Idaho NAtional Laboratory
INL Diversity and Inclusion Cookbook
A design-led recipe book for INL that celebrates diversity and inclusion across the lab.
MArch 2024
Project Overview
INL’s Multiculturals in Leadership Council and I teamed up to create a one-of-a-kind recruiting piece: a recipe book featuring dishes from INL’s diverse workforce. The project highlighted the people behind the lab and later earned the 2022 Award of Excellence in Design & Print for DEI promotional collateral.
Creative direction began with a kickoff session with INL, where we aligned on what the book needed to accomplish as a recruiting resource. From there, I built a cohesive design system to support those goals, making diversity and culture the clear through-line on every page. We paired recipes with personal stories and photography to show the people and places behind them, and I used consistent layouts, typography, and image selection to keep the content easy to navigate while still feeling personal and celebratory.
After building the initial recipe layouts, I selected the photography to unify the visual story. The images shine throughout the book and help create a unified, cohesive look from section to section. I also designed cultural callouts to appear consistently across pages, bridging the introduction into the recipes and reinforcing the theme. Keeping INL’s message and goals front and center guided every styling and layout choice, so the final piece clearly connects culture, cooking, and the diversity INL brings to the table.
Designed a print-ready, INL-branded recipe book in InDesign that showcases the lab’s diverse workforce through recipes, stories, and photography as a recruiting resource guide.
Final Design
Booklet/Print layout design
I designed and produced the final recipe book in Adobe InDesign, building a clean, cohesive layout that could function as both a recruiting piece and a lasting resource guide. I set up a consistent grid, typography system, and page templates to keep recipes, stories, and cultural callouts easy to navigate while still feeling personal and celebratory. From there, I prepared the file for print by organizing styles, linking and packaging assets, and exporting press-ready PDFs with proper bleeds, margins, and resolution checks to ensure everything reproduced clearly and consistently. The result was a polished, print-ready book that reflects INL’s community and supports the council’s recruiting goals. It also won the Communicator 2022 Award of Excellence in Design & Print and even was a featured project and interview on their website.
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Idaho NAtional Laboratory
INL Diversity and Inclusion Cookbook
A design-led recipe book for INL that celebrates diversity and inclusion across the lab.
Project Overview
INL’s Multiculturals in Leadership Council and I teamed up to create a one-of-a-kind recruiting piece: a recipe book featuring dishes from INL’s diverse workforce. The project highlighted the people behind the lab and later earned the 2022 Award of Excellence in Design & Print for DEI promotional collateral.
Creative direction began with a kickoff session with INL, where we aligned on what the book needed to accomplish as a recruiting resource. From there, I built a cohesive design system to support those goals, making diversity and culture the clear through-line on every page. We paired recipes with personal stories and photography to show the people and places behind them, and I used consistent layouts, typography, and image selection to keep the content easy to navigate while still feeling personal and celebratory.
After building the initial recipe layouts, I selected the photography to unify the visual story. The images shine throughout the book and help create a unified, cohesive look from section to section. I also designed cultural callouts to appear consistently across pages, bridging the introduction into the recipes and reinforcing the theme. Keeping INL’s message and goals front and center guided every styling and layout choice, so the final piece clearly connects culture, cooking, and the diversity INL brings to the table.
Final Design
Booklet/Print layout design