Category: Book

The Geometry of Pasta

I love pasta meals and, as being a visual designer, icon like illustrations and infographics. I fell in love with the  The Geometry of Pasta book.

The Geometry of Pasta, with recipes of  Top Michelin starred chef Jacob Kennedy, shows you “how to develop an instinct for matching pasta and sauce. We explain how to team up pasta with sauce to maximise taste and texture and to turn you from an average into a great pasta cook.”

This cookbook is not like the average cookbook. You won’t find any photos of a steaming plates of fine pasta. Instead you find nice illustrations by Caz Hildebrand, creative partner at Here Design, of pasta shapes, arranged in bold and simple patterns printed in black and white.

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Identity Art & Architecture St Luc Institutes Brussels

Clean, simple and elegant were the first words which came to mind when I saw the identity for the Art & Architecture of the Saint-Luc Institutes in Brussels.

The consistent use of typography, the amount of white space and the small details are a big inspiration for all minimalist minded people. You can download a digital version of magazine #11 for some more inspiration.

The identity for this Bi-annual magazine is designed by the French graphic designer Carine Collin who lives and works in Brussels. She has a good portfolio and her website is also a clean piece of art. I think I am in love!

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Konst & Teknik

Swedish graphic design company Konst & Teknik can count work for Mono Kultur magazine in its impressive portfolio.

Particularly mentionable here are the book covers for Deleuze och mångfaldens veck and The Rest is Silence, and the extremely useful CopyPasteCharacter—an online tool giving easy access to typographic characters—that negates the need to learn alt codes and other such shortcuts. What a marvellously simple time saver.

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Katja Gretzinger

Katja Gretzinger is a graphic designer living and working in Berlin, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland. She runs a small graphic design studio, aptly named the Katja Gretzinger Graphic Design Studio.

Her work shows a great eye for typography, composition and the power of colour.

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