today and tomorrow

Almost 3 weeks ago, Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura started to build the Breakfast Machine during Platform21 = Jamming in Amsterdam. The machine is a Rube Goldberg machine which can serve you an omelet, coffee and a toast with jam.
Yuri and Masa invited other designers and the public to help build and design the machine. They’ve used recycled remnants of previous Platform21 projects to solve all the different problems to get to their goal.
Last weekend the machine was ready and served all-day breakfasts to the visitors.

This video is actually in Dutch but you can see the Breakfast Machine in action.

Here are 2 short video of early tests. The first one is a test for the Egg Machine, the second for the Tea Machine.

Chopsticks Plus One and Two is a design project by Aïssa Logerot. He designed 2 different sets of chopsticks. The first one is a hybrid with a spoon and can be used for different dishes. The second set contains a toothpick.

found at designboom weblog

Food Design Probes is a research project by Philips. They developed ideas how we will eat and source our food in the future, like in 15 to 20 years. There are 3 products we might have in our homes by then:

The Nutrition Monitor. It basically has 3 parts, a sensor which you have to swallow, a scanner which can measure the nutritional value of food and a display device. So you’ll exactly know what your body needs and what kind of effect your food will have on it.

The Food Printer. Remember the 3D sugar printer? Well, this is the next generation. The machine brings molecular gastronomy to your kitchen. “Feed” is with some ingredients, pick a shape, let it print … and voilà your amazing 3D dish is ready. I can’t wait to see all the opensource 3D recipes that will be available!

Biosphere Home Farm. It’s a 21st century aquarium crossed with stylish shelving unit, it contains fish, plants and other mini ecosystems.

And this is how your plates could look like.

Baked Alaska

An assortment platter from left, papaya sorbet with yogurt crust, grapes of foie, chicken and sweetcorn chowder, mojito mis en bouche.

Papaya sorbet with a yoghurt crust.

Bird’s nest soup.

Death by chocolate.

Grapes of foie.

found at wallpaper magazine

Green Pink Caviar is an eight minute high definition video by Marilyn Minter. She filmed some models licking candy and cake decoration, from under a pane of glass. Very lush!

The mouth is one of her favorite subjects. She paints some of her photographs on metal with translucent enamel paint to produce luminous finish. And they are huge, this first image “Quails Egg” measures 7 by 4 foot. The 2 other images are large C-Prints.

found at DTYBYWL

“Global Street Food” is an exhibition curated by Mike Meiré for Dornbracht Edges.

“Global Street Food” is dedicated to the fascination with improvised kitchens in public places. Urban fast food stations navigating the contrast between pragmatic dilettantism and complexity in the smallest of spaces.

You can see it at the Vitra Design Museum till July 12th in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

“Coffee waggon” from Buenos Aires, Argentina

“Cotton candy stand” from Buenos Aires, Argentina

“Grill” from Kampala, Uganda

“Floating market” from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

„Cheese and sausage stand” from Buenos Aires, Argentina

“The Seed” is a short film made by Johnny Kelly about nature’s life cycle. He used a mixture of stop motion papercraft and 2D drawn animation. It was commissioned by Adobe to promote their Creative Suite 4. On the Adobe Artists website, you can see the work of Nando Costa, work by Genevieve Gauckler & Erik Natzke and Cisma will be added later this month.

The making of “The Seed”:

Scanwiches: scans of sandwiches. I’m hungry now.

found at i heart photograph

A nice idea by Curro Claret.

Tea Fountain by Sonja Vordermaier.

found at FFFFOUND!

Fort Knox is a luxurious wine rack reserved for a single bottle, designed by Sietze Kalkwijk.