Visual Cooking


Artist Younjin, a student at Hongik Art University, South Korea has created a website which takes the palette of Korean-style foods and applies them into artistic expressions, resulting in a food ingredient work of art.

Korean-style food that is in complementary relations between rice and side dishes makes the Five Tastes and the Five Cardinal Colors on the basis of those two elements.

In accordance with the constitution of rice and side dishes, Visual Cooking makes patterns with choice of ingredients by a user, and furthermore, by means of making color code related to the Five Tastes and the Five Cardinal Colors, Visual Cooking tries to deliver understanding and composition principle about Korean-style food.