To
conclude this module, from obtaining relevant research and information I feel that I have
successfully achieved what was set out to complete, as I had designed and
created two double page spreads and a front and back cover for the children’s
cookbook. My user testing questionnaire had ensured me that children would find
my designs fun and their parents would want to buy the cookbook for them. Finally,
I am very happy with my final designs and I believe that they represent the
sustainability and provide important information about sustainability with
ingredients to the children and parents.
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Monday, 5 May 2014
Research - Questionnaire
Questionnaire
This questionnaire has been designed to find out what
children think about my designs for ‘The family sustainable cookbook’ and
whether they would want to read the book, and whether the parents would want to
purchase the book for their children.
Children 8+
Do you like the book?
Yes No
Would you want to colour in on the
pages?
Yes No
Is the book fun and colourful?
Yes No
What is your favourite bit of the book?
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Parents
Are these designs effective enough
to engage the attention of your child?
Yes No
If No why?
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Do you think the small flap of information
if enough to teach the children about sustainability in these recipes?
Yes No
If No why?
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How do you think these designs
could be improved?
Yes No
If Yes why?
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Would you buy this book for your child/children?
Yes No
If No why?
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Responses
I had 20 questionnaires back. With the responses I focused
on the majority of the answers that were similar and put them all down below:
Children 8+
Do you like the book?
The majority answer was –YES
Would you want to colour in on the
pages?
The majority answer was –YES
Is the book fun and colourful?
The majority answer was –YES
What is your favourite bit of the book?
The majority answer was – The colouring in bit
Parents
Are these designs effective enough
to engage the attention of your child?
The majority answer was –YES
Do you think the small flap of information
if enough to teach the children about sustainability in these recipes?
The majority answer was –YES
And most stated yes because if I had more on the pages they would get
confused and bored
How do you think these designs
could be improved?
The majority answer was – No
And most stated that their children would enjoy the pages as they were
fun and bright
Would you buy this book for your child/children?
The majority answer was –YES
Research
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Your-Children-to-Eat-their-Vegetables-and-Fruits
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The websites
above explores how to get children to eat their vegetables, and with my book I had
chosen to reflect vegetables and fruits in my front cover to make them look fun
and colourful so that children would want to know what they are and how they
taste.
My hand rendered images for my front cover
Research
http://www.simplebites.net/easy-recipes-that-kids-can-cook/
http://www.thekidscookmonday.org/about/kitchen-tasks-for-different-age-groups/
http://www.mumsnet.com/food-content/teach-your-child-to-cook
http://www.thekidscookmonday.org/about/kitchen-tasks-for-different-age-groups/
http://www.mumsnet.com/food-content/teach-your-child-to-cook
The websites
above explore how to get children to cook, how to involve them in making dinner
and also showing them how to make treats.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Added Extras
Design - Information on double page spreads
In order to provide information
to the children about where their food comes from I had added a flap that they
could lift up which contains information about where I had gotten the ingredient’s
from along with a little member-able quite saying ‘Think Locally’. On the front
of the flap I have added a hand rendered image of cherries to represent the recipe.
In order to provide information
to the children about where their food comes from I had added a flap that they
could lift up which contains information about where I had gotten the ingredient’s
from along with a little member-able quite saying ‘Think Locally’. On the front
of the flap I have added a hand rendered image of bread to represent the recipe.
Sunday, 13 April 2014
E-Books
These E-Books are available from – Reading Oceans – these are just some
of the cookbooks they offer for children. 
Cover, Spine & Back - Prototype 2
I chose to use hand drawn imagery and use a wash of water colour. I also changed the name to 'The family sustainable cookbook'. I also wanted a small plain border going around the book so I added that and the spine would be the same colour of the border. I chose for this to be simple but colourful, that's why I used a various amount of colours for the fruits and vegetables.
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Research Task - London Book Fair
Source three different innovations
1. Kitchen Sticky Notes – helpful notes for
the home cook
The design of the front cover of this
book (full of sticky notes) is very effective and different, as it uses different
kitchen utensils in block colours to make up the cover. I picked this up because
of the simplicity of the cover with a bold purple pot in the middle with the text
on which I think works very well. I think in regards to this being suitable for
children I think it could be as its simple and easy to read, but I think it is
aimed at adults.
2. Chocolate – 50 easy recipes
I was immediately drawn to these
books as I found that with the front covers being an image of the main
ingredient in the books amazing! I think these books are brilliant as the books
just contain 50 recipes based on the front cover image, so you know exactly what
you’re getting from the books. Again I think this could be aimed at children
with a giant chocolate bar book but I think when it comes to the recipes they
would need to be varied in the book.
3. Junior chef – Kids can cook
I chose to look at this as not only is it a recipe
book for children it also comes with an apron, hat and spatula for the children
which I know children would love as then they would be a ‘Junior Chef’. This could
be very appealing to all children because they would want to dress up in the outfit
and cook, but with children 8+ it may seem childish to them so they may not
have any interest in dressing up.
