to design a restaurant menu by creating your own templates in different styles of food menu design. We’ll start with a single-page menu and walk through some essential tools that will make your life easier. You’ll also learn how to set up a trifold brochure and how to export it successfully for printing.

Throughout the course, you'll practise using some essential tools that will help you set up your restaurant menu template. We’ll touch on layers, master pages, colours, tables, and paragraph styles. These last two tools are really important for keeping your files consistent and organised.

Ready to discover some great meal design ideas? Let’s get started!

1.Introduction
4 lessons, 20:32

1.1
Welcome to "Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign"
01:01

1.2
Restaurant Menu Design Assets and Software
02:04

1.3
How to Edit a Restaurant Menu Template
12:26

1.4
Tips and Tricks
05:01

2.How to Create a Menu Card
5 lessons, 38:27

2.1
Setting Up a Menu Card File
03:39

2.2
Color Swatches and Styles
13:12

2.3
Using Tables in InDesign
05:50

2.4
How to Design a Restaurant Menu Card
11:44

2.5
Preparing the File for Print
04:02

3.How to Create a Trifold Menu
4 lessons, 24:53

3.1
Setting Up a Trifold Menu Design File
05:42

3.2
Color Swatches, Paragraph Styles, and Tables
08:05

3.3
Completing Your Trifold Menu Design
07:56

3.4
Preparing the Trifold Menu File for Print
03:10

4.Conclusion
1 lesson, 02:02

4.1
Conclusion
02:02

1.1 Welcome to "Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign"

Hi there, and welcome to this course, Restaurant Menu Design. The design of a menu can make or break a diner's experience. Menus come in all shapes and sizes, with folds and without. There's also a wide variety in styles, all depending on the type of restaurant that you're designing a menu for. In this course, we'll show you how to design a restaurant menu template. The design process and also to the printing and packaging phase. We will start by showing you how to edit an existing template from an extensive library from Envato Elements. This is great to see how other restaurant's menu design templates are set up. We will move on to designing a simple one sheet menu template. How to set up the essentials and what you need to use for your design to be easy to edit. Last, we will show you how to set up and design a trifold brochure menu design template. Trifold projects can be scary to set up because of defaults. Here, we will show you an easy way to do this that can help you in any of your future projects. Let's get started.

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Laura Keung
Laura Keung
Laura is a design writer, design mentor, and entrepreneur leading Laura Keung Studio, currently based in Munich, Germany. She had her first design client during her first year of university, and since then she has fallen in love with the design process. Laura studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto before interning at renowned studios in Canada and Austria. With 12 years of experience in the design industry, Laura leads her own design studio and collaborates with other creatives on branding and editorial design projects.
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