So perhaps menu collecting is our attempt to take the culinary experience with us. When the food is digested and the meal is just a memory we still own a piece of it. But, it has become more than just a vehicle to recall the meal, it is visual texture in and of itself. Especially in a day and age (and place) when so many restaurants create seasonal or even daily menus, each one can be considered a piece of art, or at least an artifact of the experience. There is almost as much to deconstruct about the menu as there is about the meal–the typeface, the size, the alignment, the graphic elements, the paper quality, etc. And well, these are things we talk about here at visual texture.

Here is a smattering of our collection. The hope is to one day create a tabletop or kitchen wallpaper out of our favorites.

They say opposites attract, right? Maybe that is why we love Grain Edit. This blog/blogger knows exactly who it is and where it is going–and it shows.

Grain edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period

The displays of art are delicious; the write-ups are quick, well-informed and educational; and we groan with envy when we think of the museum and eye-candy quality of Grain Edit’s bookshelves, walls and coffee tables.