5 Instagram Food Styling Accounts Telling Stories for Children

Learn how you can use food as a storytelling tool that incorporates character design

Mealtimes can be highly emotional occasions when children are concerned. The following designers, illustrators, and stylists take the art of gastronomic creativity and pattern composition to a new level. They attract a large community of children (and grown-ups) with their colorful dishes.

Using simple everyday ingredients and a large dollop of imagination, they have brought both old and new characters to the table. Their beautifully designed dishes tell stories that draw you into a magical world. Let them inspire you and discover how to use food as a conceptual communicative tool.

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England

Sarah Lescrauwaet, who created these pies, is the founder of Mia Chocolate. After living in Africa for seven years, Sarah wished to continue helping the communities she had gotten to know there. She founded her brand in collaboration with Proudly Made in Africa, which ensures all the chocolate and other ingredients used in her products are fair trade.

Hasnawati Yahaya

Malaysia

"My children will eat anything, and I do not need to decorate their dishes. I do it for me because I enjoy being this type of mom", this Malaysian artist working with large Asian brands explains.

De Meal Prepper

Belgium

Jolanda Stokkermans is a graphic designer who can capture characters, landscapes, and portraits in the dishes she prepares for her two children, with only one condition: everything in the menu must be healthy. And she never uses food dyes but selects ingredients with the right natural color.

A Simple Stylist

Australia

Nicola, the account creator, is an Australian fashion designer who describes herself as someone "who simply likes to make pretty-looking things." She certainly does.

Dušica Stamenković

Bosnia

Dušica is a preschool teacher who discovered she had a talent for telling stories using nutritious food when her first baby Ignjata was born. It was also the inspiration for the name of her YouTube channel, “Ignjatova mama,” or "Ignjata’s mom,” where she teaches these recipes in popular tutorials.

Do you want to learn this delicious storytelling art? Sign up for designer and art director Vega Hernando’s (@vegahernando) course Gastronomic Creativity and Pattern Composition. Discover how you can turn food into an artistic, communicative, and conceptual tool.

English version by @acesarato

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