Future Food Lab
Open Recipes for a Changing Planet
- Client
- Lichen Social Innovation
- Role
- Brand Designer
- Year
- 2025
A participatory space to reimagine food systems through design, culture, and community.
In a world facing climate collapse, food insecurity, and ecological disconnection, rethinking how we grow, share, and relate to food is no longer optional—it’s urgent. Future Food Lab emerges as a response to this call. We see food not just as sustenance, but as a cultural connector, a political act, and a planetary responsibility.
The industrial food system has alienated us from the land and from each other. But there are seeds of change—in community gardens, experimental kitchens, ancestral practices, and food justice movements around the globe. Our work starts by identifying where food systems are failing—waste, monoculture, extractivism—and asking: how might we design alternatives that nourish more than just our bodies?
The brand identity was developed to reflect the experimental, community-driven, and sensory nature of the project. The outcome is a flexible system made to be adapted across countries, events, and materials—one that feels local but looks forward. The visual direction is both grounded and playful, keeping the tone accessible, youthful, and open to collaboration.
