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11 Creative and Unusual Cake Designs

May 23rd, 2013 by Lina | No Comments | Filed in Design

When somebody says “cake“, we typically imagine a round baked sweet, most often decorated with fancy flowers and ribbons, layered together from different kinds of goodies. However, the first cakes, recorded in Ancient Rome and Greece, were way different: the Romans would simply enhance basic bread dough with butter, eggs and honey, and the more creative Greeks would make their version of a cheesecake, using goat’s milk. The term “cake”, however, originates from the times of the Vikings, and their Old Norse word for it, “kaka”.

Whichever one it is – cheesecake, sponge cake, butter cake, fruit cake – just the sight of it usually makes our mouths water. Recently, however, confectioners started to get a bit more creative with the decorations we’re so used to seeing. Not only were the good old flowers replaced with a bit more odd figurines (like, for instance, little piglets), but the shapes of the desserts started to vary from funny to bizarre. Here’s a selection of some quite extraordinary cake designs out there – how would you feel if you were served one that’s disguised as turkey or a human baby?

1. ‘Pigs in The Mud’ Cake

Image credits: Taartjes van Fiona

2. Snake Cake

Image credits: North Star Cakes

3. Nikon Cake

Image credits: fsumaria

4. Turkey Cake

Image credits: Sarah Hardy

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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

May 10th, 2013 by Jolita | No Comments | Filed in Design

Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluision traveled the world exploring how the eating habits differ from country to country and presented their results in a photo album, called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The wife and husband’s team visited 24 different countries and 30 families to photograph them at home, at the market, and surrounded by their weekly food supplies.

Apart from being interesting and educative, the project brings up some social issues. The exposed weekly grocery list provides information not only about dietary habits, but also about health, economy, lifestyle, etc. It also clearly shows the division between the first world and the developing countries. Interestingly, less affluent families eat more nutritious food than those who could actually afford it. On the contrary, more economically stable families eat more processed food, while fresh products constitute just a small part of their diet.

Come to think of it, how much does your family spend on food per week and what kind of food do you eat?

Website: Peter Menzel, Book: What the World Eats

Mexico, Cuernavaca

The Casales family spends around $189 per week.

Ecuador, Tingo

The Ayme family spends around $32 per week.

United States, Texas

The Fernandezes family spends around $242 per week.

Guatemala, Todos Santos

The Mendozas family spends around $76 per week.

United States, North Carolina

The Revis family spends around $342 per week.

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16 Awesome Food Art Ideas

April 29th, 2013 by Lina | No Comments | Filed in Design

Every one who’s ever tried feeding a baby knows how important it is to make the food look nice and funny – especially if it’s broccoli or porridge… This is because the looks of your food constitutes a great part of the overall pleasure of eating. But if you manage to turn your noodles into Chewbacca, or can make a plate of Angry bird sandwiches, hardly anyone could say no to that!

To get your creative juices flowing, we made a list of 16 creative food art examples. Some of you will recognize the works of Hong Yi, the young Malaysian artist did an awesome 31 day food project where she was creating one beautiful piece of food art each day. However, you don’t have to be a professional artist to do this.

If you don’t know where to start, you came to the right place – these should leave you hungry enough to start cooking right away!

1. Chewbacca Noodles

Image credits: disposableaardvarksinc.blogspot.com

2. Hot Dog Mummies

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Image credits: seakettle.com

3. Sleeping Rice Bear

Image credits: unknown

4. Eggregation

Image credits: scalvert

5. Hot “Dogs”

Image credits: taste-of-japan.blogspot.com

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31 Days of Creativity with Food by Hong Yi

March 15th, 2013 by Karolis | No Comments | Filed in Design

From the 1st of March Malaysian artist Hong Yi (previously here and here) started playing with her food – each day she creates a beautiful piece of art in her plate made entirely out of food. The artist that also goes by the name “Red” is going to create 31 pieces by month’s end. You can follow her project on Instagram.

