An index documenting cake across culture, history, and celebration.
Timeline
3 months
Role
Publication Design, Production
For
Anyone that has eaten cake
Born from a summer spent cake decorating, Crumbs blends cookbook design, bakery photography, and expert voices to explore cake as both joy and symbol—of status, memory, identity, and love. Across history, cake has signified celebration, status, memory, and love, marking life’s milestones from joy to mortality. These fragments come together to reveal something essential about who we are.
Crumbs invites you to savor these fragments and perhaps take a bite of something unexpectedly profound.
The blue, red, and yellow palette draws from icing dyes and the gold boards cakes are displayed on.
Spreads highlighting cakes I made while working as a cake decorator, woven throughout the book.
A hand-piped icing cover that references Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, scanned and screenprinted by hand in gold.
