Crocked Cook: New label roughs

Fabric: Inspiration and material for a new project.

Work Space: Winter Wonderland

Big Idea: Conflict Kitchen

As described conflictkitchen.org

Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every four months to highlight another country. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration is augmented by events, performances, and discussion about the culture, politics, and issues at stake with each country we focus on.

Through food, wrappers, programming, and daily interactions with customers, Conflict Kitchen creates an ongoing platform for first-person discussion of international conflict, culture, and politics. In addition, the project introduces a rotating venue for culinary and cultural diversity in Pittsburgh, as future iterations will focus on North Korea, Venezuela, and more.

Crooked Cook: Name, Product, and Package Design.

The images below are the current packaging I have

developed for this product. However I am working

on labels that accentuate the individual ingredients

so there is a visual difference between the three

unique flavors.

Chatter Shatter: Apricot Current

Firecracker: Cherry Chili

Roots & Trees: Citrus Yam.

Images Below were the first set of comps.

Things I Love

Image found at thecitycradle.com

Napa Valley Posters

Inspiration- Mustwich

National Geographic: 7 Billion

Listening To

run run run- phoenix album: Alphabetical

lisztomania- phoenix album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Creative Use of Materials

Glenbow Museum

Linocut

My Sketchbook

Things I Love

Why Kissing Frogs?

While watching a lecture Bruce Mau gave at ACAD discussing his Massive Change traveling exhibit he showed a clip of an interview with a man named Dean Kamen, whose company, Deka has developed many revolutionary designs. At one point Dean was discussing his process and used the phrase “kissing frogs” to explain the ever evolving ever changing process that designers go through to get to their final solution. This idea stuck with me and seemed to reflect my own design process so perfectly that I decided to use it as the heading for my blog. Here is to kissing frogs, aka working really hard and tossing around a million ideas before finally developing the perfect solution.

2011: A Fresh Start

New Years resolution.... actually blog. Four days late and already behind the ball. This blog will follow me through me last semester of my last year at Alberta College of Art and Design.