PAPERPLATES
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It’s All Good
2016-12-22 04:46:00 UTCThe first book on the design “chopping block” is It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great by Gwyneth Paltrow and Julia Turshen. Published in 2013 by Grand Central Life & Style, this might be one of the few cookbooks I bought for… -
A Survey of Cookbooks
2016-08-31 21:56:00 UTCI love to study the typography in cookbooks. Whenever I pick one up I immediately start poring over the type, analyzing the typefaces used; their relationships to one another; the varying levels of hierarchy created with different weights, widths and styles. Designer Charles Eames is quoted as saying: “The details… -
A Love of Cookbooks: Form and Function
2016-08-03 17:26:00 UTCOver the past ten years I have amassed a large collection of cookbooks. At the moment I have approximately 153, give or take a few stragglers on my nightstand. Why do I collect cookbooks? I love them because they combine the intensely practical with the incredibly sensual. Cookbooks celebrate something…