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07.18.24
Earthseed
06.21.24
Publishing Ecologies Panel
05.15.24
On relational architectures
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MOLD’s PICKS AT NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2024
04.12.24
MOLD’s PICKS AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2024
12.08.23
The 2023 MOLD Gift Guide
12.08.23
MOLD Potluck with All Pib Slow Play
11.02.23
Street Vendors Are Here to Stay
10.19.23
From the River to the Sea
08.24.23
What a Girl Wants (To Eat): Girl Dinner
06.29.23
The Return of the Lesbian Bar
06.22.23
THE TRUTH ABOUT EREWHON
05.19.23
My Favorite Things
03.21.23
Food Futures: Tourism, Climate Change and Tomato Season Hype
03.01.23
Food and Art: Alternative M.A.
02.15.23
Food Futures: The Liver King
02.13.23
Now We’re Not Cooking With Gas?
01.30.23
Soil Studies
01.04.23
MOLD’s 2022 Year In Review: Artist Commissions
12.30.22
MOLD’s 2022 Year In Review: Ways of Eating
12.29.22
MOLD’s 2022 Year In Review: Material Futures
12.28.22
MOLD’s 2022 Year In Review: Line of Work
12.08.22
The 2022 Mold Gift Guide
06.01.22
Unpacking the IPCC Editors Note
04.18.22
Celebrating Earth Week with sweetgreen
01.07.22
We’re Hiring an Editorial Intern
12.31.21
MOLD’s 2021 Year in Review: Artist Commissions
12.29.21
MOLD’s 2021 Year in Review: Interspecies Futures
12.28.21
MOLD’s 2021 Year In Review: Decolonization
12.27.21
MOLD’s 2021 Year in Review: Community Economics
12.08.21
20 Gifts Picks from Our Family to Yours
03.05.21
A Seed Library from Angela Dimayuga
03.05.21
Proka: A Seed Library from Mae-ling Lokko and Selassie Atadika
03.05.21
Sanctuary for Seeds: A Seed Library from Chiaozza
03.05.21
A Seed Library from Ladies & Gentlemen Studio
02.19.21
On SEEDS
12.28.20
We’re Hiring an Assistant Editor
10.11.20
Indigenize! Support Indigenous Voices in the Fight for Food Sovereignty
06.08.20
Join MOLD and Deem Journal for a SPACE10 Session on Designing Dignity and Practices of Care
03.23.20
MOLD Book Club: A Reading List for Self-Isolation
03.10.20
Who Feeds Delhi? Join us for a 3-Day Workshop at SPACE10
02.13.20
Exploring Empathy in the Kitchen, Open Call for the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial
01.22.20
Join MOLD for a Chinese New Year Dumpling Making Workshop
01.09.20
Collaborate with MOLD on the Food System Vision Prize
11.22.19
From Fish Waste to Bioplastic, MarinaTex Wins James Dyson Award 2019
11.15.19
Food Design Friday: Frog Tenders for New Yorkers, Quantifying Food Addiction and the Politics of Lab Grown Meat
10.29.19
Join MOLD for Food Lab, Exploring the Future of the Portuguese Christmas Feast
10.16.19
Food Design at Dutch Design Week 2019
10.11.19
Food Design Friday: Algal Explorations, Beer Waste Lamps and Notes from the Regenerative Food System Forum
08.21.19
MOLD Spotify x 2: An Audible Addition to your August Eats
08.12.19
MOLD’s Summit on Redesigning the Food Chain @ Copenhagen Techfestival
06.27.19
Introducing: MOLD Spotify!
05.13.19
On Designing for the Senses, MOLD Magazine Issue 04 Editor’s Note
04.09.19
MOLD’s Picks at Milan Design Week 2019
03.19.19
At the Slow Tools Conference, Foundations for Facilitating Collaboration
03.13.19
With Ginkgo Bioworks’ Creative Residency, Design a World Without Waste
03.06.19
Welcome to MOLD’s Food Futures Podcast!
