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Graphic Design Professional Cycle Project - 1st year
Presentation of the project
How do you translate a cooking recipe into a simple, clear and universal visual language?
It was around this question that the 1st year Graphic Designstudents developed a series of illustrated recipe cards, designed in the form of pictograms. The aim was to make cooking accessible to everyone through a synthetic graphic representation that would overcome language barriers.
Through this project, the students explored the ability of graphic design to simplify information while retaining its legibility and effectiveness.
Subject of the exercise
Each student had to choose a simple recipe to make, then analyse its various components: ingredients, utensils and preparation stages.
Using this as a basis, they designed a schematic graphic representation, based on a system of pictograms to give a visual representation of :
- the ingredients
- the actions (chopping, cooking, mixing, etc.),
- the progress of the recipe.
The challenge was to produce an immediate, intuitive and explicit reading experience, with as little text as possible.
Pedagogical objectives
The aim of this project was to introduce students to the fundamentals of visual language and graphic simplification.
They were required to :
- analyse information to extract the essential points,
- translate concrete elements into simple, understandable graphic signs,
- develop visual coherence between different pictograms,
- experiment with the transition from traditional drawing to a synthetic graphic form.
The exercise was also designed to reinforce their ability to design effective visual systems to enhance comprehension.
Techniques used
To produce their recipe cards, the students combined :
- traditional drawing (sketches, graphic research),
- digital formatting and vectorisation tools.
The students showed great creativity in this project, taking us on a culinary journey through their graphic worlds: ramen, Thai cuisine, bibimbap, but also burger or ratatouille… all recipes revisited with inventiveness and a sense of detail.
