Illustrating IBIS´ annual report
The annual we had to contribute illustrations to was full of stories, recipes, and tales from the countries where OXFAM/IBIS has projects. One of them was an African and the other a recipe for Bolo Polana from Mozambique.
Ingredients
- 4 potatoes (peeled and chopped)
- 2 cups butter
- 3 tbsp orange zest
- 1tsp salt
- 2 ½ cups of raw cashew nuts (unsalted)
- 10 egg yolks
- 5 egg whites
- 3 tbsp lemon zest
- 1 ¼ cup of sugar
Steps
- Boil your potatoes and mash them until smooth.
- Put your cashew nuts in a food processor or blender and grind them into a smooth consistency.
- Preheat your oven up to 3800 F. Butter the cake tin and set aside.
- Add sugar and butter in a large bowl and cream them until you get a light and creamy mixture.
- Beat in the cashew nuts, mashed potatoes and the orange and lemon zests.
- Whisk the egg yolks one at a time.
- In a separate basin, whisk the egg white until they stiffen and fold them into the batter.
- Transfer the batter into the cake tin and bake until golden brown.
- Remove and let it cool down. Enjoy with a drink in the morning or as a dessert.
🙂 Enjoy
The tale
Once there lived a cat. She thought, “The lion is the strongest of all the animals. It is good to have strong friends. I shall go to the lion and make friendship with him.”
She did so and the lion and the cat were friends for many, many days.
Once they went for a walk together and met an elephant. The lion began to fight with the elephant and the elephant killed him.
The cat was very sorry. “What shall I do?” she thought.
“The elephant was stronger than the lion. I shall go to the elephant and make friendship with him.”
She did so and they were friends for many, many days.
Once they went for a walk and met a hunter. The hunter shot at the elephant and killed him. The cat was sorry, but she thought, “The man is stronger than the elephant, I see.”
So she went up to the hunter and asked, “May I go with you?”
“All right, let us go home together,” he said.
They came to the man’s home. His wife met him and took his gun from him. The cat saw that and thought: “Oh, the woman is the strongest of all! She can take the hunter’s gun from him, and he does not fight with her. He does not even say a word!” The man sat down at the table and the woman went to the kitchen. The cat went to the kitchen, too. She decided to stay with the woman forever. That’s why you always see a cat in the kitchen at a woman’s feet.
Here the challenge was to design an icon that could illustrate for the annual report the three levels in which IBIS worked, education, advocacy, and action, that could be implemented in different areas of their visual identity. A symbol that mixed the flat 2D design with a 3D isometric character.
