Information Design - Project 1

  Project 1-  Infographic Poster

MIB

For this project we have to study a video, break down the preparation and the cooking process into a poster. We have to capture each Grandma’s personality and unique dish identity in our poster as part of the narrative structure.

The Grandma that I chose for this Project is named Angela from Genova who makes ravioli.

Figure 1.0 - Pasta Grannies Youtube Video

Breakdown

"Tuku" (braised whole piece of beef)

- Chop up carrot, onion and a stick of celery, strips the needles of a rosemary twig and blends then with the vegetables.

- Fries this mixture in olive oil with bay leaves and pine nuts

- Once the vegetables are soft, she adds in the beef.

- She mixes a tablespoon of tomato concentrate with a glass of red wine.

- Pours the mixture over the beef and lets the alcohol evaporate.

- Adds 3 cloves into the mixture

- Adds a jar of tomato Passata and leaves the beef to braise slowly (for at-least 3 hours)

Pasta dough

- She uses 500 grams of flour, 2 eggs and a pinch of salt. And around 130 ml of water (measured by eye).

- She kneads the dough until smooth and leaves the dough to rest, covered for 30 minutes.

Ravioli Filling

- She removed the mid-rib from the borage leaves

- She boils them in water with some escarole lettuce. They need to simmer for at-least 5 minutes.

- She fries some chopped onion and carrot in oil and butter with some rosemary.

- Crushes 2 bay leaves and adds them to the pan

- She uses a mixture of pork sausage and veal for the filling, by chopping and frying them with the vegetables.

- She drains the borage and escarole and squeezes them dry, before adding them to the meat.

- She minces half a clove of garlic and a table spoon of chopped marjoram.

- She then adds the meat mixture to the food processor, a little bit at a time, to form a paste.

- She beats 5 eggs and mixes this with a 100 grams of parmesan.

- She stirs this into the minced meat and seasons with a teaspoon of salt 

- Adds breadcrumbs to stiffen the mixture 

Assemble

- She rolls out the dough, makes long strips using machine.

- She uses a ravioli mould, but flouring the mould and lays half the dough over it.

- She fills each form with a tea spoon of filling

- Lays the other half of the dough over the filled mould, pats down dough to exclude the air

- Flour the mould and turn it over, and uses a pastry cutter to create the ravioli.

- Cooks the ravioli in boiling salted water and cooks for around 5 minutes and drains them thoroughly.

- She grates parmesan.

-The reduced braised beef creates the sauce.

-She dresses the cooked ravioli with sauce and plenty of parmesan.

Mood board

Figure 1.1 - Mood board

Layout Sketch

Figure 1.2 - Sketching

Figure 1.3 - Sketching

Figure 1.4 - Sketching

Illustration

I started with illustrating each step in order by dividing each ingredient a tools in separate layers

Figure 1.5 - Illustration

Figure 1.6 - Illustration

Figure 1.7 - Illustration

Figure 1.8 - Illustration

Figure 1.9 - Illustration

After this i added the description of each step and added the necessary illustrations that represented the final outcome of the ravioli. I added took inspiration from Angela's apron and designed it on the plate as well

Final Outcome

Figure 1.10 - Final Outcome

Figure 1.11 - Final Outcome