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.…
Pawel Piotrowski is freelance photographer and graphic designer from Poland. A recent graduate from the Faculty of Graphics and Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Pawel has recently created a tasty book that looks like a giant sandwich. Each page features a different ingredient to what would be a most…
This is arguably the most delicious looking wrapping paper in history. While I must concede my exposure to food-related wrapping paper is limited, surely this design must be in contention. The wrapping paper set was the brainchild of Sarah Fay and Justin Colt, two Penn State grads now based in New York, who together…
Beth Galton is a New York based photographer specializing in still life and food photography. In a conceptual series entitled Cut Food, Galton, in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnès created a series of cross sections of everyday foods like eggs, noodles, soup and ice cream. While the more ‘solid’ foods shot nicely, capturing…
Henry Hargreaves is a New Zealand still life, art and fashion photographer working out of his studio in Brooklyn, NYC. While he has always had a passion for photography, he actually worked as a high-end fashion model for four years before switching to the other side of the lens full-time. In a recent feature…
Kazuki Yamamoto is a Japense artist currently living and working in Osaka. Using a simple toothpick, Kazuki creates wonderful latte art portraits for customers of Cafe10g. Yamamoto also posts his latte art on Twitter (@george_10g) where he has amassed over 85,000 followers, all fascinated by his latest creations. While growing in popularity in the…
Since May 2008, graphic designer, illustrator, and Dad extraordinaire, David Laferriere, has been drawing on his kids’ sandwich bags with a Sharpie marker. Each drawing is done just after he makes the sandwich. He then takes a picture and posts it to Flickr where there are over 1,100 pictures and counting! Laferriere says the…
A fungus is a member of a large group of organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and moulds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, Fungi, which is separate from plants, animals, and bacteria. The discipline of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known…
The Allure of the Seas is the largest passenger ship ever constructed and the statistics are simply mind-boggling: – 225,282 GRT (gross register tonnage) – 1,187 feet (362 meters) long – 215 feet (66 meters) wide – 213 feet (65 meters) high from the water line – 30 feet (9.1 meters) draft – 22 knots…
Hong Yi is an artist/architect from Malaysia known as, ‘the artist who loves to paint, but not with a paintbrush’. She also goes by the nickname ‘Red’ because Hong sounds like the word ‘red’ in Mandarin. Last month, Hong challenged herself to create a new piece of food art for every day of March…
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