SWAMP BAKERY

The Swamp Bakery is a short web design project where I give life to a fictional bakery, crafting a simple website and illustrating its logo and the items on the menu.

OVERVIEW

The Swamp Bakery is a fictional magical bakery located in the middle of a mystical swamp.

The use of custom pixel art illustrations blends retro gaming aesthetics with organic, food-focused imagery, ensuring a cohesive visual language that supports the mystical bakery narrative.

LOGO

The logo features a stylised lily pad rendered in pixel art technique, capturing the essence of wetland flora and the bakery's aquatic swamp setting. 

The design showcases the distinctive segmented leaf structure of a lily pad, with its characteristic central split. The logo employs a three-tone green palette that creates depth through careful pixel placement: darker pixels define the lily pad's outline and inner shadows, medium tones fill the main body, and lighter pixels suggest highlights and the natural dimensional curves of the floating leaf. 

The circular background uses concentric rings of varying green tones, creating a subtle gradient effect that evokes the rippling water surface on which lily pads naturally rest.

MENU ITEMS

The pixelated food items illustrate the website's menu, evoking classic adventure games where mystical food vendors might offer magical sustenance to weary travellers.

Moss Muffin: A traditional muffin topped with the bakery's signature "moss" frosting. The muffin features a classic domed shape rendered in earthy green tones, with the characteristic pleated paper wrapper shown in darker forest green at the base. The pixel art technique emphasises the muffin's rounded, appetising form, while the green colour palette maintains thematic consistency. The illustration balances familiar bakery aesthetics with the mystical swamp theme, making the item feel both magical and deliciously appealing.

Bog Croissant: A buttery croissant with mystical green colouring and cheese-herb filling. The croissant's characteristic flaky layers are suggested through careful pixel placement and subtle tonal variations, whilst the emerald colouring maintains the swamp theme. The overall shape retains the classic curved form that makes croissants instantly recognisable, ensuring the magical reinterpretation doesn't compromise visual clarity.

Swamp Latte: A hot drink made from a matcha-pistachio blend. The illustration features a classic rounded mug with a handle (carefully created to communicate a top-down angle), rendered in warm cream tones that suggest ceramic warmth and comfort. The most striking element is the vibrant green matcha foam that fills the cup's surface, complete with a delicate white heart-shaped foam art design at its centre, a touch that bridges the magical swamp theme with familiar coffee culture. The green tones range from deep forest to bright sage, capturing the rich matcha and pistachio blend described in the menu.

Want to know even more about the Swamp Bakery?

Check out a page focused on its design, read more about my coding projects, or see the bakery's website on Codedex.