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Initial research involved brainstorming themes for the project, including ideas such as family eating habits (e.g., the benefits of eating together) and exploring food behaviours related to religion, which I thought could potentially be an interesting subject to develop.

I also explored seating at cafes, examining the different types of chairs used, as this could result in a graphically interesting outcome. I also considered the subject of disappearing cafes, also known as greasy spoons.

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First visit to Jack's Cafe

This place stood out due to the friendliness of the people working in the cafe and the interactions they had with their customers, who seemed mostly regulars, with whom they had built a relationship over time.

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The writing in this booklet, published by an artist and oriented towards guiding creatives through an ethnographic research approach, was quite inspiring. There was a small section dedicated to illustration, and it reminded me of "The autoethnographic illustrator", a chapter in the book

"Illustration research methods" that features photographs

by Illustrator Ruairi Fallon  McGuigan at Flanagan's Bar ( see capture below), an Irish pub in Lewisham, where he worked, and that inspired his work.

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"The autoetnographic illustrator". Featured in 'Illustration research methods'

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This is the first drawing I did from Jack's cafe. One of his customers hummed a tune while looking at the menu. He seemed a regular and quirky character to portray.

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A project on traditional British food that touches upon the subject of immigration.

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After the site visit, with the idea of developing the project, I visited Jack's cafe again, to eat, take some pictures, draw, get acquainted with the family who runs it and the vibe of the place itself. I visited the cafe about seven times during my research. Each time, I have introduced myself to Musa and his sons, who run the cafe, shown them the illustrations, and established a relationship to learn more about their story and the cafe itself.

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Classic Cafes relates the history of cafes in (mainly) London in relation to the architectural, interior design, and general cultural changes that originated post-World War II, motivated by new ideas and also materials that developed in the 1950s and 1960s. These cafes became hubs for creatives. The book also explains how many of these cafes were opened in the 50's by immigrant families ( Italian, Maltese, Turks, Cypriots,...) and some of the transformations they have suffered over the years, as well as the threat of closure many traditional cafes experience due to changes in society.

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The graphics and colour choice of these zine were some of my favourites. They kept reminding me of the red and blue plastic chairs at Jack's cafe. ;)

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Took a few picture of zines which style and/or use of colour inspired me

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The Accordion. Always the easiest one to fold. I like practicality.

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The Accordion. Always the easiest one to fold. I like practicality.

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Risograph print guide research

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The book is mostly in Black and White but has some colour pictures. Red and blue seems to be a recurrent colour scheme in cafes. Jack's cafe's chairs are also red and blue which contributed to the choice of colours for my zine.

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Crispin Finn is a British artist who uses a reduced colour palette in his work. The colours of the Union Jack.

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A T-shirt I made with one of the images I produced for the project using the heat-transfer machine at the screen printing workshop. The image was converted to vector to achieve the best quality print on the fabric.

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My process involved several visits to the cafe, a few hand drawings, and all the individual drawings that appear in the zine, which I created separately on A4-size canvas in Procreate. I only started using the software last year, but I, like many others, have become a keen fan of it. I added some drawings to the back of the zine (poster side) and resized the food plates to make them more dynamic and represent the energy of the cafe.

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Creating layers

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Making a risograph print using Procreate

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Making a risograph print using Procreate

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk8EUnI25nQ

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MAKING A RISOGRAPHY PRINT ON PROCREATE / sketch, colors, printing files...

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Different mock-ups to figure out position of drawings

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Different mock-ups to figure out position of drawings

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Figuring out the right position for the images before printing

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Following feedback from the presentation day, I changed the typeface to a "handwritten" style font in small and capital letters, rather than just all caps.

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For this side of the A3 document/zine, I decided to use illustrator rather than Procreate for two reasons: It had text , which needs to be transformed into vector ( expanded) to achieve the best quality printing and also, as the images were all individual A4 size documents, I could easily tweak the size and transform them all into vector, them select the shapes I needed and copying + pasting them in place on a different layer to create the greyscale colour layers.