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Scent Memory of a City’s Past Nostalgia for a Bengaluru that was, captured in a box of 12 scents.
Interview
Resurrectura On Sasha Fishman's Material alchemy and corporeal landscapes
Interview
Beyond Preservation with Gala Porras-Kim Reimagining the museum as a site for interspecies co-creation
Project
Playing the Field A Boardgame from Bakudapan Food Study Group Illuminates the Factors of Food Crisis
Book Review
LINSEED Journal: The Olive
Interview
On Constructing a Food Archive Maintaining Dalit Memory and Recipes with Rajyashri Goody
A woman wearing a red jumpsuit stands in front of various rose bushes speaking into a microphone. Behind her is a screen with a green background that says How to Make a Bomb
Profile
Plants, place and power: A conversation with Gabriella Hirst Inside the history of the 'Atom Bomb' rose
Book Review
(Home Works): A Cooking Book Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work
Interview
Trailing the Giant African Land Snail En-Man Chang Traces an Invasive Species' Evolution From Pest to Culinary Staple
Book Review
Interwoven: Exercises in Rootsystem Domestication
Project
What if You Spit Out What You Ate? Joanna Wierzbicka's Digestive Creative Process
The book
Book Review
On Foraging: Food Knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries in the UAE’s Landscape
Essay
Bread & Salt We demand action, resistance, and change. The time is now.
Interview
On Dining as Interface The artist and architect Allan Wexler on what connects us.
Project
Garden of Eden Jo Kim on gardens as a metaphor for cultivating knowledge
Essay
Rallying Resistance: Voices to Visuals From the River to the Sea
Project
Humanity’s Silent Ally Soil Futures is piloting ways of living and learning from the soil
Two speakers embedded in the ground.
Project
Del Suelo al Cielo (From Soil to Sky) All Pib Slow Play: A Sedimentation of History and Sound, Volume II
Interview
Chutney: When a Condiment Becomes a Vessel for Cultural Expression
Five pouches in off-white, pinks, and merlots sit in a row. Out of focus in front of the pouches of wine are empty wine glasses.
Essay
Re-Designing the Wine Bottle for an Eco-Future
On a wood floor background plants are placed on rectangular strips of paper with descriptions written in Chinese of each plant. A magnet holds each leaf down.
Interview
In the Weeds Art collective 雜草稍慢Weed Day on shaping spaces for ecological education
Project
Friends Who Ferment An ever-present microbial dance, active since the beginnings of time.
A silver tray mold for ten madeleine cookies is hung up on the wall slightly above the ground. Below on the ground the floor is covered in a layer of flour.
Project
A Dessert Shop Takeover Traces Taiwan’s History With Flour
Project
The Baker’s Bedroom An ongoing exploration into queering domestic and consumptive norms.
Four bodies draped in a Filipinx sarong pattern designed by Chris Fussner and Zeus Bascon of Tropical Futures Institute. Three of the people are holding large monstera leaves.
Interview
Tropical Futures
s, miniature trellises made of yarn and wire, and small pools of plastic. A cloth hot air balloon floats above the miniature landscape
Project
Grounds for Play Mimi Park Brings a New Ecosystem to Life
Project
Edible if you like There is endless potential, beauty, and taste in remains.
Project
Eye-to-Eye With Celia Vasquez Yui’s Animal Spirits Interspecies interfacing at a new ceramic sculpture exhibit
We’re Hiring an Editorial Intern
Everything But Spam With The Leaked Recipe Cookbook Demetria Glace excavates recipes from historic email leaks
Project
Pollinator Pathmaker Generates New Possibilities for More-Than-Human Art and Design
Book Review
A Food-Fueled Love-Letter to the Filipinx Diaspora Angela Dimayuga's first cookbook reflects the joy and politics of being first gen in America.
Profile
On the Intimacy of Bread and Performance For Laura Wilson, bread is the medium for an interspecies message
Project
A Musical Millstone Arrives in New York Futurefarmers unveil their first large-scale public artwork in the United States
Project
Superflux Sets the Table for a More-than-human Future at La Biennale di Venezia
Project
Linda Goode Bryant Inverts the Gallery With an Indoor Farm The artist's collaboration with Elizabeth Diller explores food, space and community.
