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Food fight: Emilie Baltz
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Food Design
Emilie Baltz thinks that vegetables, fruits, seeds and grains can be made more desirable.
15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Annelies Hermsen
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Food Design
Food designer Annelies Hermsen thinks that in the future we will only eat what we need to.
15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Jennifer Rubell
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Food Design
Artist Jennifer Rubell reckons that we lost control of our food culture when women left the kitchen for the workplace.
15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Brent Richards
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Food Design
Brent Richards points out that differentiating between need and wish shows two contrasting world food economies. Both can be enhanced by creativity.
15 Nov 11
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Mechanical gut
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Food Design
What is really useless? How about the Cloaca machine that turns food into faeces?
15 Nov 11
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Blood pudding
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Tuur van Balen's "Cook Me: Black Bile" is a recipe for controlling feelings of melancholy.
15 Nov 11
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Cheese from humans
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Food Design
Cheese made from human breast milk comments on the lack of self-reflection in food design.
15 Nov 11
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Veggie toner
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Food Design
Graphic designer John Jansen created a range of organic inks by using the juice of vegetables like carrots, spinach and red cabbage.
15 Nov 11
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The ingredients of good writing
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Espresso for Marcel Proust, vinegar for Lord Byron, milk for Franz Kafka and other ingredients of good writing.
15 Nov 11
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Seeing the meat for the peas
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Food Design
Can a vegetarian and an omnivore share the same meal without compromise? The Doppelganger Dinner makes it almost possible,
15 Nov 11
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Meat you in vitro
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Food Design
Speculative designer James King considers what the meat of the future might like look.
15 Nov 11
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Food deskjet
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Food Design
If you can print fashion and furniture with 3D printing techniques, it follows that we should also be able to print food. The Fab@Home project investigates.
15 Nov 11
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Produced from food
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Food Design
Flour, coffee, cocoa and salt are some of the ingredients used in Formafantasma's "Baked" collection of containers.
15 Nov 11
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Benefit bus
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Design Thinking
The Do Good Bus and Indie-pop band Foster the People recently toured North America, volunteering services as they went along.
15 Nov 11
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Beautiful boards
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Product Design
Loyal Dean's longboards are inspired by shapes and forms found in nature and crafted using reclaimed lumber.
15 Nov 11
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Mapping the graphic route
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Graphic Design & Illustration
“What. How. Why?” was the theme of the 2011 AGI Open, which took place in Barcelona from 3 to 4 October. Design Indaba was there.
15 Nov 11
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Food = fashion
Opinion
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Food Design
Can what we eat predict the future? Just like the catwalk, our plates are always chasing the next new, writes food trend forecaster Marjan Ippel.
15 Nov 11
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Fit for consumption
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Food Design
The origins of many of the most ingenious food designs have long been lost in the ubiquity of everyday consumables.
15 Nov 11
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Mass objective
Profiling
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Food Design
Tradition, culture, cooking and gastronomy aside, Martí Guixé works with food simply as an object of mass production.
15 Nov 11
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Food fight: Richard Carstens
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Food Design
Multi-award winning Cape Town chef Richard Carstens says that ethical eating has rightly become a form of political expression.
14 Nov 11
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Food fight: Anelde Greeff
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Food Design
Eat In and Eat Out editor Anelde Greeff thinks that eating design is more about the act associated with it than the final product.
14 Nov 11
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Food fight: David Cope
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Food Design
Unfortunately, says David Cope, the wealth divide is going to keep a healthy food culture out of the reach of many as long as it exists.
14 Nov 11
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Food fight: Neil Jewell
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Food Design
Chef and charcuterie expert Neil Jewell doubts whether those who get rich from mass production eat the food they make.
14 Nov 11
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Food fight: Richard Bosman
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Food Design
Cured meat artisan Richard Bosman insists that designers should not be feeding the world!
14 Nov 11
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