Easy Cookbooks

Editorial Design

A stack of three hardcover cookbooks. The top book, Easy Sea Cookbook, is fully visible, showcasing a design that merges clean typography with striking food imagery. A photograph of a pile of fresh clams is placed over the two ‘Os’ in "Book," visually interacting with the text.

Developing the editorial design for a series of three cookbooks, balancing aesthetic appeal with usability.

Collaborating with a chef to design her cookbook series, with the goal of clarifying recipe instructions and enhance the cooking experience for readers, while maintaining a visually engaging layout and a cohesive, distinctive identity across the volumes.

The inner cover endpaper of the Easy Vegan Cookbook features a green background with hand-drawn white illustrations of fruits and vegetables, such as mushrooms, strawberries, artichokes, onion, etc.An open spread from the Easy Vegan Cookbook The left-hand page features a full-page photograph of a vegetable-based dish, while the right-hand page presents the recipe with structured typography, green accents, and numbered steps for easy readability.

While maintaining a unified design system, each book in the series was distinguished by its own colour scheme and imagery, creating variety with a consistent identity.

The covers combine high-quality food photography with bold, large-scale typography, allowing imagery to interact directly with the title text — reinforcing the connection between visuals and the tactile nature of cooking. To distinguish the volume, each adopted a different colour scheme (Easy Sea in blue, Easy Meat in red, and Easy Vegan in green), paired with imagery of ingredients that reflect their theme.

A hardcover cookbook with a green and white cover design, titled Easy Vegan Cookbook. It features red pepper placed on top of the large text 'Cook Book', with its stem curving into one of the ‘Os’ in "Cook," subtly interacting with the typography.The Easy Meat Cookbook is shown laid open upside-down, revealing both the front and back cover. On the front cover, large modern typography displays the title, with a fresh cut of raw meat placed over a portion of the word "Cookbook", with the edges of the meat wrap around the thin outer lines of the two ‘Os’ in "Book".

While prioritising clarity and functionality, the inner page design subtly recall the cover’s interplay of imagery and text.

Recipe pages are structured within a clean grid system, with sections and numbered callouts guiding the reader through each step. Echoing the cover’s design concept, the inner layouts feature layered content with subtle interactive elements and imagery — reflecting the hands-on nature of cooking and aiming to create pages that are both practical and visually engaging.

An open spread from the Easy Sea Cookbook. The left-hand page features a plated dish with scallops, vegetables, and sauce, while the right-hand page presents the recipe layout with elegant typography, and numbered steps for easy readability.A step-by-step instructional spread from the Easy Meat Cookbook. The left-hand page features a close-up of a breaded dish, while the right-hand page shows a lis and pictures of ingredients.