02.08.19
Food Design Friday: Fridge Tinder, Out-designing Waste, and Grocery Shopping in the Future
12.21.18
19 Holiday Gifts for Growing, Exploring and Cultivating Your Love of Food
11.20.18
Chido Govera and Josh Evans on Thinking Edibility Otherwise
10.30.18
From Stun Gun to Paper Clip, Adelaide Tam’s 0.9 Grams of Brass Project Wins the 2018 Future Food Design Award
10.18.18
Join us for 24 Seasons of Rice at MOFAD
10.12.18
6 Food Design Picks for Dutch Design Week 2018
09.27.18
Smart Kitchen Summit Seattle 2018
09.21.18
Finalists for the Future Food Design Awards 2018
08.24.18
Food Design Friday: Ancient Cooking Tools Made Modern, Coffee Drones and Cage-Free Animal Crackers
08.15.18
MOLD’s Summit on Intimate Food Interfaces @ Copenhagen Techfestival
08.10.18
Food Design Friday: Self-Stirring Pots, Carrot-Infused Concrete, and A Rice Krispies Treat for Everyone
08.03.18
Food Design Friday: Making Pickles on Mars, A French Fry That’s Finally Crispy Enough, and Chopstick Origami
07.27.18
Food Design Friday: Growing Cups from Gourds, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Restaurant Playlist, and a Vegetarian Museum in Chicago
06.22.18
Food Design Friday: Licking Stamps, How to Make Your Avocados Last, and Celebrating World Refugee Day
06.19.18
Future Food Design Awards Call for Entries!
06.15.18
Food Design Friday: Branding Water, Faux Foods, Food Waste Fashions and Eating Pizza in Bed
06.08.18
Food Design Friday: An Impossible Burger Controversy, Possible Banana Extinction, and A Domino Game That Decides Dinner
05.18.18
Food Design Friday: Cats in Food, Plant-Based Steaks + Trolling the President with Ice Cream
05.03.18
The Future (of Food) Starts Here
01.08.18
Michel/Fabian on Crossmodalism and the Pleasures of the Knife, Fork, Spoon and Hand
01.01.18
二十四節気を楽しむ厳選された日本のお米をKiki Musubiがお届けします
12.01.17
The Future of Farming is Female: Recap for VICE x Delta Launchpad
10.03.17
Corn Futures, Insect Farm and a Fermentation Robot are Finalists in the first Future Food Design Award
09.07.17
The Neuroscience Behind the Impossible Burger
08.23.17
Perfectly Designed Decanters for the Discerning Cocktail Connoisseur
08.14.17
What a Croc! An Australian Art Collective’s Take on American Cuisine
08.04.17
Join Us for #MOLDMonthly at the Delta x Vice Launchpad Festival, Seattle
07.21.17
Food Design Friday: Turning Food Pics into Recipes, Why Meal Kit Businesses Fail, and What to Watch This Weekend
06.22.17
With Miguel Olivares’ Cake Table, You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
06.22.17
Join Us for #MOLDMonthly: “The Future of Farming is Female” Panel Discussion at Ludlow House
06.09.17
Food Design Friday: Eating with Frank Lloyd Wright, Shady History of Rose and Ford’s Space-Age Meat Alternative
06.02.17
Food Design Friday: Covfefe! Food + Climate Change, Nutella and Blue Apron’s IPO
06.01.17
5 Tips for Outdoor Cooking from the MOLD Monthly Salon at Ludlow House
05.26.17
Food Design Friday: An IKEA Food Incubator, Beans Over Beef and Bread Bag Clips
05.25.17
Campmojis Connect Our Digital Lives with the Thrill of the Great Outdoors
05.17.17
Preview MOLD Magazine at the Culturing Yogurt Exhibition
05.17.17
Dining with Design at Sight Unseen Presents
05.10.17
We’re Having a House Party with Sight Unseen x SONOS
05.10.17
Exploring Food, Design & Femininity with the Food Design Collective Barcelona
03.07.17
We’re Launching the First Magazine about the Future of Food
02.20.17
When Design Critic Alice Rawsthorn Celebrates Design and Food
02.10.17
Food Design Friday: In Defense of Vegetable Butchers, Quinoa Genome Project and a Cheatsheet for Wine Glasses
02.06.17
A High School Competition to Design Good Food For All
02.03.17
Food Design Friday: Life on Mars, Sushi Kit Kats and Robot Baristas
01.25.17
USA and Food Design Win Gold at Bocuse d’Or
01.23.17
Caesarstone’s Material Menu is an Elemental Feast for the Senses
01.10.17
How This BioTech Startup is Tackling Malnutrition with Engineered Probiotics
12.09.16
What to Give the Consummate Cook? Eating Tools, of Course
12.08.16
Nobel Laureates Gather to Discuss the Future of Food
12.07.16
Fill Out Our Survey and Win a Free Life Measured Pitcher!
