Special feature: Graphic dining
This special feature, "The Graphic Dining Table," is an à la carte introduction to critical graphic works about food or that use food as a springboard within the context of modern graphic design.
In recent years, with globalization, interest in food as a culture (rather than gourmet food) has increased, and in the culinary world, the idea of viewing cooking from an engineering perspective is becoming more prevalent.
At the same time, in the fields of art and design, there has been a rise in projects, workshops, and printed materials that use food as a conceptual device.
These contemporary trends are not independent of each other, but rather, as Takayama Hiroshi's vivid theory of modern table culture has shown, they seem to be connected by the spiritual history of modernity, in which "table" went from "board" to "table" and then to "diagram," giving rise to electronic table culture (tabletop, desktop, tablet).
Perhaps the secret to deciphering this structure lies in the graphics, in which design and food are analogically connected to each other through the medium of the dining table.
This special feature was conceived and produced in collaboration with Warren Taylor, a designer and researcher with a deep interest in the connections between cultural activities and graphic design practice.
The table that organizes this special issue describes an ellipse with two foci: his interest and mine.
Although we would like to look at examples from non-Western countries at another time, we hope that this special feature will serve as a window that opens not to a rational worldview represented by perfect circles, but to the dynamic and complementary world symbolized by ellipses.
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IDEA No.378 July 2017 issue | Seibundo Shinkosha Co., Ltd. (seibundo-shinkosha.net)