Week 4: Recipe Book

I've been working this week on a recipe book for a local dietician to use for a presentation at an elementary school. There were only a few requirements for this project:
1) It's going to be printed on 8.5 x 11 paper and folded in half to make a book
2) It has to be in black and white
3) Of course, it has to include all the information I was given.
The book's actually turned out to be longer than I had originally thought; it's going to be about fourteen pages with the cover. I was given ten recipes, two "top ten" sort of lists, and another two pages of other information to be included. Each recipe and the two lists will get their own pages, and the other things will be added to the bottom of pages where they will fit. That the book has to be in black and white and that it is for elementary school age children and their parents has helped shape the design.

This is the cover and back of the book, the front being on the left so it will fold right with a little logo on the back. The black blocks around titles is something that I carried throughout the book.

These are the first and last pages of the book, which is where I decided to put the lists. The amount of information that needs to go on each page and the requirement that everything be in black and white prohibited a lot of graphics. Instead, I concentrated the design on working with text alone instead of trying to incorporate a lot of graphics that would just make the design busy.

These are two of the pages of recipes. Carrying on the black title box on the front and the title boxes on the list pages, I've made title boxes for the names of each of the recipes. The little extra bits of information will go on the bottom of pages like these that have room at the bottom, probably in outlined boxes.

This is the middle spread of the book. The recipe on the right is supposed to be the featured recipe, which is why it's in a black box, in reverse from the rest of the book.