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I went to the Tasting Notes food magazine fair and got to flip through a whole bunch of food inspired zines.
They had published works from all different types of folks, but it made me realize the food world is having a bit of a print design renaissance. But it’s not your family cook book.
Some publications had been around for decades and others were self-printing their first edition. But everyone was really passionate and excited about their work. Loved seeing all the print specific ideas.
The haul of publications:
@guzzlemag
@toothsome_magazine
@chickpea_mag
@kitchentablemag
@abovethefolddumplings
@saveurmag
@synonym_mag
@cake_zine
Loved the event @serviettemagazine ! Thanks for putting it on.
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Composition book or steak? I think the food worse actually having a print design moment. I went to this food magazine fair and I ended up coming home with a small library. I was drawn to Guzzle's cover because I really liked the logo and I also liked the cover art, but then I really appreciated on the inside how they were never afraid to play with type. Twosome is using colored pages with their whole chest. Chickpea uses handwriting really successfully across their entire publication, but it's really cool when they take the modern recipe design feel and they make it feel like your neighbor brought it over because they scribble in the margins. I mean, the illustration inspiration alone in these things. It felt like every publication, like, employed their own illustration guild across a bunch of different styles too. That said, I did buy Savor just for photography, and I love something about these colored backdrops into some. But overall, I just loved how physical it was across all levels of productions. Tier were a saddle stitch dumpling zines best to spiral bound publications, next to the highest quality hardcover collection of tacos that I'd ever seen with this foil impression on top of it. Vallejo just tapped into this spring of creativity where everyone was welcome and everyone just wanted to try new stuff and get it out into the world.
