Rutu Modan illustrates Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin's 100-page food special

Date
1 December 2014

It’s a cliche now to say that food magazines have become a cliche. New ones are served up seemingly every week and various titles have food specials from time to time, the formula of which has become very familiar. Respect then is due to The Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine which eschewed the well-trodden territory of glossy photographs artfully designed to look unstaged for its latest food issue. Instead the SZ team turned to Israeli artist Rutu Modan, who illustrated the entire thing from the cover through the 100 ages that follow. It’a bold approach for a weekly supplement but they’ve pulled it off in style and Rutu’s images pull the whole issue together into a great-looking cohesive whole.

It would be great to see more weekly magazines taking similar creative risks rather than sticking to the tried and tested.

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Rutu Modan: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin food special

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Rutu Modan: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin food special

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Rutu Modan: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin food special

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Rutu Modan: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin food special

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Rutu Modan: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin food special

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Rutu Modan: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin food special

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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