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I remember sitting in drawing class and having to draw stills of fruit bowls, or shadow and light studies with objects spray painted white. Everything looked so… plain. But I guess that’s the way it was supposed to look.

Now, instead of white plastic fruits and vegetables, Esslack food spray can let you have gold, silver, or any metallic colored REAL fruit and veggies. Still edible! Woahhh!

Esslack Food Spray
See it, spray it, bling it, eat it! Korefe makes some edible Silver and Gold paint, making sure to capture your guests curiosity! I want to eat silver cereal!

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I love dumplings. Especially homemade ones with soup… and noodles. Egg noodles, rice noodles… Nom nom nom! Now here’s a backpack that has been inspired by dumplings! At first glance, there seems to be a lot going on in there (there is), but once it’s folded flat, you have storage for your walls! Now there’s an idea.

Dumpling Inspired Backpack

Here’s a slightly different take on the backpack. The Dumpling, inspired by the delicious pouch foods, is a backpack that treats your belongings as color coded and compartmentalized items. The backpack is actually made up of a series of roll-up bags. Take only what you need and roll them up into the main support guard which is quite simple in design – a couple straps and a big hook. It looks crafty but something about it is very attractive.
Designer: Shin Ji-Young

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Japanese design and architecture have always inspired me. The simple forms, attention to detail, clean lines. These package designs you’ll see here are taking it back to the basics. And it’s awesome!

A deliciously set of five “sasa-dango,” dumplings wrapped in bamboo grass, a specialty from Niigata.

Two different kinds of natural bamboo are employed here: A section of a bamboo stem covered with a sasa (bamboo grass) leaf…

… and a bamboo container holding “mizu-yokan,” soft azuki bean jelly. By Furyudo.

Packaging design by Mizu Yokan. This fake bamboo tube can be bought at ordinary supermarkets.

This two bite-sized snack wrapped in bamboo grass is called “chimaki sushi.” By caterer Fukutsuchi for ¥420. Wrapped in additional plastic foil!

This lunch set by caterer Koichian is wrapped in natural bamboo sheath, including a bamboo ribbon, inside there are three different flavoured onigiri rice balls.

Bamboo sheath gone boxy – imprinted texture on a lunch box by Umi no Megumi.

Straw-wrapped natto by Tengu-natto from Mito. This area in Ibaraki prefecture is famous for it. Inside the package, the soybeans happily intermingle with the straw.

‘Funa-natto:’ Natto in a boat shaped package by Marushin. The inner lining of the boat package is made of natural wood.

Natto wrapped in a triangular wood shaving by Shimonita.

Package of fuki-miso, fermented soybean paste flavoured with Giant Butterbur, by Ganko Oyaji.

This is just one of them posts which I love. The above Japanese Packaging designs have some interesting approaches, love them. Some combining natural and synthetic materials and some just look natural but aren’t. Please check out Pingmag for more info. Unfortunately they don’t post anymore.

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These may look good enough to eat, but they’re actually woven and stitched! Amazing!

scholten and baijings vegetables

a view into the showcase
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recently the dutch designer duo scholten and baijings opened a retrospective at
vivid gallery in rotterdam. they called their exhibition ‘from japanese furniture to vegetables’.

during milan design week 2010, at rossana orlandi in milan they showcased inedible
vegetables with a great sense of realism to real produce. from a distance the stalks
of raw rhubarb look almost real. however, it’s only when this fabric trompe l’oeil is right
under your nose that the woven texture and the stitching is visible.

vegetables by scholten and baijings

the realism is especially evident in the red stem that gradually becomes a paler in pink as
it reaches the leaf. details such as the inclusion of dark veins makes these ‘fake’ vegetables
especially convincing. the leaf curl up whimsically and slowly graduate in color from
a green to a soft yellow and, finally,  to a pastel pink. even the half-round, slightly hollowed
out form of the stalk is photorealistic.

vegetables on display
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cabbages
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cabbages

cabbage

cabbage

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artichoke

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lemons

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We’ve all played with food when we were younger… check out these art pieces that are crazy good! And look delicious! Nom nom nom!

