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Berlin studio Langesommer gets a rise out of Cathrin Brandes' new ferminatation cookbook

What do sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt and sourdough bread have in common? They all arise from the fermentation process. Something that food expert Cathrin Brandes explores in her new book Fermentieren, which has been beautifully designed by Berlin's Langesommer.

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Book cover for Fermentieren by Cathrin Brandes, featuring a turquoise canning jar illustration with white script text on a cream and green cover

Founded in 2012 by Christine Lange and Patrick Marc Sommer, the studio focuses on publications and visual identities with a particular emphasis on typography. For this particular project, the duo crafted the identity and editorial design. With text and styling by Cathrin Brandes and photography by Florian Bolk, Fermentieren is everything you'd come to expect from one of the world's leading food experts.

As explained by Langesommer: "Fermenting is quite simple, works in the kitchen at home and without much equipment. The author Cathrin Brandes shows in this book step by step how to do it and how even better products are made of good ingredients. The old kitchen technique of fermenting is not only useful to preserve foods: A diet with fermented food is especially popular for a healthy intestinal flora and therefore a healthier body."

Discover more about Langesommer at langesommer.de.

Open pages of Fermentieren cookbook showing "Die Fermentation" article with German text on left and photograph of hands holding fermented vegetables over a bowl on right
Fermentieren cookbook by Cathrin Brandes designed by Langesommer, showing colourful striped spine and contents page against teal background
Open pages from Fermentieren cookbook showing ingredients for sharp onions, garlic and chilli with handwritten labels and botanical styling on cream pages
Open pages from Fermentieren cookbook showing German text and recipes for Shrub, Apfel-Rote-Bete-Shrub and Tomate-Chili-Shrub, illustrated with ingredients and a gold bookmark
Open pages of Cathrin Brandes' Fermentieren cookbook showing text and photographs of white cheese wheels on a checkered cloth and in bowls
Open spread of Fermentieren cookbook showing green fermented dish in bowls alongside recipe text and styling by Cathrin Brandes
Open cookbook spread showing a woman tossing flour with the word "Sauerteig" and a ball of dough on the right page
Open spread of Fermentieren cookbook showing a woman and man holding slices of sourdough bread against a brick wall, with text and golden yellow page on the right
Open pages of Fermentieren cookbook showing text on left and cross-section illustration of fermented ingredients in a glass jar on right
Open pages of Cathrin Brandes' Fermentieren cookbook designed by Langesommer, showing a table of contents and article text with a colourful spine edge detail
Close-up of the bright green spine of Cathrin Brandes' Fermentieren cookbook, designed by Berlin studio Langesommer, with white lettering visible on the cover above
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