It is impossible not to smile and fall in love with this banana boat! The Danish artist Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen has a lot of sailor inspired works in his portfolio –form beautiful tattoo- drawings under the title  “Between the devil and the deep blue”, to funny and smart installations and objects like this Banaba boat and the floating anchor. I really like his humorous twist on things!  See more pictures after the jump, and please visit his site in order to get inspired, have a laugh and to be amazed! (more…)

My birthday is coming up this Tuesday and I am trying to figure out what to serve for my family.  Since it is a raining is Oslo today I am going through all the great baking-sites I have in my bookmarks, and I must say that the last couple of years the trends within baking and food design has really grown to become a big thing. Styling and photography has really a big part of the growing popularity for blogs like Bakerella and Tartelette.  As a designer, who loves things that looks good, and as a person with a really big sweet thooth, I can’t help but to get inspired! See my list of great food and bakery sites after the jump! (more…)

Its minus 20 degrees in Oslo today and nothing is more tempting than just staying at home, enjoying a hot cup of chocolate. Especially when it looks as delicate as this hotchocspoon from the Dutch Chocolate company. The hotchocspoons comes in 46 different and quite creative flavors… from strawberry and pink pepper to seaweed, 85% cocoa , or what about having one WITH a whisky or amaretto shot? More pics after the jump…

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Once again I’ve found a nice example of how you can combine your passion for typography and design with food and bakeries. Woodward Design have put together a typographical feast of desserts just in time for the holidays. Eight sweet recipes, where the of the food is accessorized with W’s, for the love of typography and Woodward Design. The cookbook includes font uses and recipe sources and comes in a limited edition of 500 ex…or you can enjoy the online version. Perfect Christmas gift for the dessert and/or typography lover.

Ok, snails might not be the most delicate food if you think of it as slimy, small animals, but when they are served in the proper way they become the most delicate dish. So for me it seems a little strange that Manuel Jouvin chose to make this packaging for cooked snail out of snail excrements, a material so far away from delicate and exclusive as you might get. In fact, in order to give it the right colour, snails are encouraged to eat coloured paper witch again will give a coloured poop! No doubt it looks good, and I am positively surprised of how the material has transformed into a good-looking packaging.

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