After day four in the screen print lab, the book is looking fantastic! Tentatively titled “Winter”, this book is the first of four, one for each season. These books give readers another window into everyday life. Winter goes through various activities that someone could do through out the course of a day. The solutions are simple, but because of their simplicity they could be missed amongst the chaos that tends to envelop us. Each book is an escape for it’s readers, giving them creative ideas that could easily be done at little or no cost for better living. There will always be bills to pay, responsibilities to attend, jobs to work, and calls/emails to make, but these books offer temporary solutions for a welcomed departure from hectic schedules. Plus, they are pieces of art in and of themselves. “Winter” is a compilation of 13 prints or pages.
Never fear, eating design has it’s place in this project as well. Literally, there are recipes in the back of the book as a few of the pages deal with those times of the day when one would naturally eat: breakfast as a brown rice cereal, a recipe for great french bread loaves, and a baked winter stew. The bread and stew can be baked simultaneously, stacking the oven for efficient use of time and energy. Conceptually, eating design deals with the verb “to eat” and eating is as part of the everyday as breathing or sleeping. As these books are part of simple solutions to everyday living, eating plays a major role in facilitating creativity throughout the day, not to mention providing that energy needed to create. Stacking functions, like perfectly fitting tupperware, is also a major theme. The book itself, is ’stacked’ so each page leads to the next in concept, colors, and time. Just as our day gets ’stacked’ with activities and duties, this story takes the reader through other ways to structure a winter day. The idea of stacking is hugely relevant to eating design in everything from stacking the oven for efficency, stacking a sandwich because that is how mom made it, or stacking a meal because of cultural rituals. As this book evolves, so will the language used to describe it.
