Year: 2024
Publisher: Luster
Scope: book design
Format: 170×220mm
Pages: 200
︎︎︎ lusterpublishing.com
Publisher: Luster
Scope: book design
Format: 170×220mm
Pages: 200
︎︎︎ lusterpublishing.com
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In this book, whose title can be loosely translated as Tasty places, the Centre for Agricultural History (Centrum Agrarische Geschiedenis) examines how the food landscape in the city of Leuven evolved from around 1800 to the present. Aside from interesting essays by various authors, it collects old and new imagery from archives and private collections: photographs of shops, cafés, markets and fairs, historical posters and advertising panels as well as original sketches for shop fronts and signs.
We wanted to create a cheerful book and chose a different colour for each chapter. This colour is repeated in the ‘gutter’ of the book as a graphic element and unifying backdrop. For the cover we were inspired by candy wrappers and combined a nice pink with metallic green foil.
In this book, whose title can be loosely translated as Tasty places, the Centre for Agricultural History (Centrum Agrarische Geschiedenis) examines how the food landscape in the city of Leuven evolved from around 1800 to the present. Aside from interesting essays by various authors, it collects old and new imagery from archives and private collections: photographs of shops, cafés, markets and fairs, historical posters and advertising panels as well as original sketches for shop fronts and signs.
We wanted to create a cheerful book and chose a different colour for each chapter. This colour is repeated in the ‘gutter’ of the book as a graphic element and unifying backdrop. For the cover we were inspired by candy wrappers and combined a nice pink with metallic green foil.
