Cabin On Vestmann Island, Iceland.

Cabin on Vestmann Island, Iceland.

Contributed by Noémie Varin-Lachapelle.

PSA: macaron ice cream sandwiches are a thing.

Taste the Font by primprim for Vilnius Design Week 2013

By Aki Inomata, quite literally taking the hermit crabs ability for carrying their home on their back, the Japanese artist crafts architecturally inspired shells from plastic for the crabs, with miniature cities on them. I think another fantastic aspect is the transparency, how you can see the anatomy of the crab even when they withdraw is just fascinating.

When visiting restaurants or cafés we look through menus, chat with a waiter, sometimes with a barman or a manager. If we are constant customers of some restaurant, we certainly communicate with staff as with our good friends. We taste some dishes, discuss them with our friends. It happens that we express our enjoyment or puzzlement about taste of a dish to a manager or an owner. Or we can airily ask waiter to pass our wishes as to the food quality. But unfortunately we rarely think about the creators of these dishes, about people who have cooked them for us with love. About the chefs of our favourite outlets. They are people with their own lifestyle, their habits and interests, with their unique and certainly interesting life. With the help of my project ‘Food &Chef’, I’d like to acquaint you with them, the real artists, with those who create these beautiful dishes for us. And when you are having meal in a restaurant the next time, and understand that you are enjoying the dish, leave a note for a cook. Say ‘thank you’. It will take you only half a minute, but it will make the chef happy for the whole day.

Each of these pictures has a story behind. Amazing.