FOOD DESIGNER KATJA GRUIJTERS

Food design Since the end of the 1990s, a growing group of designers have specialized in designing food and drink. Food design has now become a recognized design discipline. Each designer has their own way of looking at eating, food cultures, technology, people and society, taste sensations and the senses. Studio Katja Gruijters’ groundbreaking approach is distinctive within the discipline because it delivers design and much more. I work with great pleasure as creative organiser for Katja and am a true fan of her platform www.mooivannature.com. She works in different ways for the food-industry but also created food installations in het Stedelijk Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Nemo and MAD in New York.

In cooperation with the Centre Georges Pompidou and Vitra Design Museum, a series of workshops are offered in the summer months under the direction of internationally recognized artists, designers and architects. Katja Gruijters is invited to do a “zero waste’ workshop from 15. July - 21. July 2012,
It is still possible to join.

Beautiful by Nature (Mooi van Nature) is an ideal. An ideal that reflects the essence of food: nature itself. For Beautiful by Nature, nature is a source of inspiration. But it is also a model for solutions – after all, there is no food waste in nature. Everything is part of a full circle. Beautiful by Nature has designed the Zero Waste Cycle. Working with this aim in mind means less waste while still enjoying tasty and beautiful food. 

FOOD BOOK FAIR NEW YORK

When i met Elizabeth Thacker Jones for the first time in New York, I could sense she was going to do something really connective on food in the Big Apple, and Yes she did it!  With a life long interest in food and it’s ability to inspire, Elizabeth Thacker Jones presents the FOOD BOOK FAIR, the first ever event bringing together food publications from around the world alongside a dynamic set of events celebrating food writing, reading, and activism, there will be a multitude of food-related panel discussions, and books abound! 

Food artist Jennifer Rubell will be attending, I think here installation work is inspiring. Wish I was around the corner. Elizabeth congratulations!

Jennifer Rubell

"ALL YOU EAT IS ART" FOR GISPEN / THE BARN, CHABOT MUSEUM

"ALL YOU EAT IS ART" FOR GISPEN / THE BARN, CHABOT MUSEUM

A pop-up workplace of Gispen is presented in the garden of the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam, a design of the Latvian designer Mara Skujeniece. At the time of the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam Gispen and Chabot Museum joined forces to represent a bridge to the past from a modern perspective.

Ina Boonekamp Arends of "All you eat is art” devised a Latvian welcome for the Gispen guests at the Chabot Museum. A pure natural cocktail of birch-juice / vodka / thyme and a knot cookie inspired by the work of Mara. The welcome was presented as an installation where a carousel with bobbins and threads connected the drinks and cookies, you had to cut loose before tasting. After it was time for black pudding with blueberry jam, chutney with clouds of bread, nibbles on knitted crafts, pickles on garden shovels and other Latvian-inspired tastings put together in a landscape.

FOOD WASTE

The series One third (we world citizens waste one third of food) describes the connection between individual wastage of food and globalized food production. Rotting food, arranged into elaborate still lifes, portrays and abstract pictures look at the roots of this issue. New esthetics that makes you blush and think......... www.kpic.at 

CARVING

Carving by Food photographer Ilian

FLORATORIUM

Read more at Floratorium 

DECORATE

all you eat is art

Caroline Gomez