Centerville, Utah

I was approached by, Benj, the owner of Banbury Donuts in Salt Lake City, to design a mural for their new franchise opening in Centerville. Benj had previously seen a mural I designed for a Dirty Dough franchise opening in the Salt Lake area and wanted me to create something similar for Banbury Cross.

This project excited me and I couldn’t wait to get started! As part of my process with any new mural, I usually sketch on my iPad and then put those sketches into a bigger design. Once a design is decided on, I will export my sketches into Adobe Illustrator and finish the mural design there.

Before I started on the design, Benj needed to decide on colors and illustration style. He wanted to use the yellow and maroon colors in the Banbury Cross logo, so I sent over the following screenshots to determine whether he preferred a more realistic illustration style or the same line drawing illustration style I use on my Dirty Dough mural designs.

Benj decided to go with a line illustration for the Banbury Cross mural.

Benj is from England and wanted to have English elements reflected in the mural. He also wanted to show different types of connections and interactions with donuts. After several back-and-forth ideas, the sketch below is what he decided to move forward with:

The British elements would be inside larger donut shapes and the connections would start with Banbury Cross donuts on the bottom left of the mural and move up toward the large donut shapes.

Below are some of the progress check-ins I sent to Benj throughout the process. The original design only had three donut shapes but wall that the mural was designed for is so large that we decided to add two more donuts (we probably could have added 4 or 5 more)!

Here’s a look at the completed mural:

Here are some close-up shots of the different sections:

Here’s me standing next to the mural after visiting the location when I traveled to Utah: