Chinees-Indische Restaurant Stickeralbum

2024

graphic design

book design

publishing

It was my pleasure to design the “Chinees-Indische Restaurant Stickeralbum”, a project of Benjamin Li about his ethnographic research on Chinees-Indisch restaurants in the Netherlands, its development and disappearance, entangled with his personal history and family archive.

Having worked on this project for one year and half, I was not only touched by Benjamin’s love, nostalgia, and passion on the topic, but also his daring approach gluing the societal with the personal, the persistence and dedication in his methodology, and eventually the playfulness in the artistic presentation.

With “Chinees-Indische Restaurant Stickeralbum”, you can browse through Benjamin’s family archive, read about his research and thoughts, collect, exchange, and play with the stickers that contain a unique selection of the dishes he photographed from over 1200 Chinees-Indische restaurants he visited throughout the years.