Recipes: Tried & Visualized

This project is a zine of different food recipes tried and visualized by students in the Information Design class at the Ohio State University. The class project explored visual representations and visualization techniques for communicating food and the process of making food. The design process took the user-centered design approach to help designers understand how recipes were used, analyze the recipe components, and synthesize structural frameworks to visually present the food ingredients and the food-making process.

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The design of the zine intends to emphasize the unique practice and the characteristics of different dishes and share the joy of preparing food and eating food. Each recipe is labeled with a distinct key for readers to easily see the cooking time, the origin of the dish, the types of the dish, and the difficulty level of making the dish. The zine also includes a visualized summary showing where these recipes originated from, the keywords that represent the characteristics of the dishes, and the various cooking experiences from the chef designers.

The recipes were selected, tested, and designed by 13 undergraduate junior and senior Data Analytics students of The Ohio State University. They are (in alphabetical order): Zoe Blumenfeld, Joseph Canova, Marcus Horton, Xidan Kou, Kendall Laflin, Christina Li, Ryan Marshall, Caroline Pier, James Ptak, Eddie Tassy, Aroon Tcholakov, Noah Teller, and Stephanie Wittpenn.