02Case Study

Hyatt

Design work for the Hyatt Regency Resort & Bungalows across two of its venues, the Weft & Warp restaurant and the Turquoise pool. It began with menus and coasters and grew into an illustration program: by the 2025 list, every drink on the menu had been painted by hand. What follows is the painted work first, then the pool, then the room the drinks were built for.

Client: Hyatt Regency Resort & Bungalows
Year: 2023–2025
What I did: Menus · Cocktail illustration · Coasters · Concept design

Weft & Warp · Illustration

The Mid-Century Painted Campaign

Weft and warp is a weaving term, and the restaurant is built on it: mid-century modern in its art, its architecture, and the way it talks. The painted campaign leans all the way into that history, and into the creative room the bar team gets. Every drink on the menu is its own painting. The coasters put the same hand on the table.

Aviation

Old Fashioned

Negroni

Margarita

Caipirinha

Mai Tai

Vesper

Aperol Spritz

Smoke Signals

Pink Panther

Penicillin

Manhattan

Pisco Sour

Red Eye

Betsy Ross

Beautiful Sight

Tree Hugger

Dharma

The Sun Also Sets

Basically a Margarita

The Pool

Turquoise

The resort is art-centric. The pool's branding wasn't. Sonoran Tiki was the pitch for an upgraded tone, and it had to go to ownership before anything got printed. The deck runs in full here, then what came out of it.

Weft & Warp · The First Menu

The Acrylic Campaign

The first cocktail menu the resort ever put out to an outside designer. They wanted it to read like the art-centric property it sits in, so the drinks were painted and the coasters were cut from the paint itself.