Studio Brief: 'Typogateaux'

For this brief, we have been instructed to make a cake that resembles a letterform or glyph. You could either buy a shop made cake and decorate it or you can bake your own cake and decorate it.

Firstly, I started by coming up with some initial ideas and designs of what I could do my cake on.

Initial Ideas

I decided that the best one I could do would be an idea that would keep the cake simple. The Alphabet blocks idea was suitable as I could keep everything simple and straight to the point whilst the Braille idea was quite original and would mean that I would have very limited decoration to include in my cake.

I did some research into cake possibilities (See Design Context Blog)

After selecting which of the cake ideas to do, I knew that I would need to develop my idea and come up with a visual element as well as choose what colours would be most successful.

Idea Development

This helped me choose what colours to use and what design to go for. I wanted the most traditional aesthetic for my alphabet blocks so that they would be recognizable in a cake state and I knew that sticking to primary colours would aid this. I knew that using the media of cake would make it hard to control the outcome, especially as I am no accomplished baker, so I wanted to make it as simple as possible.

After coming up with possible designs, I attempt to make some cakes in order to be able to try and test cakes that would bake very well (See Design Context Blog for the cakes I baked)

Making Final Piece:



Final Piece:



My Typogateaux Entry with Registration Card

I'm pleased with my Typogateaux entry as it answers the brief whilst giving the letterforms a context. It probably doesn't seem to have had a lot of skill put into it but it took alot of concentration and measurements to be able to produce the correct sizing for the base icing as well as produce the decoration and detail in the letterforms. It took a long time and needed several attempts but I was proud of it when it had been finished as I felt like I had accomplished something, particularly with such a delicate media as cake.