When Lee Samantha was pregnant with her second child, she began making food art in an effort to encourage her elder daughter to eat independently. If she could achieve this, it would make the impending birth easier to manage. That was 2008, since then Lee’s food art has evolved and garnered her a massive following.…
TRUTH. Coffee | Haldane Martin Located in Cape Town, South Africa, is this amazing steampunk space for artisan coffee roasters, TRUTH. Coffee. Designed by Haldane Martin, steampunk was chosen as an appropriate conceptual reference, as both coffee roasters and espresso machines display elements of romantic, steam-powered technology. Owner David Donde and his business partner…
Back in January the Sifter posted 50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World. The post went on the be one of the most shared articles in the history of the website. At first I was surprised, but soon realized that we all want to simplify and improve our lives; especially when a solution to…
Photograph via Green Renaissance on Facebook The story of Glass Gem corn begins with Carl Barnes, a half Cherokee, half Scottish-Irish farmer living in Oklahoma. According to nativeseeds.org, Barnes had an uncanny knack for corn breeding and excelled at selecting and saving seeds from cobs that exhibited vivid, translucent colors. In 1994, Carl met…
Mattsun is a Japanese latte artist from Osaka and currently living and working in Tokyo. Mattsun drew his first latte art in 2009 while working at an Italian restaurant. Since then he has drawn over 500 different latte artworks and even showcased his work at the 2012 ‘Blue Sky Latte Art’ exhibit in Dotonbori,…
Artist and photographer Carl Warner began his career in landscape and still photography, working many years in the advertising industry. Seeking new inspiration and direction one day, he happened upon a market with Portobello mushrooms that reminded him of trees from an alien world. This would become his first foodscape and the start of…
Vivi Mac is a freelance artist from France. In an ongoing series entitled Art Ephemere, Mac uses a wide variety of foods, drinks and ingredients to create speed painting portraits of artists, musicians and celebrities. The temporary artworks are preserved in photographic form and shared on Facebook with Vivi Mac’s 10,000+ followers. Below you…
Design by CAKECRUMBS Website | deviantART | Facebook Rhiannon is the 25-year-old Australian Zoology graduate and self-taught baker behind the food blog cakecrumbs.me. Her incredible Jupiter planet cake (seen above) was featured earlier this week on the highly influential I f*cking love science Facebook page (which boasts a staggering 6.3 million fans). The layer…
SALVADOR LATTE Artwork by Kazuki Yamamoto (@George_10g on Twitter) Latte artist Kazuki Yamamoto is back with another amazing latte artwork. This time it’s a melting clock, an ode to Salvador Dali’s famous 1931 painting, The Persistence of Memory. It has been in the collection at the MoMA in New York City since…
Tanbo art is a Japanese creation in which people plant various types and colors of rice and ‘grow’ a giant picture in rice paddy fields. It all started back in 1993 when the village of Inakadate, about 600 miles north of Tokyo, was looking to create a project that would ‘revitalize’ the local economy.…
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