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With help from the Union Square Greenmarket and Photoshop, Malaysian-born artist Tattfoo Tan created the Nature Matching System. By photographing produce and then pinpointing colors using Photoshop’s eyedrop tool, Tan created a sort of Pantone swatch book for nutrition.
But instead of matching spot and process colors like Pantone, the NMS and its 88 colors represent naturally occurring phytochemicals and beneficial nutrients — encouraging us to eat by color.
Nothing says ‘hostile employer’ quite like a rebellious ambigram. The Bullshit/Meeting Mug, available at the NeatoShop, can help quietly voice your disgust for soul-sucking creative briefs, or your fourth status meeting of the day.
Available at the NeatoShop for $9.95. [link]
Here at Foodiggity, we very rarely venture outside of our comfort zone of food-related topics. However we do make an occasional exception for a few subjects… and Muppets is one of them.
The Anatomy of a Cupcake is brought to us by artist Sarah Wilson and photographer Allen Hemberger. The handy infographic of sorts has been floating around the internet for a while, but it’s now available as a print — so it’s news again.
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Everyone has their opinions on upcoming food trends, most of which are usually uneducated and pretentious. And since no one takes the piss quite like The Onion, they want in on the food trend fanaticism.
From their solution to the overdone slider, to continuing the relentless small plate backlash — no trend is safe. Although I really hope that Pan-Asian Whatsits is an actual thing.