Unbelievable Sugar Murals: Making Street Art Out of Frosting and Sugar
I know there’s been an influx of street art on here lately, but this was too amazing to ignore– Montreal artist Shelley Miller puts up these pieces of sugar street art that are incredibly detailed. From afar, it resembles the blue and white finesse of Delft ceramic ware, but in reality all of these outdoor...
Designer Nori: Delicate Laser Cut Seaweed Patterns
Japanese ad agency I&SBBDO was approached by a client who wanted to boost their flagging business after the 2011 tsunami in Japan– the product, however, was nori (sheets of Japanese seaweed used in sushi). In an effort to reinvent this simple square of seaweed without losing sight of the age-old traditions embedded in their culture,...
Read, Cook, & Eat Your Words: Edible Cookbook Teaches You How to Make Lasagna
Imagine not only learning how to make lasagna from your cookbook, but also being able to bake and eat the book, using the pages as the lasagna’s pasta! German design agency Korefe came up with this edible cookbook as a special project for a publishing house, and the best part of the ad concept is...
Choose Your Color: Pantone Fruit Tarts
French food blogger Emilie Griottes created this beautiful photo spread for the French culinary magazine, Fricote: the series of 9 photos titled “Choose Your Color” each display a different food item(often fruit) as a Pantone color swatch tart. I wish there were more photos– the styling is perfect, with those dipped watercolor cards and slightly...
Delectable Chocolate Planets: A Delicious Look At Our Solar System
Here’s a new way to look at our solar system– imagine Mercury as a blend of mango and coconut covering rich lemon ganache. The Rihga Royal Hotel in Japan has relaunched their Chocolate Planets series, which features all of our planets (alas, Pluto, you are no more!) as confectionary delights: the entire set (including the...
Felted Bacon Wraps: Delicious Protection For All Your Stuff
While searching for a new iPhone case, I came across these unconventional wraps: Germany-based Antje Schmitt handcrafts these felted bacon covers for all of your savory tech protection needs. Each bacon wrap bears an uncanny resemblance to everyone’s favorite breakfast food, yet retains a soft, tactile surface that looks pliable to the touch. This is...
Unbelievably Tiny Foodscapes: Miniature Food Made of Clay at a 1:12 Scale
Shay Aaron is a miniaturist from Israel who can hold entire banquets on his thumb– using polymer clay and an astounding attention to detail and craftsmanship, he recreates different food objects on a 1:12 scale. Sushi rolls become smaller than the head of a pushpin, gingerbread houses can be balanced on one finger, and shish...
Papercraft Cover: Minimalist Paper Food Design
Artist and designer Sarah Illenberger created this beautiful cover for the Papercraft book, with the help of photographer Ragnar Schmuck– the perfectly crafted food is lined up quietly in the photo, with all sorts of kitchen goods replicated in nothing but paper. The precision of her craftsmanship makes the food instantly recognizable, but the nature...
Color Coded Shopping List Magnets
UK based Harrington & Squires created these magnetic shopping list buttons that are color-coded according to the colors of the food itself. Each button’s shiny, simple message is an gentle reminder of what you need, and the earthy colors paired with lowercase words is clean and understated. The texture is what makes the magnets so...
Unbelievably Realistic Japanese Food iPhone Cases
The Japanese are quite famous for their stunningly realistic fake display food, but these iPhone cases take the art to another (more transportable) level– the iMeshi cases from Strapya feature different types of Japanese delicacies and street foods on their backs, all of which look unnervingly real. The illusion is compounded by the 3D nature...
Sushi Memo Pad: In Salmon, Tuna, Fatty Tuna, and Egg
Japanese design company Scope came up with this 4-piece set of memo pads called Sushi Memo Block, printed to look like four different types of sushi– tamago (egg), sake (salmon), otoro (fatty tuna), and maguro (tuna). As you use up the memo pads sheet by sheet, you slowly move from the fish/egg portion of the...
Yum Yum Cover: Perfectly Blown Glass Covers for Your Favorite Foods
The Japanese design duo Switch came up with these clever food covers that are created for very specific foods: each cover is meant to fit only one object, whether its a slice of cake, a cream puff, or a Japanese riceball (onigiri). They dubbed the trio of glass covers Yum Yum Covers, and had a...
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