Project
Art Feeds Community With Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio’s Sculptural Beehive Oven How a functional work of public art centers the activist culinary history of immigrant diasporas
Profile
A Visual Encyclopedia of Indian Food Considering the ABC's of Indian Cuisine with Priya Mani
Project
The Museum of Endangered Foods
Project
Tea (For the End of) Time Branding and marketing in apocalypse
Essay
Communicating Over Distance, Grounded in Place As restaurants turn to e-commerce and online experience, can design afford a sense of belonging and community across a digital divide?
Essay
Graphic Design and Local Food Ecologies A new column exploring how community is in continual need of creative attention
Project
A Culinary Exploration in Afro-Asian Solidarity The Color Curtain II artist book approaches solidarity through the historical lens of the Bandung Conference.
Interview
Plant Fever An exploration of how design can cater to plants’ needs, from the perspective of plants.
We’re Hiring an Assistant Editor
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin Ferments History, Politics and Geography in Her Newest Artwork, M for Membrane
Design Firm Decade’s “Family Meal” Provides Relief to Restaurant Workers
Black Almanac Speculates on Planetary Food Futures
What Color is Mars? An Introduction to Salmon: A Red Herring from Cooking Sections
Fujio Sayang Celebrates the Beauty of Indonesian Ingredients
Why Aren’t We Just Eating Locusts?
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MOLD Book Club: A Reading List for Self-Isolation
Mushroom & Friends Zine is a Loveletter to the Weird and Wonderful World of Fungi
Food Design Friday: Frog Tenders for New Yorkers, Quantifying Food Addiction and the Politics of Lab Grown Meat
Food Design Friday: Chopsticks from Above, a Cup Noodle Fork, and Food as Medicine
Food Design Friday: Algal Explorations, Beer Waste Lamps and Notes from the Regenerative Food System Forum
Esther Choi's Le Corbuffet is a riotous homage to the art and design of cooking.
Le Corbuffet is a Riotous Homage to the Art and Design of Cooking
Food Design Friday: Red Meat Controversy, Food Waste Pigments and Future Food Scarcity
Food Design Friday: The Secrets of Gin, Ceramic Dumplings and Coffee-Based Shoes
Food Design Friday: A New Age Juicer, Gastronomy Meets Urban Ag and Dim Sum Sculptures
Food Design Friday: Meatless Mooncakes, Illusory Food and Biology Meets Design
Food Design Friday: Bioplastic Fantastic, Ancient Grains Grow in California, and Designing Expiration Dates
Food Design Friday: Cooking with Cannabis and a Compostable Shirt
Food Design Friday: Better Butter, Facebook Cafes, and Designing with Tea Waste
Food Design Friday: Atomik Vodka, Flying Fish and Baking Bread with Ancient Yeast
Food Design Friday: Climate Change Looms, a Personal Fungi Factory, and Artificial Tongues
Food Design Friday: A Whole Lot of Dairy, and Minimalist Design for the Kitchen
Speculation and 3D Printing Plants: Mau Morgó Proposes a Plan for Cultivating Beauty
Food Design Friday: Flora-Based Ice Cream, Synthetic Flowers, and Can You Fry an Egg Outside?
Food Design Friday: Hydroponic Dandelions, Food Art at Storm King, and Instagram’s International Snack Store
Food Design Friday: Around the World in 125 Melons, and Some Things that Seem Fishy
Food Design Friday: Desert Truffles, the Perfect Protein Powder, and Breakfast Cereal Beer
An Homage to Vintage Decor from Devon Made Glass
Food Design Friday: The Prospects for Insect Protein, Inside Noma, and Designing Dim Sum Tableware
Food Design Friday: Cyborg Plants, Accessible Cookware, and Growing Algae at Home
Food Design Friday: Sonic Succulents, Coffee-Stained Lamps, and Making Textiles from Bread
Food Design Friday: Cooking with Flowers, Recycling Eggs, and the Power of Camel Milk
Curating by Color Palette: A Monochromatic Family Portrait Series
Food Design Friday: A Perfect Plant, Upcycling at Dubai Design Week, and Modified Tomatoes
Food Design Friday: Eating Invasive Species, Synthetic Biology 101, and a Floating Farm
Food Design Friday: Cooking for Climate Change, Redesigning a Tea Pot and Biomimicry in Architecture
Food Design Friday: Plastic Food Photography, Worm Salt, and A New Era of Design
Food Design Friday: Sicilian Mangoes, Farming in a Grocery Store, and the Bugs That Help Make Candy
Food Design Friday: Playing Music for Your Cheese, Water VR at Milan Design Week, and an Original Coca-Cola Bottle
Food Design Friday: 3D Printed Sushi, MAD’s Cooking School of the Future, and Brewing Tea with Data
Food Design Friday: A Plant-Based Exhibition, Farming Your Front Lawn, and Producing THC from… Yeast?
