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THE 2024 MOLD GIFT GUIDE
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Playing the Field
A Boardgame from Bakudapan Food Study Group Illuminates the Factors of Food Crisis
Project
Building a Design Taxonomy with the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
Reimagining the Plastic Bread Tag
Project
Rigs and Jigs
Tools That Make Tools That Make Objects
Project
Shaping Sonic Utopias with MYCOAUDIO
Project
Raccogliere
Tools for intertidal coexistence
Book Review
(Home Works): A Cooking Book
Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work
Project
THE TOASTER-TYPEWRITER: AN INVESTIGATION OF HUMOR IN DESIGN
Interview
On Dining as Interface
The artist and architect Allan Wexler on what connects us.
The 2023 MOLD Gift Guide
Project
Climate Controlled Dosa Picnic Basket
Interview
Brick by Brick: Building an Oven at Domaine de Boisbuchet
Project
Gifts From The Mandarin Tree
Project
Apple Powered Computer
Project
How the Wisdom of Coral Reefs are Inspiring Biodiversity
Essay
Re-Designing the Wine Bottle for an Eco-Future
Interview
Tiipoi’s Masala Hardware
Material traditions at the heart of South Asian cooking
The 2022 Mold Gift Guide
Holiday Gift Picks From Our Family to Yours
Interview
Seize the Glaze
Studio GDB's CNC-printed Ceramic Tiles
Interview
Dreaming in DALL-E
Artist Meech Boakye on the World-Building Capacities and Limitations of Dall-E 2
Interview
Catching the Light
Indigenous fishing practices from the K’iche’ Maya people
Interview
In the Cut with Out of Seam
Tajah Ellis on creating portals through natural dye
Project
Fill Up My Playte
What if your plate could became an interface?
Interview
Woven Crowns and Caribbean Beauties
Dach&Zephir explain the philosophy and fervour behind their design work.
Project
The Microgreen Shoe
Designing a future of material growth through a sneaker that grows edible plants
Project
Does FarmBeats Really March to a Different Tune?
Microsoft's newest ag tech venture proposes a connected future for smallholder farmers
Interview
Wearing Sugar Melon
A Conversation with Peiming Song
Project
Body Heat to Harvest
A necklace that ferments tempeh using your body's heat
Tools for Food: Shikizaru
This woven tool's material reflects its life cycle
Profile
The Hand-woven Farm Tools of Jeju Island
Visiting one of the last makers of mangtaeggi
Tools for Food: Pelmeni Maker
A mold for ear-shaped dumplings
Tools for Food: Spanish Oil Cruet
An everyday object reimagined by an architect
20 Gifts Picks from Our Family to Yours
MOLD's somewhat annual guide for holiday gifting
Tools for Food: Food Storage Basket
A woven container holds more than just food
Tools for Food: Ice Popsicle Maker
From one of the most underrated designers of the last century
Essay
NEW PRESSURES
Old Technology, New Labor, and the Instant Pot in India
Essay
Social Synergies: Ritual Awakening
Designing new rituals to celebrate an ever-evolving food ecosystem
Project
A DIY Open-Source Spirulina Farm
The Spirulina Society system empowers you to grow nutritious algae at home.
