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Why finish an illustration with boring ink, when there are perfectly good foodstuffs that’ll really help tie that drawing together?
Artist Kristián Mensa, a.k.a. mr. kriss, uses food and other everyday objects in his illustrations. Whether it’s rigatoni as a ship’s smokestack or spaghetti as guitar strings, Mensa’s illustrations are a great way to combine ink and edibles.
See more below and over at Instagram.
We’ve certainly seen our share of coffee cup art. The often stark white drinking vessels have become a blank canvas for brilliant typography, comic strips, and have even gone 3-D.
Tokyo-based artist Adrian Hogan is now taking the medium panoramic, with an Instagram video series. Hogan illustrates a scene on a cup, then takes us through his surroundings with a slow twist. Check out more below and over at Instagram.
If you’re looking to add some excitement to your BBQ party, and want to instill fear into your backyard guests, there’s the Machete Spatula.
Made from stainless steel with a sturdy oak handle, the spatula will help carve a path to the most successful backyard bash ever. And, if you’re looking to deliver swift vigilante justice to a beer, it even has a handy bottle opener.
Check it out here.
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I’m not sure if this project by Dutch artists Lernert and Sander gets me hungry, inspired, or makes me want to do geometry.
Nonetheless, the artists created Cubes, where they cut and arranged raw foods into ninety-eight, meticulously-cut, 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm cubes.
The project was commissioned by Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant for their their food-themed photography special. Now excuse me, while I go have some lunch and do math.
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Mornings are hard. And, we don’t need the added responsibility, or have the time to manually shovel cereal into our face.
Luckily, Ivan Owen and his daughter are here to help save our mornings. The crafty duo invented a Cereal-Eating Machine… and it’s built for speed.
It’s certainly not built for efficiency, as more cereal will probably wind up on the kitchen floor than in your mouth. No mention if the duo has plans to mass produce their morning-enhancing invention. In the meantime, dads will have to come up with another way to piss off mom before work.
Please watch this…