Food Design Friday: Lamp Farming, Plague Water Cocktails, and 3D Printed Cakes
In “Eating the Other,” Fashion and Food for Confronting the Objectification of Chinese Culture
Food Design Friday: Bacteria Batteries, Farming in the Apocalypse, and Fast Food AI
Food Design Friday: Root Sculptures, Recycled Food Waste for Furniture, and a Ghanaian Cocoa Museum
Confections and Affections: Designing Valentine’s Day Sweets
Food Design Friday: Fridge Tinder, Out-designing Waste, and Grocery Shopping in the Future
Food Design Friday: Happy Hour on Wheels, the Secret Language of Plants, and Moon Food
Food Design Friday: Poultry Portraits, A Banana Collector and Veggie DNA
Food Design Friday: Pickle Ornaments, The History of Goldfish, and Silverware Gone Wild
Food Design Friday: IKEA x Tom Dixon’s Urban Farm, Food as Medicine, and High Elevation Coffee
Food Design Friday: Cacao Coffee, Mussel-Shaped Greenhouses, and AR in Farming
Food Design Friday: Alternative Meat Factories, K-Cup Cocktails, and Copyrighting Cheese
Food Design Friday: Potato Plastic, Amazonian Ingredients + ASMR Food Videos
Food Design Friday: Self-Powered Greenhouses, Reusable Beer Bottles, and Urban Homes for Bees
Food Design Friday: Tupperware of the Future, The Disgusting Food Museum, and Growing Meat from Chicken Feathers
Food Design Friday: Farming in Space, Lamps Designed to Grow Plants, and Research on Manta Rays
Food Design Friday: Tales from the Crypt, Lettuce Robots, 3D Food Waste Printing
In This Lucky Peach and Rene Redzepi-Approved Book, A Solution To the Failings of Food Conferences
Food Design Friday: Pineapple Fiber Fabrics, A Cold Brew Coffee Maker, and Rebuilding Houses with Mushrooms
Food Design Friday: Potato Peel Packaging, a House Made of Chocolate, and Nutrigenomics
Food Design Friday: Japanese Dessert Design, The World’s Oldest Cheese and Saying Goodbye to a Coffee Pioneer
Food Design Friday: Redesigning Ramen, A Popsicle That Won’t Melt, and Floating Dairy Farms
Food Design Friday: Ancient Cooking Tools Made Modern, Coffee Drones and Cage-Free Animal Crackers
Food Design Friday: Fats Made from Wood, a New McDonald’s Design, and Chocolatier Classes
Food Design Friday: Self-Stirring Pots, Carrot-Infused Concrete, and A Rice Krispies Treat for Everyone
Food Design Friday: Making Pickles on Mars, A French Fry That’s Finally Crispy Enough, and Chopstick Origami
Food Design Friday: Growing Cups from Gourds, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Restaurant Playlist, and a Vegetarian Museum in Chicago
Food Design Friday: The World’s Oldest Bread, Cooking Kits for the Elderly, And Real Talk About Starbucks’ New Lids
Food Design Friday: Color-Changing Cans, Designing with Virtual Reality, and What You Didn’t Know about MSG
Food Design Friday: Building Houses Out of Jell-O, Saving Coffee Crops, and Eating Popcorn with Chopsticks
Food Design Friday: Licking Stamps, How to Make Your Avocados Last, and Celebrating World Refugee Day
Food Design Friday: Branding Water, Faux Foods, Food Waste Fashions and Eating Pizza in Bed
Food Design Friday: An Impossible Burger Controversy, Possible Banana Extinction, and A Domino Game That Decides Dinner
Food Design Friday: Cats in Food, Plant-Based Steaks + Trolling the President with Ice Cream
Food Design Friday: Wine Collecting in Namibia, CRISPR in your Corn, and Culinary Medicine
Chitosan-based Packaging Help Could Solve Issues with Plastic Waste
