Editorial & Print · 2025
Dessert First
An editorial cookbook system, typography-led front to back.
What this project is
A personal editorial project: a full cookbook cover and interior layout system, exploring how a recipe page stays functional — ingredients, method, tips — while still feeling like a designed publication rather than a template.
The challenge
Recipe pages have to work as instructions first. The challenge was building a layout hierarchy confident enough to feel editorial without ever making a home cook hunt for step three.
Creative direction
A badge-style logo anchors the cover against full-bleed food photography. Inside, a consistent two-column grid separates ingredients from method, a warm gold is reserved for wayfinding moments like 'Quick Tips', and every recipe sits opposite a full-page photograph — so the book reads as much as it cooks.
How it came together
Cover to spread
The badge logo, cover photography, and interior recipe layout, shown together as a working system rather than isolated pages.
The real interior, page by page
This is the actual cookbook file — scroll through it below the way a reader would on their phone.
Scroll to page through the real interior
A layout system built to be read as closely as it's cooked from.
