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Created for French culinary magazine Fricote, artist Emilie de Griottes created tarts in the form of Pantone color swatches. Arranged on a tart base, colorful foodstuffs match the color of its respective Pantone number. Now your dessert can finally match the drapes.
[link, via designboom]
We’ve all received one at one time or another… The restaurant “guest check.” Most likely it came after breakfast at the diner or luncheonette, and the closest thing to art on it, was a smiley face drawn by the waitress. Guest Checks is a site dedicated to something that never gets old — taking the mundane and making it beautiful.
After the response we received from the Bacon and Egg Mittens posted here at Foodiggity, I wanted to find out more about the artist responsible. And I’m sure glad that I did.
San Francisco-based artist, Twinkie Chan, not only creates fingerless mittens of the ultimate breakfast, but also does beautiful needleworks of scarves, brooches, and cozies — all inspired by food.
Whether it’s a brilliantly-bricky donut, or immortalizing the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, the LEGO works of Bruce Lowell need to be checked out. And renderings of actual foodstuffs is only a small part of what Lowell can do with LEGOs, as he’s also been known to construct the occasional KitchenAid Stand Mixer, and even a replica of a Pasadena In-N-Out Burger.
See a lot more of Lowell’s works of food, Star Wars, and other pop culture phenomena here.
Apologies for all of the hyperrealism lately, but the works of Doug Bloodworth were far too awesome to pass up. Combining an obvious love for classic comics, junk food and pop art, Bloodworth creates these large scale paintings that would make any foodie or comic book geek drool.
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