Video: The geometry of pasta: an example of a book's ingenious graphic design
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It would seem that what a book of recipes for making pasta can give to Humanity? But this is an outdated, retrograde view of reality. It all depends on the illustrator of this book. And, if an illustrator is talented, then he is talented regardless of what the book he is working on is devoted to. Even pasta recipes.
The Geometry of Pasta is not just a book! It has the potential to become a favorite book in Italy, in the Italian diaspora around the world, and indeed among tens of millions of people who love pasta. Indeed, this volume contains a hundred recipes for preparing this wonderful dish.
But The Geometry of Pasta would be no different from dozens of similar cookbooks if not for the work of graphic designer Caz Hildebrand. After all, he created a series of brilliant illustrations for her.
What is good about the graphics is its minimalism and clarity. Indeed, why take photographs or detailed illustrations of a product when you can show the same schematically. Moreover, in this case, it will be much more clear to the reader than in the photograph.
But the book "The Geometry of Pasta" contains more than recipes from chef Jacob Kennedy and pictures to illustrate them. Kaz Gildebrand created, indeed, a holistic graphic image of the entire book: about the cover and the opening words to the smallest detail, which can be viewed almost endlessly.
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