These articles take you through the creative process from Inspiration to Presentation. The idea behind them was to take something as common yet elegant as a character from Asian calligraphy and create showpiece elements out of it. We hope you are inspired to look around and find what inspires your artistry!
Susan Notter & Michael JoyPastry Art & Design Magazine, December 2007
Creative chefs are always looking for new designs to incorporate into their culinary artwork. While studying sculpture in art school, I learned that new ideas can often be found by looking into the past. When discussing showpiece design with chefs, I recommend they find inspiration in Calligraphy Transformation. In fact, it doesn’t take long to find a Chinese or Japanese character whose composition has both exciting motion and appealing balance. With some slight modification, a calligraphy character can be transformed, from a two-dimensional shape into a three-dimensional form. In this article, Pastry Chef Susan Notter and I have…
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Susan Notter & Michael Joy
Pastry Art & Design Magazine, December 2007
Susan Notter has spent more than twenty years traveling the world teaching and demonstrating sugar artistry to chefs, pastry chefs and culinary students. She is a seasoned competitor and a master of blown and pulled sugar decoration, as well a co-author and contributor to several pastry books. Mindful of the time constraints that chefs face and the realities of the industry, Chef Notter has chosen to demonstrate how quickly and easily a casting mat can be used to create modern, expressive centerpieces using calligraphy composition…
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