We’ve done some pretty crazy things here for Design Delish. Folks are still talking about our origami durian, and we’ve got even more crazy stuff coming up in the next few months. So we thought we’d scale back a little this time. Simplify. And look at food in yet another different way.
Inspired by the NounProject, we set out to create an iconset of food and drinks. And not just any food and drinks mind you, we wanted to do the stuff we eat and drink here. Afterall, we always try to put some local street cred into our previous design projects. They are always the fun ones (origami durian notwithstanding). This set consisted of 9 monotone icons, which are durian, steak on the grill, lok-lok, karipap, teh tarik, ketupat, nasi lemak, a bowl of noodles and prawns. Initially it started as a simple study to know how far we could simplify food into a minimal visualization- a bit icon-ish, which serves as a simple drawing to supplement textual information.
Nasi lemak is the hardest to simplify, mainly because it has to remain as what you usually see on your plate - rice, sambal, ikan bilis, kacang, cucumber, and chicken. Since creating an icon means creating the most minimal visual representation, nasi lemak detailing is quite tedious. The rest of the icons weren't that hard to do. The challenge was to fit them into the circle scale so everything looks neat and presentable.
Even though most of us are trained to discern certain basic food shapes, I figured it will take more effort to visualize dishes like this. Colours would definitely help, but for this exercise we limit ours to shape and leave it monotone. The process took us about two weeks from picking suitable food, sketching them up, to generating them into vector.
See if you can identify them all!
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