A Condé Nast publication, bon appétit, uses color in a very intriguing manner creating a symbolic narrative in alignment with the literary narrative. The color schemes are usually a derivative of the images and illustrations that are used in the stories.… Continue Reading
Style & Content Cover Images: The cover images are always about the cover story being showcased in that issue. Being a food & drinks magazine, the cover image is most of the times, an insanely yummy looking dish or drink,… Continue Reading
Along with highlighting graphical elements in my previous post, there is a consistency in the textual elements as well. To begin with, the headline is the textual element that has the maximum line weight followed by the deck line, which… Continue Reading
A Condé Nast publication, bon appétit, uses a pure geometrical shape as its furniture elements. They mostly consist of underlines, small triangles towards an image linking the image and its respective headline for the story associated with it. They also use white… Continue Reading
A Condé Nast publication, bon appétit, the name of the magazine itself sets a fun, cheerful and positive tone. Its literal meaning, ‘good appetite’ or ‘I hope you enjoy your food’ is the broader vision of the publication, which is communicated through… Continue Reading
Since I wasn’t able to find an official color guide for bon appétit, I decided to look at three issues to try to figure out how they approached color and why. What I found is that for the most part,… Continue Reading
As a magazine that prides itself on educating its audience on new restaurants, up-and-coming chefs, recipes, trends and other foodie related things, bon appétit does a good job with the visuals that are paired with the articles. Image use will… Continue Reading
Bon appétit designers seem to enjoy using furniture in various ways to highlight areas for decoration and function on their pages.These would include the usual folio, credit and bylines, section heads/flags, teasers and promos, display headlines and subheads. Here are… Continue Reading
Unlike a number of magazines which tend to stick to a certain groups of typefaces which they use every issue in different ways, it appears that bon appétit has a tendency to feature a different typeface per issue depending on… Continue Reading
For the purpose of analyzing the way in which bon appétit is organized, I will be using the cover, TOC/index and departments/sections for illustration. The Cover Looking at the example above,… Continue Reading