Bento, Chocolate, & Beyond: 10 Intriguing Examples of Food Art

As the fear of the obesity epidemic rises, food is seen more an more as simply something one has to cut back on. Lunch is no longer a joyful time to cherish, but a disappointing time spent in front of a microwave. Not everyone has succumbed to this despair, however, and a lot of people are compensating for smaller, healthier, portions, with beautiful aesthetics. Here are 10 beautiful and mystifying artworks made out of cuisine:

(Images via modes4u, lostateminor, neatorama, twolia)

Bento boxes are single portion takeouts and home prepared meals that are extremely popular in Japanese culture. Some people take it very seriously, and love to turn an otherwise mundane preparation into an applause worthy artistic expression. One can only imagine how difficult it would be to start chowing down if your microwave meal was being oohed and aaahed as much as one of these preparations would be.

(Images via neatorama, slashfood, wonderhowto, cadbury)

Chocolate portraits are an increasingly popular artistic expression. The concentration here is on appearance, not taste, so they may not taste as great as you’d think, but they certainly are eye-catching. Chocolate has the advantage of coming in a variety of colors and hues, and being both malleable and hard enough to maintain its form. Through sculpture and careful pouring and manipulation, chocolate artists can create incredibly realistic depictions.

(Images via pixdaus, jorymon)

Nothing spices up a pot luck like strategically arraying your food into a classic painting or character portrait. Such simple and intriguing displays are a bit inspiring. How much harder would it be to add a few distinctive features to your otherwise mundane dish? You may not want to tackle the Mona Lisa the next time you set out cheese and crackers, but a nice smiley face never hurts.

(Images via obesityhelp, popfi, funnypictures, guardian)

Some believe that higher powers work in mysterious ways… whether these are examples of this, or just fortuitous coincidence, is hard to say. Regardless of the source of these inspirational portraits, nobody can deny they’re intriguing. The phenomenon of seeing Jesus’ face in random food products (like the cheeto, naan, potato chip, and fish stick pictured above), isn’t constrained to the food itself:

(Images via bitchspot, popfi)

Household items can showcase unearthly portraits as easily as a potato chip. Whether you find excitement over these occurrences ridiculous or spiritual, they’re definitely interesting.

(Images via guardian, amandamorrow, popularasians, chilloutpoint)

Sushi is delicious, and no one will argue that the taste of a good sushi roll can be affected by the artistry of its creation, and its appearance on the plate. There are some who take this to an extreme. A portrait of President Obama and the face of a friendly panda may have been the inspiration for a sushi vinyl toy that does not look happy to be on the plate.

(Images via foundshit, geekologie, break4fun, insomniadiaries)

Meat is something a lot of people like to eat, and it’s also something a lot of people don’t like to think about. Whether you’re a meat lover or not, the above sculpted artworks are a bit nauseating, and very unique. After taking a look at this assemblage of strange sculptures, it will be hard to see a muscle car the same way again.

(Images via panric, pxleyes, saufnase)

For artists with a photographic and technological bent, food is more enjoyable to manipulate with photoshop. Mixing and matching different objects in entertaining and shocking ways is a great way to catch someone’s attention and show off your skills with photo manipulation.

(Images via rockstartemplate, humor-articles, unstructured musings, weirdspy)

Artists choose a variety of strange materials, and food is no exception. Some artists love taking the everyday and turning them into something more powerful. A good photo changes an otherwise temporary piece of art into something that can brighten up someone’s day for as long as the internet is around.

(Images via philagrafika, hackedgadgets, blisstree)

Toast is the foundation for any good breakfast, in television commercials, and in the average home. One might say toast is both the most common and most boring part of breakfast, but new technology aims to change that. Possibly inspired by the faces of Jesus that kept appearing on slices of bread, some engineers put together a toast printer that can imprint any image you’d like onto a piece of white or wheat. Some versions work like a real printer with the bread as paper, while others use an external tool to burn the decorations. However it’s done, it sure seems like a lot of fun!

Via WebUrbanist

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