Urban Cocktails

Silver metallic printed cover photo with silver foil blocked title

I spent some time a few months ago designing and editing a new book about cocktails – Urban Cocktails - written by Georgios Andritsos. The concept was to produce a book that was small and compact, modern, stylish, elegant and informative. Phew, quite a list and a small size to fit it all into. Most of the photography had already been shot by Anne Ogundipe in Norway, leaving me to source a couple of additional images and then get on and edit the text down and design the whole thing. It was a great project which I really enjoyed, and working with Georgios was wonderful.

We  ended up with a compact book of great recipes, silver metallic printed cover with silver foil blocked title, great page layouts with beautiful images and all-in-all a book that’s a great object in its own right as well as a great reference for mixing drinks. It’s now selling on amazon.co.uk here…

Urban Cocktails

… and I’m determined to try a few of the recipes out over Christmas and the New Year. The book design was a great challenge on this project and fun to do as it’s very different to what usually comes my way. It’s something I hope to get the chance to do again. especially as the publisher decided to go with a fully printed packing box for retailers to purchase – nothing a designer likes more than final details!

 

"it was great fun working with beautiful images and creative free rein"

These just added to the feeling that the book is really something special

 

 

Posted by Karl : 20:11:2009

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Welcome to the new F7 Creative blog. Here we will attempt to keep you up-to-date with all things new in the design world, not just our own new work! As it’s early doors at the moment there’s not too much to see, but keep checking back and we should have lots of great info to feast upon soon!