Food Abstractions: Recipe Book
Editorial Design, Typography, Illustration | October 2024
Food Abstractions is a five-spread recipe book that pairs text-only typographic layouts with abstract illustrations, designed to give equal voice to both type and image.
The project challenged me to create a cohesive system that balanced readability, hierarchy, and rhythm while allowing expressive typographic experimentation, including shifts in scale, weight, and word structure.
Tools: InDesign, Procreate
Behind The Design
Illustrations, created in Procreate, leaned into abstraction rather than literal depictions, using textures, bold colors, and flat graphic shapes to suggest ingredients and processes.
This approach connected visually to each recipe while maintaining a unified visual language across the series.
The project marked one of my first integrations of traditional drawing sensibilities with digital tools, informing how I approach composition and visual storytelling.
Through these decisions, the recipe book functions as an experimental design object, playful, expressive, and cohesive.
Food Abstractions strengthened my ability to connect type and image, explore hierarchy and rhythm, and balance experimentation with functional design, laying the foundation for my ongoing approach to editorial and illustrative work.