On Designing Tableware and Furniture for New Dining Rituals, and editor’s note for MOLD Magazine Issue 02
How a New Wave of Alt-Protein Producers Package Seitan, Tempeh and Tofu for Mass Appeal
Dolce Gabbana Pastificio Martino Pasta Package
Dolce & Gabbana Dresses Up Pasta Packaging in Retro Italian Glam
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Food Packaging Innovation: Clay-based films, Edible Seaweed Wrappers and Color Theory
Food Design Friday: Tasting Marina Abramovic, Noma on the Chopping Block and Dumpling Emojis
Coop Insect Burger Essento Prepared
Essento Introduces Insect Burgers to Coop Supermarkets in Switzerland
It’s the Year 2036. A Speculative Tour of Products from the Microbiome Era
Brami lupini beans protein snack package
Protein Powered: How Beans Can Sate Your Afternoon Snack Attack
High Off Design: Packaging Marijuana Edibles for a New Generation
Food Design Friday: Turning Food Pics into Recipes, Why Meal Kit Businesses Fail, and What to Watch This Weekend
Luisa Weiss of TheWednesdayChef.com, on how food blogging has changed since she started in 2005.
Why One of the Internet’s First Food Bloggers is Calling for a Slow Blog Movement
Table setting for Jen Monroe's
Food as Fantasy in Artist Jen Monroe’s Monochromatic Meal Series
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West studio also included a fully functional farm.
Food Design Friday: Eating with Frank Lloyd Wright, Shady History of Rose and Ford’s Space-Age Meat Alternative
Food Design Friday: Covfefe! Food + Climate Change, Nutella and Blue Apron’s IPO
Food Design Friday: An IKEA Food Incubator, Beans Over Beef and Bread Bag Clips
Patagonia Provisions Packages Sustainability in a Snack
LAZY MOM Explores Politics and Patriarchy Through the Processed American Diet
Packaging Insects for a New Generation of Protein Snacks
The Fallen Fruit Art Collective’s Next Big Squeeze Debuts on Earth Day
Clove Oil is the Key to Keeping Your Food Fresher for Longer in Next Gen Food Packaging
We’re Launching the First Magazine about the Future of Food
When Cheese Masquerades as Yogurt
When Design Critic Alice Rawsthorn Celebrates Design and Food
A New Squeeze for Food in Tubes: Sweden’s Iconic Fish Paste Gets a Rebrand
Food Design Friday: In Defense of Vegetable Butchers, Quinoa Genome Project and a Cheatsheet for Wine Glasses
The Quest to Build a Healthier, Sustainable, and Kid-Friendly Packaged Lunch
Food Design Friday: Life on Mars, Sushi Kit Kats and Robot Baristas
Caesarstone’s Material Menu is an Elemental Feast for the Senses
How Birch Water Companies are Using Design to Battle for Market Share
Food Design Friday: Blue Wine, Cooking with Plankton and a Guide to Bottled Water
Robusta Gets a Boost from Three New Coffee Companies
Redesigned Packaging Squeezes Sour Cream Back Onto the Plate
Deck Your Kitchen Library with These Palatable Reads
Gourmet Advent Calendars Put Packaging First
Meet the Wine Companies Reimagining Traditional Bottle Labels
How Google Trends Reveal the Rhythm of Food
Why This Ukrainian Snack Company is Throwing Peanuts at Russia
Viva la Mamma Box Rebrands Traditional Italian Pastas for the Microwave Generation
Food Design Friday: Massimo Bottura Fights Food Waste, Farmers on the Biz of Meal Kits and Mushrooms that Taste Like Bacon
The Matzo Project Reimagines Jewish Crackers for a New Generation
Food Design Friday: A Trump Food Policy, an Algorithm for Deliciousness and a Chef’s Knife from NASA
Rebranding Swedish Flour For Home Bakers with Global Tastes
