Visual Storytelling with Food: Designing New Perspectives
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Discover how to use food as a tool to inspire positive change by exploring creative and critical thinking techniques
Critical thinking and food design are at the heart of culinary innovation and awareness. Through her sculptures, photography and designs, artist Nicole Vindel aims to raise awareness to shift narratives about how we eat and our relationship with the environment. She is the founder of Food Design Nation and Random Happiness Art Collective, and has collaborated with institutions like El Celler de Can Roca, Foodcultura, and Tercer Paraíso.
In this course, she guides you through the critical thinking and creative process of reshaping our relationship with food and building a better, more sustainable tomorrow. Discover how to build the framework of a food artifact with a fresh perspective, a sustainable design, and a compelling visual narrative.
Meet Nicole Vindel, artist and creative director, and your teacher for this course. She shares her creative journey that led her to found Food Design Nation as well as Random Happiness Art Collective. Hear about her influences and the sources of inspiration that have motivated her along the way.
Start by getting an overview of the history of tableware and food tools, and explore their form, function and symbolism. Decide on the food artifact you want to develop and collect references of variations and designs. Then Nicole walks you through a case study about food narratives to inspire your artifact design.
Create a mindmap to unleash the potential of your design and build a connection with your object. Delve deeper into the brainstorming process by analyzing your mindmap and extracting relevant insights to further shape your design. Nicole then guides you through asking yourself the right questions to tackle potential design problems.
Develop the transformative narrative of your food artifact by creating an “iteration grid”. Nicole guides you through the process of adding meaning to your ideas by drawing them out. Finalize the narrative behind your piece by exploring writing techniques to help encapsulate the depth of your ideas.
