OUGD405- The making of Edible Type

Our first task was to make a group with who create/design a edible type.

The Making of Edible Type

Christmas Brief

The contest

You are required to create a piece of edible type that resembles an existing letterform.

Can be created from a bought food substances then crafted into a typographical form or lovingly made by your own fair hands.

You can work independently or as part of a team.

Should be supported by a broad range of visual investigation in the form of design sheets and notebooks.

Mandatory requirements:

Type must be manufactured/adapted in a sanitary environment.

Inside characteristics/ outside characteristics (5 points each)

We then decided on the day where all of us could go 'food shopping' to get the items we needed.
Vedika, Paayal and I decided to combine 2 different flavours; a chocolate fudge and red velvet.
We then moved to baking both cakes.
We made the chocolate fudge first and decided that we would use this one as the top layer, expanding the size.
We left it to cool down and moved to baking the next cake.
We used strawberry yogurt as another flavour to help us stick both cakes together instead of having to use up the icing.
Once both cakes were done and situated one on top of the other, we moved to the top pattern.
We had realized we should have cut the cake into the shape we had first through of before putting the icing on. This was challenging but we managed to do it right with the use of a ruler and a knife.
We then moved to designing the type and the decoration.
We used white chocolate stars and small edible candy balls that looked Christmassy.
We thought the message was clear to wish everyone a 'Merry Christmas'.
We left the cake in the fridge, ready for our next day at university. Ready to be shown and tried.

Here are selections of pictures taken during our baking afternoon

 
 

 

On our way to university, we thought the best idea to carry our cake was to set a plate on top of the cake already holding the cake and cover it with a plastic bag.

We managed to walk to university and protect our cake from the wind and rain, just to find out once we were already there that our type had smooched with the plate we had set on top.

We ran to the canteen to ask for knifes to try fixing the type, but they were too big and would cause more harm than help us. We then tried with the coffee stirrers and we managed to save our cake.

Our type wasn’t as good as we had imagined but we had faith in our creativity and innovating flavour.

For the festive brief, we decided to use the ideas of dice and cubes to then create a typeface on.

The original idea came from a German children’s birthday cake book that Vedika had shown us.

We researched into caked with a similar design, however all of the examples we came across with had dots or numbers on representing the shape or object they were trying to show.

Idea generation and Sketches: