San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Restaurants
April 2025
Branding | Video Editing | Motion Graphics | Event Assets
Overview
On April 7, 2025, The San Francisco Chronicle hosted the 2025 Top 100 Restaurants Celebration & Reveal event at the SF Design Center where 700 foodies and restaurant industry leaders awaited the reveal of the ranked Top 100 Restaurants of the Bay Area from 2025.
My Role
I put together all the marketing promotions, signage, promotional items, and sponsorship collaboration materials. I lead the live visuals featured on the main screen of the stage where a live awards show was revealed with animated graphics and audio through my Keynote presentation.
Animated Branded Event Logo
General Event Logo
Sponsors Event Logo
Simplified Logo
Top 100 - 51 Restaurants Slideshow Static Graphics
A week prior to the event, No. 100-51 had been revealed as a preview. As the attendees enjoyed appetizers and drinks before the Awards Program began, No. 100-51 were looping within a slideshow.
Top 50-11 Restaurants Reveal Video + Graphics
The audience watched the main stage screen as No. 50-11 were revealed for the first time.
Top 10 Restaurants Reveal Video + Graphics
Each of the Top 10 Restaurants had their own isolated announcement. Sitting in the AV table, I had to coordinate the timing with the emcee and DJ to reveal the graphics on time and play my curated awards instrumental music (a variety of cinematic movie scores from movies like Inception to Armageddon. Triumphant and Epic music was the goal as the restaurant owners walked up to the stage).
No. 2 Rank Restaurant: IG Video reaction + AV Table POV + Reveal Graphics
No. 1 Rank Restaurant: IG Video Reaction + AV Table POV + Reveal Graphics
Awards Program Storyboards
Storyboards I created to coordinate with the event program manager, emcee, and DJ.
Various Awards Program Motion Graphics
Memoriam Slideshow Ending Transition
Name Cards
Ending graphics of Awards Program
Top 100 Restaurants 2025 Event Recap
Within a week after the event, I got an edited video with music from our event videographers. I added branded graphics, sponsor logos, and consistent reveal graphics. This video was shared by the social media teams of the San Francisco Chronicle and our sponsors: OpenTable and Visa.