Comunità Frizzante is Bottling a Model for Hyperlocal Food Ecologies in the Italian Alps
Zymurgy_XXX Ceramic Crocks Brings Ecological Thinking into the Kitchen
Punk Brewery BrewDogs Shows the World How to Go Carbon Negative
Mycel App Empowers Novice Growers With Local Knowledge
Brooklyn’s Community Fridges Are Playground’s Solution for Healthier Food Practices
PlantPAPER Wants to Protect Your Most Precious Environments
Five Free Apps for All Levels of Foraging
Mapping the Saltworks of the Mediterranean with BOIR
Essay
Toilet Technology from the Land of TOTO
Comfort Food: Eating in Our Last Stage of Life
On Human-Machine Relations and Autonomous Food Production with Arvid & Marie
Child’s Play: How Design Can Teach Us to Eat Creatively
Documenting Taste and Sensory Preferences with FlavorWiki
Sensory Trip: How Tech Might Help Us Embrace Culinary and Ecological Diversity
Interpreting Taste as Image with Eye Candy
Orez on Designing Products for the Zero-Waste Home
Would You Eat a Robot? Augmented Food Studio’s Ingested Interactions
A Manifesto for Sensing in the Age of Sensors
Benditas Studio: Creating Furniture for Food
Moka Pot: Design Icon and Symbol of Italian Coffee Culture
19 Holiday Gifts for Growing, Exploring and Cultivating Your Love of Food
Pazdráti’s New Glass Jewelry Collection is a Commentary on Food Waste
Exploring a Lichen-Based Diet in “Unseen Edible”
Plentiful’s Reservation App Is Designing Dignity Into the Charitable Food System
Food Is the Connected Device for the Modern World
Eat Without Regret: Project Nourished on Dining in Virtual Reality
Sarajevo’s Improvisational Design for Dining Under Siege
Marije Vogelzang’s VOLUMES Add Heft to the Plate, Not the Body
Pass the Peas: Seedlip Distills Non-Alcoholic Spirits with a Taste of Nature
The Little Sous Subscription Box Schools Kids on the Joy of Cooking
How to Make a 3D-Printed Corn Sheller
Connecting Sound and Texture, Chewing Jockey Heightens the Pleasure of Multisensory Dining
Designing a System of Slow Tools for the Small Farm Revolution
Burton-Nitta’s symbiotic algae suits hint at the shape of our future dining tools
Beyond Food to Mouth, Cutlery Also Designs Table Manners
Michel/Fabian on Crossmodalism and the Pleasures of the Knife, Fork, Spoon and Hand
The Taste of Cutlery and the Multisensory World of Eating
A Nomadic Feast: Studio Tinkah embraces tableware without the table
Three Strategies for Designing Kitchens of the Future
Meet The Designers Who Want You To Play With Your Food
Designing the Next Generation of Yogurt Makers
Kid-Approved Utensils for Playing With Your Food
Studio Playfool Designs Mirrored Dinnerware for Future Proof Sustainable Meals
Perfectly Designed Decanters for the Discerning Cocktail Connoisseur
One Man’s Sh*t Is Another Man’s Treasure: How Sewage Systems Tell The Story Of Social Nutrition
Meet the designers working to create a more sustainable coffee cup
These Designers Prove Ocean Plastic Deserves a Place on the Table
How 3D Printers in Agriculture Could Revolutionize the Business of Farming
With Miguel Olivares’ Cake Table, You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
With a Connected Smart Scale, IKEA Aims to Cut Food Waste in Half by 2020
Camp Coffee Time: A Look at Outdoor Stoves and Kettles
This Decanter Will Keep Your Wine Fresh for Nearly Two Weeks
Energy Everywhere: BioLite’s CEO on Cooking, Lighting and Living Beyond the Grid
Campmojis Connect Our Digital Lives with the Thrill of the Great Outdoors
Tea Time with a Danish Design Legend, 60 Years in the Making
InfObjects Uses Food Data Algorithms to Design Tableware
You’ve Got Aire: Introducing the World’s First Digestive Tracker
A Set of Kitchen Tools Designed for the Blind
A Designer’s Picnic Utensils Unpack The Future of Eating Insects
An Intimate Set of Cutlery to Stimulate the Senses
The Case for Curiosity: Experimental Gastronomy’s Unconventional Cutlery
USA and Food Design Win Gold at Bocuse d’Or
A Pinch of Salt Gets It’s Own Kitchen Tool with Alessi’s Pizzico
In Beirut, An Afterlife for the Empty Wine Bottle
What to Give the Consummate Cook? Eating Tools, of Course
How Gro Intelligence is Engaging the Next Generation of Agricultural Leaders
The Cheese Grotto is Like a Humidor for Your Favorite Cheese
A TOILETPAPER Poop-Up with Seletti Drops in Milan
Own a Piece of Modernist Dining History at the Four Seasons Restaurant Auction
How to Make Hand-Forged Knives? The London Blacksmiths at Blenheim Forge Share the Choreography of Craft
The Cutlery Project: Designing Flatware For Imagination Over Function
Make Space, These Trends from the 2016 Home and Housewares Show Are About to Invade Your Kitchen
A Search Engine For Sustainably Raised Chicken
Love Hurts When It’s Stabbed By This 3D-Printed Knife
Take Your Veggies For A Spa Day In This Tabletop Food Sauna
TV Dinners Are Not So Lonely with forkCHESTRA
Critter Bitters Adds Cricket To Your Cocktail
How an 18th-Century Serial Killer Inspired Kille Enna’s Culinary Perfumery
Star Wars Kitchen Designs To Awaken The Force
Meat Marble Lights Up Dutch Design Week
Alice Rawsthorn’s Ode to a Milanese Cutlery Store
Technopicnic: An Astronaut-Inspired Picnic Backpack for the Urban Explorer
Lessons Learned from Hand Carving 365 Wooden Spoons: The Daily Spoon by Stian Korntved Ruud
MOLD x Visibility Debut the Life Measured Pitcher for New York Design Week
A Ceramic Collection for the Islay: Helen Levi for Bruichladdich Whisky
Channel Your Inner Mad Scientist and Make Crafty Cooking Oils
Could We Feast On Rotten Food In Human-Hyena Hybrid Future?