12.01.16
How Gro Intelligence is Engaging the Next Generation of Agricultural Leaders
11.29.16
Dine on Decadent Decay with Guerilla Science
11.28.16
Ole Scheeren Sets the Stage for Dean & DeLuca at Design Miami/ 2016
11.24.16
What is Native American Cuisine? A Thanksgiving Story
11.22.16
Airbnb Gathers Visitors at the Mexican Table for Design Miami/ 2016
11.18.16
Food Design Friday: Massimo Bottura Fights Food Waste, Farmers on the Biz of Meal Kits and Mushrooms that Taste Like Bacon
11.14.16
Exploring Future Foods at SPACE10’s NYC Pop-Up
11.11.16
Food Design Friday: A Trump Food Policy, an Algorithm for Deliciousness and a Chef’s Knife from NASA
11.11.16
Olson Kundig on Designing a Visitor Center for Cheese Lovers
10.27.16
Happy Hour and a Burger Emoji Now in MoMA’s Permanent Collection
09.20.16
10 Food Design Projects to See During London Design Festival 2016
09.12.16
These Countries Are Imagining a Utopian Food Future at the Inaugural London Design Biennale
08.24.16
Reduce Food Waste and Win $25,000 from the OpenIDEO Challenge
07.12.16
From Food Computers to Banana Fiber Sanitary Pads, Here are Four Food Design Projects Honored in the 2016 Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge
06.27.16
Marble Sculpture or Cake? Kia Utzon-Frank Turns Dessert into Art
05.31.16
A Design Explosion from Artist and Creative Director Brent Rollins
05.31.16
Skateboarding and Pizza in the Wild with Photographer Jonpaul Douglass
05.30.16
A Zest of the Absurd: Set Design and Art Direction from Indonesian Duo The Taable
05.30.16
Getting in the Mood with Artist and Illustrator Ariel Roman
05.30.16
Candy Colored Digital Collages from Art Director Catherine J. Kim
05.23.16
3D Illustrator Daniel Aristizábal Surreal, Candy-Colored Pop Art
05.23.16
Start Your Day with Tyler Spangler’s Rainbow of Psychedelic Digital Collages
05.23.16
Sarah Illenberger Transforms the Everyday with Craft and Complexity
05.22.16
Still Life Takes On New Life with Dina Belenko’s Food Photography
05.22.16
A Hot Dog in a Fur Coat? Illustrator Allister Lee’s Delicious Fashion Commentary
05.16.16
Hong Kong Illustrator Vincy Cheung Draws Big Bites in a Global City
05.16.16
Lizzie Darden Designs Food Puns for the Internet
05.13.16
Get Hypnotized by Illustrator Karan Singh’s Surreal Pattern Play
05.13.16
LAZY MOM Depicts the Rise and Fall of Civilization Through SNACKS
05.13.16
A Seductive Paradise of Coconut Kisses from Lilian Martinez of BFGF
05.12.16
SNACKS Hot Off the Press: MOLD Design Week Newspaper #01
05.12.16
Keep Your Favorite Snacks Close To Your Heart with Hungry Eyes NY Lapel Pins
05.12.16
And Then God Created the Fat & Furious Burger
05.12.16
Snacking is an Art Form with CHIAOZZA’s Paper Pulp Sculptures
05.05.16
How to Make Hand-Forged Knives? The London Blacksmiths at Blenheim Forge Share the Choreography of Craft
04.29.16
A Forest That Floats? Swale NY Is Building A Sailing Farm
02.22.16
Design Talk at Parsons: How Design Can Feed a Hungry Planet
02.08.16
TV Dinners Are Not So Lonely with forkCHESTRA
02.07.16
Food Design Lovers Rejoice! Two Coastal Conferences to Feed Your Intellect
02.05.16
