The Bookery Cook

Client

The Bookery Cook

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Brief

Create an innovative way to search through and display recipes from a designer cook book.

Strategy

Use fridge magnets marked with ingredients to interface with an interactive recipe-generating fridge.

Skills

XHTML Strict, Cross-Browser Compliancy, CSS1 & CSS2, JavaScript, jQuery, ActionScript 3, Adobe Flex, MXML, Adobe DreamWeaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, PHP 5, MySQL, MVC programming, Object Orientated Programming, .htaccess, Reactivision Position Tracking, P.I.C.T.I.V.E., Wireframe Design

Solution

The Bookery Cook is an interactive work that brings the household cookbook to life. The work extends itself beyond paper and places itself upon the hub of the home, the refrigerator. By drawing on the themes of the timeless family recipe book you are able to browse through recipes by matching ingredients together. Magnetic tiles marked with ingredients allow you to find a recipe based on a combination of ingredients.

Exhibits

  • Pecha Kucha Vol. 19, 2010
  • 4C Arts' Collective: SHOOT!
  • Glow 32 on Burnett Land
  • Shape of Things to Come
  • This Way Up 2009