Food Art & Design

Magnum photographer, Martin Parr created a gorgeous documentary about Teddy Gray’s sweet factory established in 1826 in Dudley in the West Midlands. Teddy Gray’s has been a family owned and run business for five generations keeping the traditional, hand-made methods of sweet making alive...

Food blogger Julie Lees has attracted many admirers for her impressive orderliness - arranging all sorts of seasonal produce; fruits, vegetables and herbs into enchanting food collages.

Bookery Cook artist and scalpel wonderwoman Sarah Dennis recently received a very special commission - to create a paper rendition of a 'gargouillou', a stunningly decorative and meticulously arranged dish conceived originally by French chef Michel Bras in spring of 1978, to "try and translate the fields".

Copenhagen-based art duo PutPut are behind these little beauties that confuse universal love for icecreams with the universal aversion to cleaning. 

Ted Sabarese is an NYC based photographer who relishes working with non-professional models and actors who push the common definitely of 'beauty'. 

Norweigen photographer Christopher Jonassen reveals the darker side of the frying pan with his series, "Devour", where the wear and tear on the bottoms of these kitchen staples are captured to resemble the frozen surfaces, red dust and crater-dotted terrain of our intergalactic surroundings.

Tie the Knot by Kyle Drier is a photographic compendium of some of the best flavour combos out there.

Graphic designers, Ana Dominguez and Omar Sosa, created these still-life compositions for Apartamento magazine issue 08. Pretty sure I still need to master my Soudough before I try battling Henry Moore in bread jenga... what beauties ! 

A pair of french graphic designers Thomas and Quentin created the Fat & Furious Burger when they started to take pictures of their lunchtime burgers after giving them makeovers influenced by news headlines, pop culture and whatever else they can sandwich in between ... 

"One can chose not to eat, one cannot accept to eat poorly" - Salvador Dali

In 1973 Les Diners de Gala (Gala's Diner) was published as a collaboration between Dali and a "secret" chef in collaboration with some of the top French restaurants of the time.

If Honey I Shrunk the Kids was set in the pantry not the garden, this would be the result.. a cupcake icing snow fight, a blackberry murder scene, scuba diving in a tea cup, cycling over bananas, mowing broccoli tops, waltzing in a clam shell. 

American graphic designer and photographer Dinah Fried has conceived and constructed meals from some favourite novels - from afternoon tea in Alice in Wonderland to clam chowder in Moby Dick, cheese & pickle sandwich and malted milk from Catcher in the Rye, to a bowl of gruel in Oliver Twist.

It's really refreshing to see a food magazine that doesn't contain celebrity chefs, advertisements about refrigerators and calculated, repetitive images of food.

Being a lover of all things food and fashion, the blog Miss Moss, really struck at my hearts strings in a total 'I wish I had thought of that' moment. 

This is a beautiful photoshoot that appeared in German magazine Brigitte, and was found on a lovely blog, Dietlind Wolf.

Lunchbox is a collection of small acrylic paintings created by San Francisco/New York based artist, Dan Kenneally. These colourful minimalist treasures feature colourful strips representing the ingredients on classic sandwiches.. Head over to Dan's Lunchbox website to check out more of the collection - he even takes commissions for your favourite sammiches. Yeah! 

Don't judge a book by its cover? Wonder if you'd judge a person by their fridge....

Prolific swiss artist Urs Fischer is best known for his outrageous installations that use foodstuffs both as a subject and a medium. He most famously built a life-size alpine chalet made entirely from loaves of bread. These paintings are from the series Problem Paintings where portaits from Old Hollywod have been eclipsed by oversized silk screen images of food… he so cool. 

Production duo BankShot and DJ Nick Castle team up with label LRG  for this tasty collab - a stop motion featuring legendary food rhymes from the likes of Method Man, Raekwon, Q-Tip and Biggy! Want more!!!

There's no better way to say I LOVE YOU than through food right? The team at boutique letter press and design studio, Gilahpress couldn't agree more and have just released a collection of food inspired 'Sow Sweet' greeting cards. 

Some pineapples, cupcakes and other foodstuff have come together for a photoshoot embellished in 90s scrunchies! The vast minimalist scenes contrast their extravagant subjects in this beautiful and strange collaboration by photographer Catherine Losing and Kate Fotis - jazzy stuff.

Are you full? 

Danish artist Pe Johansen work 
"MÆT (eng. 'Full')consists of reproductions of meat, vegetables, pasta and other foods which are claustrophobically placed in various synthetic plastic containers. The works comment on the zeitgeist’ artificial overconsumption of products and points to contemporary consumer mentality."

Words by Charlotte Kim Boed

Nothing says summer tropical more than pineapples and palm trees. Australian designer, DIAZ, has hit the nail on the head (or the umbrella in the cocktail) with her S/S 2012 collection Edo Tropica.

Weekends were designed for food magazines. Reading, salivating, dog-earring pages, list writing and future dinner parties are all triggered with a pot of tea, a good read and a few hours to spare.

Photographer William Legoullon takes a (very) close look at our favourite beverages.

Put your money where your mouth is.. no wait.. your mouth where your money is.. with this series by Henry Hargreaves, comprising the gadgets du jour, deep fried in a light golden batter.

In a sickening twist of irony, key problems facing the modern world include at once food shortage, over eating, and food wastage. Over 1 billion people don't get enough food to live a healthy, sustainable life, over 1/3 of American adults are obese, and over 1/3 of the total food produced in the world is wasted (consumers in rich countries waste as much food as sub-Saharan Africa produces). It is this shocking statistic on food wastage that is the subject of Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler's series, 'One Third'.

If you like food and you like pop culture and have a few spare hours up your sleeve to get lost in a blog bubble, DEFINITELY check out Pop Culture Cooking.

The Piet Mondrian

The Bookery Cook loves a good food and art mash up. This little gem, with the works of artistic greats represented by food stuffs on a bread slice canvas, is another delicious example.

Nuthin but a ‘G’ thang by Dr Dre feat. Snoop: Pancakes, chocolate mousse & cream

In another inter-disciplinary inter-sensorial combination, Swedish photographer Philip Karlberg and set designer/ chef Mattias Nyhlin have paired songs and desserts in their project 33RPM.