Let’s Eat! Recipe Books
Recipes for a great time
Created 3 hand binded books with a focus on 3 popular Filipino foods: Panict, Lumpia, and various desserts.
Overview
Creating a functional, informational, yet different take on recipe books. With 7 different people’s variation of the dish.
Research
My research first started with a one-on-one interview with different Filippinos, who provide their recipes and more about themselves helped provide a sense of community within the recipe books. By looking into the history, culture, ingredients, regional variations, and how the dishes or various desserts are made by other Filipinos, the books encourage you to try Filipino cuisine.
Once I got the information that I needed for the recipe books, I started exploring different ways to display the information. Knowing that there are different contributors to the books, I wanted a way to showcase where they are from as well as the similarities and differences of our recipes.
Target Audience
The recipe books are for those who are interested in food, cooking, as well as learning more about different cuisines and cultures.
Exploration Of Transparency Paper
Layers
Since there are different contributors to recipes, I wanted an interactive aspect of the books to show the ingredients. There is a separate page with all the ingredient’s names so when the paper gets layered on top of each other it won’t be hard to read. Exploration of having the guide paper a transparency or the same paper as the rest of the book, as well as having the illustrations outlined or not.
Looking Into The Recipes
Created a timeline of when the person does what tasks overlap, and I wanted to showcase how the reader doesn’t have to be on one task the whole time. Realizing that the steps of the recipes overlap ties in well with the layers that I have created to showcase similarities of the ingredients. Looking into effective ways to communicate the overlapping steps, with the thumbnails of the ingredients, as well as not having the recipe portion of the book to be too text heavy.
Solution
By figuring out a consistent system that will work fluidly for each book that is readable and includes the sense of a community that a celebration also has. Having 7 people provide their recipes and more about themselves helped provide a sense of community within the recipe books. By looking into the history, culture, ingredients, regional variations, and how the dishes or various desserts are made by other Filipinos, the books encourage you to try Filipino cuisine.
