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Spice Temple
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Daniel New
Category
Best Designed Cookbook
Year
2016
Publisher
Lantern an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia

About the Designer

Daniel works closely with publishers and authors to capture unique stories and bring their visions to life. He was previously art director and designer at Lantern, Penguin Books, where he worked for a decade with experts in food, lifestyle and design. He is an award-winning designer with over 20 years’ experience. Daniel was a founding member of the Australian Book Designers Association and in 2017 he founded ‘New Studio’ in Surry Hills, Sydney.

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Design Rationale

The restaurant has a dark, spot-lit, professional-luxe, Bladerunner vibe. Cover: Aimed to encapsulate the same play between ultra-modern and tradition. Primary colours on a sharp vector grid sits somewhere between circuitry and Chinese pattern. Colouring the fore-edge helps strengthen the book as an object. Text: Many of the recipes had distinct stages, which were almost little recipes in themselves, so the ingredients and method are designed to sit next to each other in their parts. I like the visual result of this system, too. Again, aiming for a feeling thatss contemporary and traditional and making the recipes easy to follow.

Details
Dimensions
232 x 308 mm
No. pages
296
Special finishes
Debossing on the cover. Painted fore-edges.
Credits
Internal Design
Daniel New
Photography
Earl Carter
Illustration
Daniel New (cover)
Typesetting
Post Pre-Press Group
Printing
1010 Printing
Author
Neil Perry