My Images from
the fair:
London Book Fair 2014
Research - E-Books
Growing Vegetable
Soup by Lois Ehlert
This E-Book
shows the process of growing vegetables for a vegetable soup and then at the
end it shows the recipe of how to cook the soup. Bright bold colours have been
used, easy to read and very child friendly.
Kid Cooking
Activity E-Books by Kids Cooking Activities
These Kids Cooking Activities E-books will provide multiple
activities and lessons for kids who love to cook. Their books are information
b0ooks for children to learn about food facts to how to cook.
Fancy Fruity Chocolate Bites - Prototype 2
I chose to use
hand drawn imagery and 1 photograph of the final outcome. The children will be able
to colour in the hand drawn images. I got rid of the other photos as I thought
that it would look better with just an instruction page with some hand drawn images.
I chose for this to be simple as I want the children to add all the colour on the
page by colouring in the images. So I would also provide a pack of crayons with
this book. I also changed the recipe from using strawberries to cherries.
Easy Cheesy Eggy Bread - Prototype 2
I chose to use
hand drawn imagery and 1 photograph of the final outcome. The children will be able
to colour in the hand drawn images. I got rid of the other photos as I thought
that it would look better with just an instruction page with some hand drawn images.
I chose for this to be simple as I want the children to add all the colour on the
page by colouring in the images. So I would also provide a pack of crayons with
this book.
Saturday, 29 March 2014
Prototypes
Cover, Spine &
Reverse
The art style that I was trying to go for was to keep
it very simple and colourful, as I want this book to promote fun cooking I
think that having the fun colours on the front and back would make parents pick
this up to buy for their children and with the different coloured type.
The type again I want it to be fun and mainly readable
for the children, the style I want it to be different on each page so that it
makes things different and not all the same, that is why for each part of the
title I have used different types.
I hope this style does aim towards children 8+ with
the slightly detailed images but fun looking colours and type.
At this point I think that I need to add some doodles
and also add more to the reverse, included information about what’s in the book.
Rough
colour idea of the two pages spreads
Fancy Fruity Chocolate Bites
The art style that I was trying to incorporate into
this double page spread was simple and clean and fancy. I would like to add
more hand rendered images either of characters or cooking doodles so that the
children will find it fun. For the title I want to make it fun that is why I used two different types, the rest of the type is simple and plains so that it is readable.
I hope this style does aim towards children 8+ with the slightly detailed images but fun looking colours and type.
For this spread I feel that I can make it fun by adding some doodles and possibly pull out games. I will not look to change the instructions part as I want it to be straight forward so that it easily read by both child and adult. + add pull outs to show where the ingredients came from!!!!
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Easy Cheesy Eggy Bread
The art style that I was going for here was simple and
bright. But I think that this spread may be too simple as it has a lot of empty
space which I could fill with hand rendered images of fun characters. I used the same type that I had used for my first example because I really think it works with the images. Again the rest of the type is simple so that it’s readable.
I hope this style does aim towards children 8+ with the slightly detailed images but fun looking colours and type.
I have a lot to improve on at the moment for this spread, because at the moment it is very boring so in order to make it fun for the children I may add some doodles and possibly pull out games.
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Research
Cultural food
Indian Sweets – Jalebi
Putting this recipe in the children’s cook book could give a
cultural twist to the book.
A Jalebi is a sweet very popular in Asia; these sweets are
made for occasions such as wedding and parties but can be made whenever. They are
normally served warm so that you can get the full flavour; it is a sweet sugary
treat. They are made by deep frying the mixture,
the recipe is:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups self-raising
flour
- 1/2 tsp
baking powder
- 1 cup
yogurt
- Vegetable/canola/sunflower
cooking oil for deep frying
- 1 cup
sugar
- Few
strands saffron
- 1/4 tsp
cardamom powder
- 2 drops
orange food colour
- 2 tbsps
rose water
Preparation:
- Mix the
flour, baking powder and yogurt into a batter and keep aside for 24 hours
to ferment.
- Pour
batter into a ketchup dispensing bottle.
- To make
sugar syrup: Melt the sugar with the rose water and boil to get a one
thread consistency. To check for one thread consistency, carefully dip the
tip of your index finger into the syrup, touch your finger and thumb
together and gently tease apart. If one thread is formed between your
finger and thumb the syrup is done.
- Turn
off fire, add the saffron strands and cardamom and stir well.
- Heat
the oil in a deep wok-like dish. To test for the right temperature, drop a
small amount of batter into the oil. If it sizzles and rises to the top of
the oil, the oil is hot enough. Keep the flame on medium at all times to
ensure all round cooking of the jalebis.
- Now
hold the ketchup dispenser over the hot oil and squeeze the batter into
the oil into a wiggly, randomly coiled circle. Squeeze out several at a
time.
- Fry
till light golden and then remove and put directly into the sugar syrup.
- Allow
to soak for 2-3 minutes and then remove.
- Serve warm.
Sunday, 23 March 2014
Rough Colour Designs
- Need to add type (think of a title)
- Needs to be more colourful and fun
- Needs to be more colourful and fun
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