We’ve all played with our food at one time or another. Perhaps drawing our favorite team’s logo with the mashed potatoes [Go Devils!], or arranging our peas to form the Batman logo. The person behind Foogos still plays with their food. But unlike most dinnertime artists, this food-player brings an art degree and agency experience to the table… and is obviously an adult. The results are works of food art that mom won’t yell at you for.
Duff Beer, the fictional brew that has been the foundation for some of the best storylines and Homer quotes in The Simpsons history, is real now. Although three-dimensional Duff has been seen in various forms before, and might be about eleven seasons too late for anyone to care, it’s now as close to the actual cartoon version as ever.
The Bacon Alphabet, by artist Harry Hargreaves, is a perfect tool for teaching your kids their ABCs, while nurturing their appreciation for pork fat. Or, you can simply enjoy the greatest font series ever. Either way… bacon.
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Brought to us by EIGA, and with the help of 54 designers, artists and architects, EAT! will get you through each week with the best food art of the past year. Inspired by popular trends in food and design, and using a range of mediums in a weekly planner format, EAT! perpetuates the concept of food as art, and its relationship to daily culture. Happy 2012!
Apparently, almost any tagline for any major brand can be interpreted as inappropriate — or extremely appropriate for selling condoms. And because we’re obviously a nation of perverts, a new Tumblr blog called New Condoms, proves the point.