Food Design Friday: #MakeAmericaCakeAgain, Doubts about GMOs and Customized Meal Delivery Based on Genetics
Simmer is an Exhibition on the Politics of Food Right Before the Boiling Point
Happy Hour and a Burger Emoji Now in MoMA’s Permanent Collection
Sugar, Porcelain and Power: Deconstructing Jessica Stoller’s Ceramic Sculptures
A Conceptual Cookbook from Hong Kong’s Leading Contemporary Art Center
Tasty Office Reimagines Drab Cubicle Culture Through Our Favorite Snacks
Trends on Trends: A Culinary Forecast on the Future of Convenience Food
Aztec Food and an Apple of Gold: Caitlin Craggs’ Animated Short History of the Tomato
Icons of Food History, Now in Book Form
Real Food and Real Lies: Martin Parr Talks Food Photography at the Barbican
A Design Explosion from Artist and Creative Director Brent Rollins
Skateboarding and Pizza in the Wild with Photographer Jonpaul Douglass
A Zest of the Absurd: Set Design and Art Direction from Indonesian Duo The Taable
Getting in the Mood with Artist and Illustrator Ariel Roman
Candy Colored Digital Collages from Art Director Catherine J. Kim
3D Illustrator Daniel Aristizábal Surreal, Candy-Colored Pop Art
Start Your Day with Tyler Spangler’s Rainbow of Psychedelic Digital Collages
Sarah Illenberger Transforms the Everyday with Craft and Complexity
Still Life Takes On New Life with Dina Belenko’s Food Photography
A Hot Dog in a Fur Coat? Illustrator Allister Lee’s Delicious Fashion Commentary
Hong Kong Illustrator Vincy Cheung Draws Big Bites in a Global City
Lizzie Darden Designs Food Puns for the Internet
Get Hypnotized by Illustrator Karan Singh’s Surreal Pattern Play
LAZY MOM Depicts the Rise and Fall of Civilization Through SNACKS
A Seductive Paradise of Coconut Kisses from Lilian Martinez of BFGF
SNACKS Hot Off the Press: MOLD Design Week Newspaper #01
Keep Your Favorite Snacks Close To Your Heart with Hungry Eyes NY Lapel Pins
And Then God Created the Fat & Furious Burger
Snacking is an Art Form with CHIAOZZA’s Paper Pulp Sculptures
Martinis In Tins Are Everyone’s New Favorite Canned Beverage
Time to Monkey Around: 5 Food Designs for a Lucky Lunar New Year
Food Design Friday: Smart Tea, Pizza Math and Mario Batali’s Prison Wine
Hello: I’m a Kombo Introduces the Social Act of Dining
The Most Fashionable and Fabulous Food Designs for Friday
Eating Our Emotions: Jan Kornstaedt on the Art of Food Photography
Suzanne Anker, art, food, urban gardening, the value of food, exhibit, installation
Who Cooked the Last Supper? Five Surprising Works of Art from The Value of Food Exhibition
Leftover Cookies Become Intergalactic Asteroids In Dina Belenko’s Cosmic Food Photography
Food Design Friday: Welcoming the New Year with the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread and a Laser-Cut Tortilla for Your Next Fiesta
The Buzz About Bee’s Wrap, A Beeswax-based Plastic Wrap Alternative
Kaleidoscopic Food Scans for Every Season by Hargreaves and Levin
Food Design Friday: A Veggie Burger that Bleeds, Techno Toast and Choco-Inspiration
Nendo Peels Away Packaging for the World’s Happiest Banana
Gyotaku: The Japanese Art of Fish Prints
Food Design Friday: Ugly Veggies, Sea Farms and the Quest for the Perfect Tortilla
Easy Cheese and Eggos: LAZY MOM Makes Your Favorite Foods Fun Again
Fat & Furious Burger is “Everything Good Between Two Buns”
Food Design Friday: 3D Food Printing Conference, Plant Packaging and Breakfast with Gaetano Pesce
