MiamMiam

Look what I found today! Madame Miammiam is a wonderful pastry shop in Cologne, run by Anne. The sight of her cakes and candies made my mouth water.
www.madamemiammiam.de

Happy Easter

Yesterday I coloured Easter eggs and decorated them with old former DDR Easter egg stickers...I felt like six years old...

For Coffee Lovers

For Italian Expresso Coffee lovers! The author of this series of unusual and unique Expresso Coffee Cups is Colleen Corradi Brannigan, an Italian based artist.
www.myexpresso.etsy.com

maka le wakan

Cathy Savels is a Belgian artist/artisan based in France. Originally trained as an interior designer, over the past seven years Cathy has been using her creative skill to produce original art works and home decorations. Cathy's works combine the traditional medium of painting with the use of other materials such as string, paper, beans, wood and cloth to create beautiful textured works which are both striking and accessible for the viewer.
www.makalewakan.etsy.com
www.cathysavels.com

DELICIOUS

Mauro is an artisan chocolatier from Belgium. His speciality are handmade chocolates. In his atelier there is just one machine... his computer! Everything is made by hand. Thats why he only makes about 15 kg chocolates per day.

www.mauroz.etsy.com

PUNKTATA

Are you hungry? Handprinted neck scarf made of 100% silk. Made by Punktata, buy at Tschau Tschüssi!
de.dawanda.com/shop/TschauTschuessi
www.punktata.de

The Bread Units

The Bread Units - A Day in the Life of Le Corbusier

The LeCorbusier Bread Workshop is about bread, friends, the modulor and human proportions.

The idea is that people make bread units to replace centimeters and use it to measure other people. Each participant will choose a part of their body to use as a measuring unit, make a bread that has the length/shape and then use this unit to measure other people.

The idea is a combination of the concept of the Le Corbusier’s Modulor and the ‘copain’ idea. Copain is the French word for ‘friend’ and means ‘with bread’ (co: with; pain: bread, so a friend is someone you share your bread with). This is the starting point for the ‘bread workshops’, which are using bread as a tool for communication (and graphic design in a broad sense)

1. Choose one of your body parts as a ‘body unit’.
2. Use the dough to make it to scale and bake it.
3. Transfer your ‘body unit’ to the paper meter and use it to measure someone else.
4. Write the results on the card, and enjoy the bread!

A printed card will then be used to explain the equation. As an example, if i decide to use my ear as a measurement unit, i will bake a bread in the shape of the ear and then use it to measure someone else arm. The card will then say: Lea’s arm is 8 1/2 Alex ears. Or, Alex arm measures 10 Lea’s noses… etc.

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Alexandre Bettler - freelance graphic / object / social design

www.aalex.info

Caroline et Geraldine

Caroline et Geraldine are two creatives from France who loves to design everyday commodities. Visit their HAPPY shop!
www.carolineetgeraldine.com

New plates.

Now available at my Dawanda shop:
de.dawanda.com/shop/jodii

Naschpirat

yummy,yummy! handmade fruit gums.
www.naschpirat.de
de.dawanda.com/shop/naschpiratschaetze

Food Design

Graduated at the Design academy in Eindhoven in 2000, Marije Vogelzang set her mind on creating a new direction in the field of design. Starting Proef in 2004 in Rotterdam and expanding to Amsterdam in 2006, she broadens her experiments and develops her vision to design out of the verb of eating. After 10 years of experience she is concidered a pioneer and the ‘grand dame’ in the field of eating design (de Volkskrant).
In Proef (a creative design studio where food concepts are developed and executed) you can work relaxed at the big table, have a break in our herbs garden or cuddle one of the chickens if you’re sick and tired of the meeting you are in.
It is possible to marry in Proef, you can ask the civil servant to come to our studio!
When the sun is shining, you can eat outside or share a picknick at a nice place in the park. In the studio you can give a presentation while the fireplace is heated up. Meanwhile you can see the chefs create the most delicious meals and serve in the same space. They like to tell you more about the taste and the honest ingredients we work with. In Proef the food tells a story and we think it is important to think together with our clients. Food concepts are tailor made.

That sounds just wonderful to me...I hope, I can visit this place soon!

AND, there is a great book available: EAT LOVE

Don´t forget to visit their interesting and well designed website:
www.proefamsterdam.nl