The Craft of cooking
Celebrate Craft
2024
Editorial
The Craft of Cooking is a celebration of the art of professional cooking. In response to the brief, Celebrate Craft, I wanted to ask: ‘What defines a craft?’For me, craft is the process of turning skill, experimentation and materials into something considered.
The book is designed for a professional kitchen environment, using metallic acrylic for the front and back covers. Combined with screw binding and hinges, this gives the piece an industrial feel.
I experimented with printmaking, cooking with paper and type design, using culinary squeezy bottles to create unexpected letter forms and imagery.
Printmaking
Type design
Paper
Cooking
Starting with Prep, clean and ordered illustrations and infographics, creating a slower, more relaxed pace of viewing. The second chapter, Service, uses chaotic but organised visuals with much more texture, creating a faster-paced reading experience. Finished Dishes is the final chapter. Simple, abstract illustrations inspired by high-end fine dining take centre stage, representing the finished product at the end of the kitchen’s daily journey.
Each of the three chapters highlights a different stage of the day in the life of a shift in a professional kitchen.
