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Donuts, already a work of art, have been rethought and made museum-quality by artist, Jae Yong Kim.
Using standard holed and filled donuts as inspiration, Jae creates pop culture-tinged ceramic versions — modifying the shapes a bit and expertly painting and glazing them.
See more of Jae’s work below and over on Instagram.
A filled soy dish is a wonderful thing, because it often means that sushi is imminent. But, let’s face it, a plain ol’ soy dish looks like nothing more than a salty black pool.
Tokyo-based product designer, Duncan Shotton, is here to change that with Soy Shapes. The ceramic dishes are designed to reveal 3-D optical illusions when filled.
The “impossible” triangle and cube dishes are currently on Kickstarter. You can find out more about the project here.
[link, via Spoon & Tamago]
Before food was in high-def, as we see it today, it was all pixelated… True story. Apparently, artist Toshiya Masuda remembers 8-bit foodstuffs, and has created a brilliant art series, titled Low Pixel CG.
Masuda’s food and everyday objects are made from ceramic, with additional pixels painted in. Masuda refers to this merging of media as “image gap,” where the analog transitions into the digital. Check out more here.
[link, via Spoon & Tamago]
A few years ago, we were introduced to The Fifty United Plates, a series of handmade ceramic plates representing all 50 States.
Although, at the time, it was merely a Kickstarter campaign, we can now have our beloved States in plate-form. Check out the entire collection for sale here.
I also hear that there’s a collection of State-shaped food that would fit perfectly in each one.
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We’re not sure if it’s proper sushi etiquette to do so, but you can now dip your raw fish and rice in the Skull Soy Dish.
Designed to look like a skull when filled, the dish comes with a set of chopsticks, to help complete the skull and crossbones effect. And, if it’s not sushi night, you can always fill up the skull with oil and vinegar for bread dipping.
The set includes one ceramic dish with bamboo chopsticks. New at The Foodiggity Shop.