Time to Monkey Around: 5 Food Designs for a Lucky Lunar New Year
02.04.16
Critter Bitters Adds Cricket To Your Cocktail
02.02.16
How an 18th-Century Serial Killer Inspired Kille Enna’s Culinary Perfumery
01.29.16
Food Design Friday: Smart Tea, Pizza Math and Mario Batali’s Prison Wine
01.22.16
The Most Fashionable and Fabulous Food Designs for Friday
01.01.16
Food Design Friday: Welcoming the New Year with the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread and a Laser-Cut Tortilla for Your Next Fiesta
12.18.15
Star Wars Kitchen Designs To Awaken The Force
12.01.15
Kaleidoscopic Food Scans for Every Season by Hargreaves and Levin
11.23.15
The Perfect Vessel for Daily (and Holiday) Rituals: How To Use the Life Measured Pitcher
11.13.15
Meat Marble Lights Up Dutch Design Week
10.09.15
Food Design Friday: A Veggie Burger that Bleeds, Techno Toast and Choco-Inspiration
09.18.15
8 Food Design Projects to See at London Design Festival 2015
08.27.15
Sky Urban Vertical Farming System Wins 2015 INDEX: Award
08.20.15
TONIGHT! Life Measured Pitcher West Coast Launch at Object/BCAD
08.05.15
Life Measured: Waking Up with Andy Spade, Co-founder of Partners & Spade, Sleepy Jones
08.04.15
Life Measured: Watering Plants with Taylor Johnston, Horticulturist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Founder of Gamine Co. Workwear
07.30.15
Life Measured: Making Coffee with Steven Sutton, Owner of Devoción
07.28.15
A Vessel for Your Daily Rituals: Introducing the Life Measured Pitcher
07.28.15
Life Measured: How MOLD x Visibility Designed for Human Measurements
07.15.15
Alice Rawsthorn’s Ode to a Milanese Cutlery Store
07.12.15
DesignMarketo Workshops Grains for Thoughts for Station to Station
07.10.15
Gyotaku: The Japanese Art of Fish Prints
07.03.15
Food Design Friday: Ugly Veggies, Sea Farms and the Quest for the Perfect Tortilla
06.08.15
Lessons Learned from Hand Carving 365 Wooden Spoons: The Daily Spoon by Stian Korntved Ruud
05.28.15
Fat & Furious Burger is “Everything Good Between Two Buns”
05.25.15
What France’s Ban on Supermarket Food Waste Means for Food Design
05.14.15
5 Food and Design Projects to See During New York Design Week 2015
05.12.15
MOLD x Visibility Debut the Life Measured Pitcher for New York Design Week
04.10.15
Food Design Friday: 3D Food Printing Conference, Plant Packaging and Breakfast with Gaetano Pesce
04.06.15
Marije Vogelzang on Shit, Food Non Food and Why Food Is the Most Important Material In the World
04.03.15
Food Design Friday: Peep This, Farm-to-Table Seder and Gluten-Free Art
03.30.15
Eat Shit! Preview Design Academy Eindhoven’s 2015 Salone del Mobile Milan Exhibition
03.30.15
Visit the Farms of the Future in the New Documentary, America’s Shrinking Farms
03.20.15
Food Design Friday: Feminist Beer, 100 Years of Packaging and a Farewell to Food
03.17.15
Grow, Griddle and Grill with Satellite, A Modular Outdoor Kitchen System
03.13.15
Food Design Friday: A Sushi Bar as Art, Industrial Insect Farms and the Cosmos in Your Kitchen
03.03.15
The Tomorrow Collective Explores Design Heritage for Future Living
02.16.15
How Do Fonts Affect Our Food?
