Due to the vast amount of obscure dimsum dishes that often puts people off trying it in the first place, I wanted to dissect the information and deliver it in a more approachable and interesting manner. To achieve this, I felt that the first things to do was not to use images of the dishes for 2 main reasons; 1. because quite often it doesn't look very good at all, particularly in such a small format that I have decided on using, the images would just make the whole piece look way too busy while not actually doing the dishes any justice, and secondly because I wanted to focus on the ingredients and the methods of cooking more which makes dimsum so different to everything else, which images wouldn't really help describe. I decided to treat the dimsum dishes as information only and delivering the details about them in a easy to understand yet interesting way, therefore went for an infographics approach, distilling the information and delivering it an innovative yet functional way,
With these initial designs, I focused on using simple shapes to categorise the dishes to start with. Each shape represents a different format of cooking which includes: steaming, frying and roast/baking. As I developed and adjusted the layout more, I start incorporated a few more methods of categorising and delivering more detailed information about each dish. these include the lines inside, which represent how many pieces will be served with the 'X' representing a divide of 4 therefore 4 pieces etc. And finally to include the nutrition information, I started incorporated a few colours to represent the main ingredients used for each dish. I think the layout at the moment works quite well. They look interesting as a set while being quite easy to understand once a key has been embedded into the poster/booklet side of it.
I think the general design direction of this is going quite well so far; although the main concern at the moment is how well it works with the booklet side of it. At the moment they do seem quite separated, so I will have to develop both side of things to achieve a consistent outcome for this. I think there are many alterations that need to be made, mostly with the order of the information, hierarchy and the type treatments, I think I need to pay more attention to the detail of the type and the order of where they appear on the list. I also think that I need to add a few more finer details to it to make it more refined.
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