Hasta La Ideas

Parallel to the growing appreciation of food, we’re seeing more and more designers tackle the issue of how and what we eat, from product design to intensive research to enviable interiors. In this spirit of food-related creativity, a new London-based publication called The Gourmand offers a highly visual yet brilliantly understated journal of food and culture, something like Apartamento‘s foodie cousin. “The Gourmand was born as a means to share this exciting cultural shift and to celebrate food as a catalyst for creativity.”

Our friends at Sight Unseen highlighted perhaps the most relevant feature from the debut issue, which is available now: the collaboration between art director Jamie Brown and photographer Luke Kirwan. Brown’s expository text for “A 20th Century Palate” complements the compelling imagery to a tee: “There are few things that rival my insatiable hunger for colour and pattern, my appetite for food is one. Combining the two would surely go down well.”

The concept was born—to represent design movements of the 20th century through specially arranged plates of appropriate foods, finished with hand cut patterned paper table cloth backgrounds.

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