This Woman Trades Beautiful Hand-lettered Menus for Food

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Lauren Hom is a designer by trade. Her project Will Letter for Lunch, is an endeavor which utilizes her artistic abilities in exchange for food. Hom hand-letters a restaurant chalkboard menu, asking nothing for payment other than the dish she inscribes on the board.

The 23-year-old New York-based illustrator noticed that many restaurants have less-than-appealing menu boards displaying their daily specials. Hom believed she could do much better, thus her Will Letter for Lunch was born. She goes from restaurant to restaurant personally illustrating chalk and blackboard menu signs.

Hom describes the experience as “complete fair barter,” according to Grubstreet. Since everything she writes she gets to eat, when she letters an entire menu, she returns multiple times to feast. Hom currently has no plans to charge money for her services as she feels money would take the fun out of the experience. Hom has a freelance job that pays her bills while she works on this passion project.

Currently Hom is working on her sixth restaurant menu design. Her dream gig would to be to hand-letter for a sushi restaurant.

H/T Grubstreet

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