A Stack of Cook It Yourself Newspapers

The Major Project Resolution: Cook It Yourself.

Newspaper, 20 pages, 289 x 380 mm.

My contribution to Design: Research

LCC Postgraduate Shows 2011 – Design Courses

Dates: 1 – 8 December

Private View: Monday 5 December, 6 – 9pm

Exhibition Open: Monday to Friday, 10am – 5pm and Saturday, 10am – 4pm

Venue: London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB

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MA Show Poster

An A1 poster produced for my MA show at London College of Communication

Design: Research

Dates: 1 – 8 December

Private View: Monday 5 December, 6 – 9pm

Exhibition Open: Monday to Friday, 10am – 5pm and Saturday, 10am – 4pm

Venue: London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB

Poster requirements

A1 poster with a 10mm margin

One continuous line of copy of your entire report/thesis. If you wish, include bibliography, footnotes etc.

Use the same typeface set in your report/thesis

Use what ever tints you like, but it must be of black. I would not recommend going any lower than 50%. A safe bet would be for no less than 70%.

Packaged InDesign or Collect for Output your Quark file**

Provide as print ready PDF with no crop or registration marks**

Hand-in!

Major Project

James Brook

London College of Communication

MA Graphic Design 2011

Cook It Yourself

Cook It Yourself

Major Project

James Brook

London College of Communication

MA Graphic Design 2011

Printed by the Newspaper Club

"always a pleasure, never a chore"

www.newspaperclub.com

Typography, Recipes and Cook Books

Typography, Recipe and Cook Books

Major Project Report

James Brook

London College of Communication

MA Graphic Design 2011

Research, Writing, Visual Experiments and Outcomes

Research, Writing, Visual Experiments and Outcomes

Visual Summary

James Brook

London College of Communication

MA Graphic Design 2011

Roastpaper

A small project that looks at the food that people cook – and eat – with friends and family: the meals that are cooked without recipes, without cook books, from memory. This is not food for impressing; it is the everyday meals that we cook for the ones we love. A further aim of the project was to see how people record recipes. I had been thinking about family recipe books and scrapbooks and I was interested in how people might write down (or draw or photograph) the process of cooking a familiar meal.

I had some really nice contributions – all written, and generally using the traditional recipe format (title, ingredients list, method, yield etc). All of them were revealing about the writers in different ways and all are a pleasure to read. Interestingly, the contributions seemed to reveal the gender divide that exists in cooking: despite much coaxing of fellow students, colleagues and friends, the contributors were all female.

I initially collected all the contributions on a blog, www.roastpaper.blogspot.com. I'd forgotten about the texts until early on Saturday morning. I have collected them here as a modest A5 book, printed at home on different coloured papers and stapled; a small and final part of my MA major project hand-in.

Roastpaper

Roastpaper is looking for contributors for a new project that looks at how food fuels friendships and how eating together creates a sense of family: What’s your favourite recipe? Who are the friends you most like to share it with?

Send your most-used recipe – the one you can cook without even thinking about – breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner or supper; a list of your favourite dining companions; and a brief note explaining why eating with these friends is so special to roast@jamesbrook.net

thank you!