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!
Lufthansa and Graphic Design
Deutsche Lufthansa is one of the most important airlines in the world, with a long and diverse history that goes back to 1926. The beginning of the 1960s saw one of the most important steps in the development of corporate communication. Lufthansa employed the designer Otl Aicher and his Gruppe E5 student group to develop a visual identity for for the airline. It was substantially realized in 1963 and up until the present day counts as one of the most groundbreaking corporate design solutions of the 20th century. With a focus on the famous brand identity, the design and advertising history of Deutsche Lufthansa from the 1920s to today is comprehensively documented here for the first time. This volume contains numerous illustrations from the corporate archive and background articles and interviews.
www.lars-mueller-publishers.com
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