I just saw this on TV a moment ago and I am breaking my number one rule (I hate the ugly YouTube player and forbid myself from embedding it) just to share it with you.
It’s a look into McCain’s adorable potato product factory. The mere idea that there are sweet potatoes which are “hugged” with garlic and rosemary makes my heart melt…
…and my tummy rumble…
So now you can eat your chips, wedges and potato smilies and try to pretend they weren’t made in a factory that actually looks alot more like this than the enchanting factory in the video above. Sorry guys!!
Political irony from Nick Cross “Yellow Cake – a lamentable tragedy mixed full of pleasant mirth”
If the cuteness of old cartoons like Silly Symphonies had a baby with Ren & Stimpy, and it sat down to tell the tale of western imperialism…. this would be it.
So some of you may know that when I am hungry I like to Google/Flickr my food cravings, it never helps to subdue my food wants, and it usually ends in me trying to make something elaborate for myself to eat.
Well, I have been reading Luxirare for a while and while some of her foods are probably a bit too rare or far too difficult for me to make, (like these crisps, sea urchin, this cake, this eggs benedict and this insanely elaborate avacado salad… but having said that, I am going to make these pie pops this weekend) I love this bento box.
3 delicious courses boxed up, including these jelly shots, a cobb salad (Bacon, cheese, lettuce, avocado and grilled chicken), teeny tiny sandwiches (Turkey, bacon, avocado, mayo) and a shrimp roll (chives, cucumber, soba noodles, carrots and fried egg ribbons), then banana, peanut butter and chocolate sandwich! Yummy yum yum.
When describing the recipe Luxirare says:
Are you a trust fund baby in your late twenties about to be cut off from your parent’s “flowing” bank account? Are you currently caught in a domestic dispute? Is your boyfriend texting you less? I have a little solution here that *might* work. Pack a lunch for that person. But be deliberate.
Using the archetype of traditional sushi rolls, I built a bento box (Japanese lunch with compartmentalized sections of food usually meticulously presented and wrapped) with three separate courses.
Take a look at some more of these pictures below and gaze in wonderment at the amount of detail that went into making this bento. Completely adorable!! It was so difficult trying to decide which pictures to blog, skip over to Luxirare to see the rest of them.
I found these amazingly cute Recipe and Stationary boxes over at Sugar Paper. I absolutely LOVE them and want them both!
But I can’t.
Mainly because the stationary set alone is $395.00 (£247), it includes 50 gold label bee note sets with white envelopes + honey comb liners, 50 gold label apple note sets with white envelopes + diagonal stripe liners, 100 note sheets bordered with gold and plain white envelopes, and a solid brass letter opener. Take a peek at these pictures, and marvel at their lovely little details.
The recipe box is less at $96.00 (£60) it’s crafted using raspberry lacquer and houses 100 recipe cards divided in six categories: breakfast, lunch, dinner, starters, sweets… and family recipes. The other problem is that they are all the way over in Los Angeles or you could guarantee I would have both of these beauties in my studio and my kitchen.
So, I was responsible for designing this range of products, print and packaging to accompany the release of the latest Wallace & Gromit animated movie “A Matter of Loaf and Death”. This is not all the products as there are actually about 40 different items in this first range (I’m working with Aardman on the 2nd range now)
As you may have read earlier this week, these designs have come highly commended in Gift of the Year Award 2009!
I’ve been waiting to get my mitts on these pictures for a long time, as usually happens with designing products, I send off the print ready artwork and then with the production time involved, before you know it, it’s months before I get to see the final pieces.
I’m super pleased to have worked on this, and with the 2nd range now in progress which will include more ceramic items like teapots, eggcups, jugs, cheese and cake plates I hope it can be even better than the last one!
I LOVED the Fantastic Mr Fox stories when I was little, and you may remember me saying that my favourite movie director of all time is Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenembaums, The Darjeeling Ltd, Hotel Chevalier, Rushmore…) so you can guess my delight when I read that Wes Anderson is directing this stop-motion animated (There is nothing more magical than stop-motion, can this get any more endearing?) movie adaptation of Fantastic Mr Fox!!
AND as if that wasn’t good enough already, Bill Murray is in it! I’m so excited about it I broke my cardinal rule and embedded the hideous YouTube player just so you can all see it in HD. I caaaaan’t wait! ^_^
Cute video for U2′s single “I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight” written and directed by David OReilly and designed by Jon Klassen. See David’s Vimeo profile over here for more vids and be sure to check out his portfolio website for more awesome imagery.
