Cream ceramics and leathers, blond corrugated wood, the Graffiti Cafe, Varna, Bulgaria by Studio Mode via The Contemporist.
Design
Today’s astonishing talent: Hong Yi makes pictures using coffee and the bottom of her coffee cup.
The piece took 12 hours to make. Back story and video.
via the apt InspireMeNow
Read MoreWhen it’s shot and marketed like this:
but only until you look into its face, sadly:
Pedantic, unbeautiful, disappointing. That skull motif — not what I’d like to look at every morning.
How design can do a swan dive. How a Ferrari became a Lada.
The Brunopasso via TwoWheels+ designed by Tadahito Ishibashi.
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It’s hard to make it out from this pic, but that’s a tiny bee punctuating this charming logo. And that’s really how small those miraculous little guys really are.
Why it works: the story is that they’ve put their name on this honey. They own it.
Equally charming, the packaging:
via Behance, but where’s the designer credit?
Begs the question, why an ampersand?
A thing of beauty to hold together the two main ingredients.
By Andreas Neophytou via ffffound
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You can taste them, and the photog captured the message. Machines don’t do this.
By Graphic Exchange via ffffound.
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The puzzle board by Dutch designer OOMS via @swissmiss.
I was happy to see them until they became a novelty.
This handy-for-hors d’oeurves feature is a bit of trying too hard, although I’ve seen similar deals at Feast of Fields, for gourmands traveling from chef station to chef station. But a room full of my guests walking around w/these things? I don’t see it.
Otherwise, I love them.
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Seriously. By Felix Sockwell via ShareSomeCandy. Perfect for that bike food cart you’ve been dying to launch.
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