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This Beautiful Fruit Infographic Is So Well-Designed It’s Worth Printing and Framing

May 31, 2013 Art

The brother of this fantastic fruit infographic is one all about vegetables. It’s so great that I own it and it hangs proudly in my kitchen. Last night as I ate dinner, in fact, I stared at the pantheon of vegetables, trying to figure out where my kale fit in, and what the heck some of the rarer vegetables were. Now Pop Chart Lab has an equally impressive poster out and it’s all about fruit! It’s a mere $30 right now, order yourself one and start learning about all sorts of fruits you’ve never heard of before! Via FastCoDesign:

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Animals

Making an Insect Menu Chic

April 10, 2013 Animals

Fast CoExist has an article about the future of food, and it involves creepy crawlies. You’ve probably heard that insects are sometimes considered the food of the future because they’re high in protein, low in fat, and take a fraction of the resources to farm and produce. The biggest hurdle for us in the West, though, is to make them appealing. Enter a UK startup called Ento (Bento box + Entomology) that aims to make insect-based food appealing, and even sexy. Their asian-influence stems from the notion that a clean and slightly exotic take on edible bugs may work to bring in skeptical (and squeamish) eaters. After all, it was only a few decades back that sushi was an odd and revolting concept to many Westerners. Cricket sashimi, anyone?

Ento – the art of eating insects from Ento on Vimeo.

Documentary Film

Visualizing What 200 Calories Looks Like

February 24, 2013 Documentary Film

Not that counting calories is encouraged, but it is helpful to sometimes know what the food you’re eating stacks up to, calorie-wise.

Here’s a smattering of 200 calorie portions.

Apples

Jack in the Box Cheeseburger

Canned Black Beans

Werther’s Originals Candy

Jack in the Box Chicken Sandwich

Broccoli

Glazed Doughnut

French Sandwich Roll

Avocado

Corn

Baby Carrots

Canned Peas

Celery

Coca Cola

Doritos

Dried Apricots

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Art

Surfing on Cranberries

December 16, 2012 Art

You didn’t think you’d want to watch people wakeboard on cranberry bogs. But you do!

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Colossal:

The annual harvesting of cranberries has to be one of the most ingenius methods of fruit farming there is. Every fall after the berries ripen on the vine, instead of being picked by people or machine the fields are flooded with water from a nearby reservoir. Because the berries are filled with air, all it takes is a gentle nudge from a special tractor to knock them loose and float them to the surface where they are quickly and easily collected by the tasty, tart kabillions.

Lucky for us a film crew over at Redbull asked the important question: “What would happen if you pulled a wakeboarder through the ocean of cranberries and filmed with high speed HD film?” This glorious video is the result. The team assures us that no cranberries were injured during production. (via devour)

Design

Food Photography

October 31, 2010 Design

Via TheDesignerPad:

You have to give it up for IKEA for coming up with new and innovative things for their customers. They utilize cool design and clever solutions in everything they do. But their new cookbook titled Hembakat är Bäst —which means “Homemade is Best”— has taken the art of cooking to a new high. The exquisite photography was shot by Carl Kleiner and deliciously styled by Evelina Bratell. The ingredient images for all thirty recipes are truly pieces of art. From the playful compositions to the color schemes, all images are simply eye candy. They’re like design mood boards for cooking. Any one of them can easily translate into themes for decorating a room, or at least they could make any kitchen wall sing by just framing them. BTW, you can definitely judge this book by its creative cover.