This project was a challenge of creating a dual-spread, bleed booklet for personal favorite recipes! The challenge with this book was incorporating the dark color scheme and vibrant imagery. I knew I wanted to use traditional red and dark colors for this Chinese cookbook. I also had to make everything easily legible. Using Photoshop, I created custom composites for each and every background of each page. By doing this I had full control of where the content would go and how it would be spaced. I also used Illustrator to create the vector imagery like the dragon, lamps, chopsticks etc., and compiled it all together with InDesign.

Chinese New Year Cookbook Cover

Chinese New Year Cookbook table of contents

Chinese New Year Cookbook spicy tofu dish recipe

Chinese New Year Cookbook stir fry and spring rolls recipes

Chinese New Year Cookbook fresh ingredients list