food | Design Indaba

Cook This Page wants to make cooking new things easy and fun

Design News > Food Design / Interaction Design

Interactive IKEA recipes demonstrate just how deliciously simple creativity can be. >

17 Jul 17
Growing mushrooms in camel dung to raise planetary chickens

Talks > African Design / Food Design

Belgian chicken artist Koen Vanmechelen and Zimbabwean activist Chido Govera talk about the Planetary Community Chicken Project at Design Indaba 2017. >

12 Jul 17
Using your eyes to trick your stomach

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design

Eating designer Marije Vogelzang explores the relationship between the eyes, the stomach and the appetite in her new project, Volumes. >

4 May 17
A photographer and a chef collaborate on this series of deconstructed dishes

Design News > Art & Photography / Food Design

“A good menu is a story, with its own narrative arc. Tension is built and released, emotions are evoked and questions are raised.” >

3 May 17
A new way to experience the township of Khayelitsha

Design News > Creative Economy / Food Design

Food as a way to experience a South African township. >

3 Feb 17
Siba Mtongana

Siba Mtongana is a South African celebrity chef and food writer. >

31 Jan 17
The dummy's guide to cricket fondue

Design News > Food Design / Product Design

Would we be more willing to eat insects if the recipes came with specially designed cutlery and cooking utensils? >

6 Dec 16
Michael Elegbedé: The taste of Nigeria

Video Interviews > African Design / Food Design

Nigerian chef Michael Elegbedé is opening a restaurant in Lagos that tells the stories of Nigeria through unique flavours and local ingredients. >

1 Dec 16
A delicious way to die

Design News > Art & Photography / Food Design

This surreal cookbook details the most heavenly ways to enter the afterlife. >

14 Nov 16
The drone you can eat

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

Edible and unmanned, this drone could be a game-changer for aid delivery. >

17 Oct 16
Through the eyes of a chef with Elena Arzak

Talks > Food Design

The restaurants of San Sebastián, Spain are home to Michelin stars and gastronomy and Arzak is no different. >

7 Oct 16
Chat with Luke Dale-Roberts

Video Interviews > African Design / Food Design

We're giving you the chance to chat with South Africa's best chef, Luke Dale-Roberts in an interview where you take control. >

21 Sep 16 / Brand Collaboration
Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds

Design Frontiers > Food Design / Interaction Design

Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible. >

12 Jul 16
Twenty-Fifty: A visualisation of the world’s food crisis

Next Generation > Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration

Designer Gemma Warriner is trying to make the global food crisis we face in 2050 accessible by representing the data in vegetables. >

22 Jun 16
Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food. >

31 May 16
Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Food Design

Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub. >

5 May 16
Redesign Meat at the Slagerij de Hamvraag

Inside View > Food Design

Food designers rethink the meat industry in a series of talks and discussions at the Slagerij de Hamvraag pop up butchery in the Netherlands. >

7 Apr 16
Nendo’s distinctive chocolates are a journey into shape, taste and texture

Design News > Food Design

Nendo, the Japanese design firm, took on something that a number of people consider perfect in its design: chocolate. >

22 Feb 16
Data Cuisine's dishes are a visual, edible representation of information

Design News > Food Design

The chefs at Data Cuisine design special data dishes to ask and answer questions about the information in our lives. >

18 Dec 15
LIVIN Farm’s Hive lets you grow and farm your own mealworms

Product Spotlight > Food Design

A desktop hive for the kitchen allows users to feed, farm then eat their own mealworms. >

25 Nov 15
Taste, sound and history combine to form Bompas & Parr’s British Museum of Food

Design News > Food Design

Bompas & Parr showcase the most exciting elements of cooking and cuisine at the British Museum of Food. >

27 Oct 15
Artist Dan Cretu’s quirky creations are made entirely out of food

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Thinking

Food designer, photographer, and eco-artist Dan Cretu creates zany sculptures using fruit and veg. >

26 Oct 15
Self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids about healthy living

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

Interactive, self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids how to grow and cook food. >

8 Sep 15
Ripe Near Me takes the local organic food market online

Design News > Food Design / Interaction Design

Get fresh fruit and veg from the neighbours via an app that encourages homegrown food sharing. >

6 Jul 15

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