Here are the food typography pages I am doing for my book. I wanted to convey my five eating design starting points and have them become part of the eating design. I am really excited with how they turned out! There were a few I used different foods to say the same word, just to experiment and see how it resonated.

I think I am going to go with the tomatoes on this one; it is cleaner (literally) and colorful. I tried the oranges because of the pungent citrus smell and colors that can make our mouths water by just looking at it. I was looking to see if this imagery would excite the senses through an image.

At first I was thinking about Place more literally; what things grow where? How does it make that place taste the way it does both in flavors of culture and food? This is why I chose coffee as my first material. Especially here in Portland, people drink coffee like water, but it is not grown here. Portland, as a place, has an ever-present aroma of coffee and coffee drinkers are regular fixtures in coffee shops and on the street. On the flip side of that, Portland has a huge breakfast culture. They take pride in their home made pancakes, french toast, eggs benedicts, and breakfast sandwiches (and coffee for that matter). So why Fruit Loops then for the second? It is unquestionably American and sugary cereal is something that is everywhere in this country, even Portland. I am still deciding on this one.

I chose to use green lentils for Personal History because of their heaviness, grounding effects, and concreteness as a staple food. One’s personal history is something that can not change, what’s happened, happened. Lentils are filling and we are filled with who we are no matter what.

Is this poo or chocolate pudding? I like the ambiguity of this because our memories are made up of both the good and the bad, which is something to be honored and celebrated. I also like the idea that the word ‘memory’ could be wiped away and something else written there; another trait of our memories is that they can be selective in what we do remember and there are always going to be new memories made. The malleability of this image is how I see memory in action.

I love this one just as an image! But I also really like how the red lentils look like fish eggs, bringing to mind how a community starts with just one and builds many.