SIMMER: Sensory Archiving & Ancestral Recipes

Project Overview

SIMMER is an AI-driven sensory archiving and intuitive cooking platform concept designed to preserve oral culinary history by translating vague, unmeasured ancestral knowledge into personalized digital data. This project was a capstone brief set by Bimbo Oni Studio under the industry theme of Culinary Heritage & Intuitive Cooking. The brief asked for a six-scene illustration system and supporting spot illustrations that communicate both the sleek intelligence of a digital system and the raw, sensory, and messy humanity of the kitchen. The deliverable was not a UI design project. It was a visual storytelling project, one that needed to make a viewer feel the problem before they understood the solution.