The Tomorrow Collective Explores Design Heritage for Future Living
Stockholm Design Week 2015: The Melt and Recreate Lamp Is an LCA-friendly Ice Light
Stockholm Design Week 2015: Sofia Almqvist’s Dining Table for Active Eating
Francesca Zampollo’s Memories’ Cloth Turns Table Talk Into a Diary
What Happens To Food When Your Tongue Can Hear?
The Ergonomic and Exceptionally Handsome Handmade Cookware That’s Making Our Kitchen Dreams Come True
Pop! The History of the Champagne Cork and Cage
TourDeFork’s 3D Printed Jewelry Makes Finger Food More Fabulous
This Kinetic Energy Thermos Can Literally Keep Your Coffee Hot Forever
How Fabrica’s New Tableware Breaks Language Barriers
Go Ahead, Drink Coffee from Pantone’s Marsala Mugs—if You Want a Truly Boring Cup
Tool Time: The Best Knife for Making a Crown Roast, Chef Angie Mar of the Beatrice Inn
The Next Trend in Juicing: Fruits and Veggies Will Now Charge Your Smartphone
25 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Food Design Lover on Your List
Energy-Conscious Tea Drinkers, Rejoice: Kettle Replacement “Miito” Heats Just Enough for the Perfect Cup
Tumblers for Two: BCXSY and Lobmeyr for Vienna Design Week 2014
Patagonia Designs Better Trail Food Inspired by a Tibetan Staple
A Very Specific Cutlery Set of Unnecessary Utensils
Memobottle, a Classy Flask for Your Water
S’up Spoon: Designing a Solution for People with Shaky Hands
Just Like an Architect: C.F. Møller’s Stackable Ensō Dishware is as Practical as It is Beautiful
Food Design Highlights from Wallpaper* Handmade 2014
How the “Golden Goose” Lays a Perfectly Pre-Mixed Egg–No Stove Top Required
Making Of The Aureola Tea Set by Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva
Opposites Attract in Lee Broom’s
On the Rock
Crystal and Marble Drinkware
Slowly Tipping the Scales for Perfectly Balanced Food
Kickstart the Manual Coffee Maker For People Who Aren’t Afraid to Use Their Hands
Design Spotting: Seriously Chic Mortar & Pestles
Design Spotting: 3 Pour Over Coffee Makers Worth Getting Up For
Digital Food App Brings the Smells of Mugaritz to Your Phone
Tom Dixon Debuts Barware Collections at Maison & Objet
Hamhocks and Cold Cuts, Now Underfoot: Rugs by Chen Chen and Kai Williams for Tai Ping
Holiday Gift Guide: Our Top 30 Picks for the Food + Design Lover on Your List
Keep it Sweet: Matthias Borowski’s Candy-Coated Materials Project, The Importance of the Obvious
Chef Jet: 3D Printed Confections from The Sugar Lab and 3D Systems
Kosuke Araki Transforms Food Waste to Food Ware
Le Laboratoire Wants You to Inhale Your Food
Design of Cutlery Changes the Way We Taste Food
A Nautilus Bowl for the Disabled
Tjep’s Il Treno, a Dining Booth for the Modern Traveler
