THE NEW SCOTS COOKBOOK
Category: Exhibition Visual
Curator: Fan(Yvonne) Zhao
Contributor: Wednesday Women’s Group of Milk Cafe
Collaborator: Alia Mobarik, Asya Dall’Agata, Yucheng(Erin) Chen
Visual Design: Yutong(Ivy) Chen
THE NEW SCOTS COOKBOOK is about Recipes Sharing and cultural exchange with the Wednesday Women’s Group of Milk Cafe. The project features three artists to focus on the living situations of a small group of female New Scots of Milk Cafe via the lens of food, life Journeys and culture through hospitality. With a series of creative workshops in Milk Cafe, the curator seeks to foster understanding and cultural appreciation by engaging Wednesday Women's Group in collaborative recipe sharing, food preparation, communal dining experiences, and oral history telling.
《新苏格兰人食谱》是一个关于Milk Cafe“周三妇女小组”进行食谱分享和文化交流的项目。该项目由三位艺术家通过食物、生命之旅和好客文化的视角，关注Milk Cafe一小群新苏格兰女性的生活状况。 策展人希望通过在Milk Cafe举办一系列创意工作坊，让 “周三妇女小组 ”参与食谱分享、食物制作、集体用餐体验和口述历史，从而促进理解和文化交流。
As a visual designer, my role was to collate the results of a series of workshops and visualise them into a publication, as well as designing posters for the launch of publications and documentaries. Among the series of workshops curated by Yvonne, artist Asya's workshop was about the Italian food Bomboloni, a snack made from deep-fried dough, and I set the main visual tone to be the burnt yellow colour of this street food. Yvonne wanted to "give this publication as a gift to everyone who participated in the workshops", so we decided to package the whole publication like a bakery takeaway box, with the idea of making the publication itself a small exhibition. In terms of materials, I chose visually uniform but slightly different recycled papers for several different workshops, hoping that the texture of these papers would bring a handmade feeling.
作为视觉设计师，我负责整理一系列工作坊的成果，并将其视觉化为出版物，并设计展览主视觉。在策展人策划的一系列工作坊中，艺术家Asya的工作坊是关于意大利食物Bomboloni，这是一种由面团油炸而来的小吃，于是我将主视觉的色调定为这种街头食物的焦黄色。策展人希望“将这个出版物作为礼物送给每一个workshop的参与者”，于是我们决定让整个出版物包装像一个面包店外带盒子，设计理念就是让出版物本身成为一个小型展览。在材料上，我为几个不同的workshop选择了视觉统一但有细微差别的环保纸张，希望这些纸的纹理带给人手工的感觉。