Food Design Friday: Peep This, Farm-to-Table Seder and Gluten-Free Art
Gemma Warriner’s “Twenty-Fifty” Confronts The Global Food Crisis
Food Design Friday: Feminist Beer, 100 Years of Packaging and a Farewell to Food
Food Illustrated: Jessika Tarr on EATERS Magazine, Berlin Bars and the “Big Salami”
Food Design Friday: A Sushi Bar as Art, Industrial Insect Farms and the Cosmos in Your Kitchen
Step Inside the Shipping Container-Turned-Kitchen at Nashville’s 404 Hotel
Speedy Graphic Design for Barcelona’s New Ham on Wheels
A Sweet Label for Sour Beer
Art of the Menu‘s Armin Vit on Common Restaurant Design Mistakes + What the Tastiest Tables Do Right
How Do Fonts Affect Our Food? The Type Taster Investigates
Food Design Friday: Burger Branding, Finger Licking and Tea Time
The Week in Soy Sauce Packaging: Saying Goodbye to Designer Kenji Ekuan
Not Your Grandmother’s Baklava
Cactus, E-Coli and Chicken Pox Popsicles: Experiments in User-Unfriendly Food Design
Food Design Friday: A PhD in Spoons, Oreos in Cans and Designing NYC’s Water Fountains
Food Design Friday: Packaging Trends for 2015, Crochet Popsicle Hats and How McDonald’s Makes French Fries
Smartbites: Candy Created by a Designer
Food Design Friday: Schematics to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, Designer Chicken Coops and a Visit to the Pope’s Farm
Food Design Friday: Higher Learning, Insect Farming and Bio-Packaging
Food Design Friday: Martha Stewart x MakerBot, Farming in Deep Space
The Noun Project’s Icons for Sustainable Food and Farming
Food Design Friday: Happy Hour Just Got Better
Go Mushrooming with This Way-Too-Cute Polish Board Game
Food Design Friday: 3 Competitions to Sink Your Teeth Into
Smart and Beautiful To-Go Food Packaging Design
Rain or Shine Ice Cream Identity Design by Glasfurd & Walker
Food Design Friday: Edible Mah Jongg, a Restaurant Serving Only Tin Can Dinners, and More
3 Häagen-Dazs Holiday Ice Cream Cake Designs
Food Design Friday: 5 Food-Inspired Fashion Moments
Margrethe Odgaard’s Palate-Palette Tastes Like an Explosion of Color
Food Design Friday: Rene Redzepi’s MAD Symposium, the Kate Moss Boob Coupe, Minimal Leather and Porcelain Tableware, and More
“Sin Tapa,” A Playful Pairing of Food and Photography
Looks Good Enough to Eat: Gucci Pickles, Chanel Sausage, Tiffany & Co. Yogurt, and More Designer Food Packaging
Does This Ice Cream Look Delicious or Disgusting? For the Answer, We Go Back to Our Early Ancestors
In the Spotlight: Up-and-Coming Designer + Art Director Leta Sobierajski
On the FDA Nutrition Facts Food Label Redesign
Required Reading: “Matters of Taste,” Julie Lasky on Food Design
Tasty Textiles: Tomomi Tokuyasu’s Cuts of Beef Meat Patterns
DWR Champagne Chair Contest 2014 Winners
Profile—Beyond Food Porn: Julie’s Kitchen’s Food Collages
Why Food Tastes Better When It Explodes
The Grass-Whopper, Really Green Fast Food from Artist Pedro Reyes
Nendo Designs a Taste of Color with chocolate-paint for Seibu
Fabrico Próprio: A Portuguese Bakery Tour of Lisbon
Making ‘Real’ Vitamins and Placebos—from Paper
Astarism food design gestalten book
12 Inspiring Food Projects from Gestalten’s A Delicious Life
Crazy Fad Diets Get Their Own Photo Shoot in Stephanie Gonot’s Latest Series
Eyes as Big As Plates, Finnish Seniors Shrouded in Vegetation and Folklore
Tutti Frutti: Bompas & Parr Explode the Fruit Salad
The Deli Garage Wants to Fix Your Food
Burdens of Excess: Andrea Hasler’s Raw Designer Handbags