The Type Taster
Investigates
02.13.15
Food Design Friday: Burger Branding, Finger Licking and Tea Time
02.12.15
The Week in Soy Sauce Packaging: Saying Goodbye to Designer Kenji Ekuan
01.30.15
Food Design Friday: A PhD in Spoons, Oreos in Cans and Designing NYC’s Water Fountains
01.23.15
Food Design Friday: Packaging Trends for 2015, Crochet Popsicle Hats and How McDonald’s Makes French Fries
01.16.15
Relax in Nendo’s Chocolate Lounge at Maison et Objet
01.14.15
Cook Your Way With Massimo Aurelio Cappella’s
One Way
Kitchen Tools
01.08.15
Food Design Friday: Schematics to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, Designer Chicken Coops and a Visit to the Pope’s Farm
12.16.14
Tool Time: The Best Knife for Making a Crown Roast, Chef Angie Mar of the Beatrice Inn
12.12.14
Food Design Friday: Higher Learning, Insect Farming and Bio-Packaging
12.03.14
25 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Food Design Lover on Your List
12.02.14
Let Them Eat Cake! Chamber x PIN-UP for Art Basel Miami Beach
11.21.14
Food Design Friday: Martha Stewart x MakerBot, Farming in Deep Space
11.14.14
Food Design Friday: Happy Hour Just Got Better
10.30.14
Tumblers for Two: BCXSY and Lobmeyr for Vienna Design Week 2014
10.03.14
Food Design Friday: 3 Competitions to Sink Your Teeth Into
09.25.14
Chamber: NYC’s Newest Design Destination
09.05.14
Food Design Friday: 5 Food-Inspired Fashion Moments
07.10.14
“Sin Tapa,” A Playful Pairing of Food and Photography
06.24.14
Sunday, June 29: NYC Launch of Aureola Tea Set by Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva
06.01.14
Didn’t Get to Try to a Cricket Summer Roll? Here’s What Else You May Have Missed at our OFFSITE Cafe + Exhibition
05.15.14
New York Design Week: MOLD Future Food Exhibition + Cafe at Sight Unseen OFFSITE
03.12.14
Where’s the Beef? Biotech Companies Shape the Future of Meat
03.10.14
Feed Your Mind: King’s College Festival of Food and Ideas
02.28.14
Required Reading: “Matters of Taste,” Julie Lasky on Food Design
02.26.14
Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity
02.22.14
Call for Entries: Kitchen Becomes Open, Valcucine’s Innovation Workshop for Salone Milan 2014
02.21.14
Design Spotting: 3 Pour Over Coffee Makers Worth Getting Up For
02.13.14
DWR Champagne Chair Contest 2014 Winners
01.17.14
Tom Dixon Debuts Barware Collections at Maison & Objet
01.16.14
Burritobox Dispenses Hot, All-Natural Burritos from The World’s First Burrito Vending Machine
12.01.13
Holiday Gift Guide: Our Top 30 Picks for the Food + Design Lover on Your List
12.01.13
Nendo Designs a Taste of Color with chocolate-paint for Seibu
10.31.13
Happy Halloween! Sight Unseen x Snarkitecture’s Designer and Architect Pumpkin Carving Contest
10.15.13
The Future Food House at the World Food Festival
09.13.13
DesignMarketo x Le Labo Explore Pepper in Perfume, Sir?
08.23.13
Wendy’s Grill Skills: The Square Patty Rap
08.21.13
Eyes as Big As Plates, Finnish Seniors Shrouded in Vegetation and Folklore
07.12.13
Le Laboratoire Wants You to Inhale Your Food
07.08.13
Design of Cutlery Changes the Way We Taste Food
07.01.13
BOOM! The Museum of Food and Drink Launches with a 3,200-pound Puffing Gun
06.03.13
A Nautilus Bowl for the Disabled