Eat your paintings or you’ll never grow big!

“All you need is love…”

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“Sonny, if anything, just stay far far away from Colonel Sanders”

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“Hello there, Richard Parker!”

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“Water Melon”

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“The Scream by Edvard Munch”

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“Found a tiny little garden on my plate today. The sun came out too.”

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“The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai Katsushika”

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“Dragonfruit”

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“Tomato Soup”

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“Giant Squid Attack”

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“Banksy on My Plate”

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“Arctic Melting”

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via: foodiggity

31 Days of Creativity with Food by Hong Yi originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 15, 2013.

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What 200 Calories Look Like in Different Foods

February 19th, 2013 by Ieva | No Comments | Filed in Design

WiseGEEK conducted a very visual and informative study and presented a photo series, which compares what 200 calories actually look like in different foods. You’d think that even with the bikini season coming up, a handful of gummy bears couldn’t hurt much, right..? Well, turns out, just 51 gram of those gives you the same amount of calories as nearly 600 grams of broccoli or 3 whole eggs would. And now be honest – which of those amounts sounds more alike a proper and filling meal to you?

The study compares 71 different foods, and is originally organized going from low to high calorie density. You can really tell how the quantities are getting smaller towards the end of the list! Statistically an average adult needs 2000-2500 calories a day, but this, of course, differs depending on how physically active you are. So for those who don’t hesitate to sweat in the gym, a spoonful of peanut butter is a lot less of a sin!

Website: wisegeek.com

Apples (385 grams / 13.5 oz)

Butter (28 grams / 0.98 oz)

Broccoli (588 grams / 20.7 oz)

Snickers Chocolate Bar (41 grams / 1.45 oz)

Cooked Pasta (145 grams / 5.11 oz)

Hot Dogs (66 grams / 2.33 oz)

Kiwi Fruit (328 grams / 11.6 oz)

Jack in the Box Cheeseburger (75 grams / 2.6 oz)

Eggs (150 grams / 5.3 oz)

Celery (1425 grams / 50.3 oz)

Blackberry Pie (56 grams / 1.97 oz)

Mini Peppers (740 grams / 26.1 oz)

Canned Black Beans (186 grams / 6.56 oz)

Werther’s Originals Candy (50 grams / 1.76 oz)

Jack in the Box Chicken Sandwich (72 grams / 2.5 oz)

Glazed Doughnut (52 grams / 1.8 oz)

French Sandwich Roll (72 grams / 2.5 oz)

Avocado (125 grams / 4.4 oz)

Canned Sweet Corn (308 grams / 10.9 oz)

Baby Carrots (570 gram / 20.1 oz)

Canned Green Peas (357 grams / 12.6 oz)

Canned Pork and Beans (186 grams / 6.56 oz)

Doritos (41 grams / 1.44 oz)

Dried Apricots (83 grams / 2.9 oz)

Jack in the Box French Fries (73 grams / 2.6 oz)

Fried Bacon (34 grams / 1.2 oz)

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Food Photographed With An Electron Microscope by Caren Alpert

November 7th, 2012 by Tomas | No Comments | Filed in Design

If your hobbies range from food to art to science, they might seem incompatible at first – not to Caren Alpert, though, who combined all of those and presented some stunning microscopic food photographs. The series, called Terra Cibus, were created with an electron microscope, which helps to reveal the side of our food we don’t normally get to see.

A San Francisco-based fine art and commercial photographer says that she was first attracted to microscope photographs because of their mystery and familiarity at the same time. “This medium deconstructs, abstracts, and reveals the ordinary in a riveting way,” explains Caren and goes on to say that eventually she started seeing both the food and the consumers as a part of a larger ecosystem.

To be more specific, the artist used the scanning electron microscope (SEM). It is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning it with a focused beam of electrons. The electrons interact with electrons in the sample, producing various signals that can be detected and that contain information about the sample’s surface topography and composition. The range of magnification may range from 30x to as high as 500,000x.

Caren is currently having an exhibition of her work at the Citigroup Center in New York which will be available till November 31st.

Website: carenalpertfineart.com

Blueberry: 19x Magnification

Chocolate Cake: 320x Magnification

Purple Onion: 230x Magnification

Shrimp Tail: 230x Magnification

Sugar in the Raw: 15x Magnification

Star Anise: 14x Magnification

Red Cabbage: 27x Magnification

Red Licorice: 20x Magnification

Banana Skin: 210x Magnification

Table Salt: 45x Magnification

Fortune Cookie: 150x Magnification

Kiwi Seed: 320x Magnification

Coffee Bean: 80x Magnification

Sun-Dried Tomato: 250x Magnification

Lifesaver: 17x Magnification

Raisin: 35x Magnification

Pop Tart: 450x Magnification

Vitamin C: 50x Magnification

French’s Fried Onion: 300x Magnification

Oreo: 15x Magnification

Cake Sprinkles: 65x Magnification

See more photos made with electron microscope: here

Food Photographed With An Electron Microscope by Caren Alpert originally appeared on Bored Panda on November 7, 2012.

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Incredible Food Portrait of the World’s Best Chef

August 21st, 2012 by Tomas | No Comments | Filed in Design

For the cover of the August issue of Clase Premier Magazine, Mexican studio Golpeavisa had to make a portrait of René Redzepi, the world’s best chef. Usually, these cover illustrations are digital drawings, but this time Golpeavisa decided to push their luck a little bit further, and do the illustration photographically.

The idea was to shoot a bunch of cuisine and kitchen related elements positioned in such a way that it would look like a silhouette of Redzepi’s face.

“It was a lot harder than we thought but it was a lot of fun. Yorch took charge of the lighting and photographical production while the rest of us sketched the composition and placed the elements in the shot.”

Website: blogolpeavisa.com

Incredible Food Portrait of the World’s Best Chef originally appeared on Bored Panda on August 21, 2012.

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Minimiam: Little People in the World of Food

August 29th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Do you remember the little people from the Tiny Street Art Project by Slinkachu? Now take these tiny guys to the beautiful Foodscapes by Carl Warner and you’ll get something similar to what you’re about to see.

Minimiam (meaning “Mini Yum”) is a creative union of husband and wife who create tiny worlds of food with their little people doing their little chores here. Akiko Ida is Japanese and Pierre Javelle is French. They met studying photography at the Paris “Arts Decoratifs” art school.

Since childhood, Akiko has always been attracted to the world of gastronomy. As a child, she elaborated and baked different sorts of bread which she subsequently photographed and classified in a notebook. At the same time, she invented tiny characters that filled entire pages of her journal. Akiko became a renowned Food Photographer, and has already taken part in more than 30 cookbooks.

Piere hails from Burgundy. He grew up on a comics diet. Attracted by drawing, illustrations and photography, art school was his refuge. The likes of Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson were major influences in his choice of photography as a medium.

Website: minimiam.com

Minimiam: Little People in the World of Food originally appeared on Bored Panda on August 29, 2011.

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Edible Fashion Accessories By Fulvio Bonavia

April 1st, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Do you remember Foodscapes by Carl Warner or 12 Tasty National Flags Made out of Food? Both ideas got really popular and they both had something in common – that’s right, food! People just love food art, and if you happen to be a struggling artist yourself, this might be a perfect material for your next project.

To inspire you even more, we want to show you some wonderfully executed works taken from A Matter of Taste, a book by an award-winning Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia showcasing his conceptual photos of food as fashion – corn espadrilles, aubergine slippers, and a tagliatelle belt, for example.

What’s interesting is that Bonavia begins his artistic and design sensibilities to each every one of his pictures, doing all of the post-production himself so that his photographs are infused with his vision from start to end. A couple of images were taken from his website, but most of them can be found in his book.

Website: fulviobonavia.com