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31.5.12
30.5.12
Cool stuff: Bread spoons by Niels Datema
I love bread.
I don't know what it is, I guess it makes me very Dutch, but I Love Bread.
And I especially Love home baked bread.
Every time I bake my own bread I decide that, since it is Soooo Easy, I should bake a fresh loaf at least once a week.
Needless to say: I never really seem to get to it as often as I'd like... (once every three months is more like it)
For convenience I usually buy the halfway-there-already-bread-mix in the supermarket (poor, I know), but that might change if I could get my hands on the next set of spoons by Niels Datema:
Here's how he describes the Breadspoons on his website:
"The smell of a home baked loaf, the taste of a crunchy crust, the texture of a slice of whole grain bread, all of these experiences can come when you bake your bread with these five spoons.
I don't know what it is, I guess it makes me very Dutch, but I Love Bread.
And I especially Love home baked bread.
Every time I bake my own bread I decide that, since it is Soooo Easy, I should bake a fresh loaf at least once a week.
Needless to say: I never really seem to get to it as often as I'd like... (once every three months is more like it)
For convenience I usually buy the halfway-there-already-bread-mix in the supermarket (poor, I know), but that might change if I could get my hands on the next set of spoons by Niels Datema:
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| Photographs courtesy of http://www.nielsdatema.nl/ |
"The smell of a home baked loaf, the taste of a crunchy crust, the texture of a slice of whole grain bread, all of these experiences can come when you bake your bread with these five spoons.
To bake a nice loaf of bread you only need; flour, water, yeast, sugar and oil.
Every spoon is for one ingredient, you can see this on the side of the handle.
The rest you need are your 2 hands so you can enhance your breakfast with home-baked bread."
As I didn't find any price-information on-line, I'm afraid this set of spoons might still be in the prototype-phase. But since the project is popping up all over the internet right now, I have good hopes it won't be long until I can kiss my semi-prepared-bread-mix goodbye and instead use the Breadspoons to bake 'real' homemade bread.
Whoever has more information about a possible production of the spoons, please let me know!
21.5.12
A whole new world.
Alright, so it took me about three months to get used to this idea:
T and I are going to be parents...
parents!
Little Baby growing inside of me distracted me from... well from everything really...
Baby made me dread turning on the computer, instead had me spend my time sleeping (no escaping that), and googling pregnancy-stuff on my smartphone (how am I supposed to feel this week...).
Somehow (material) things like design, art and jewellery suddenly seemed less important.
Enlightened soul?
Nah... hormones probably.
Well, the first hormone-induced three months are finished and a temporary new normality is kicking in.
A normality that's all about finding a not-so-ugly diaper bag (almost impossible) and baby-proofing our temporary housing.
Luckily the worldwideweb offers loads of inspiration, so chances are I'll be all over this on-line world again soon.
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| Remember this one? Styled by Susanna Vento |
17.5.12
Save food from the fridge by Jihyun Ryou
Last week (10-11 May) the international design conference 'What Design Can Do' (WDCD) took place in Amsterdam for the second time. The conference focuses on the impact of design and featured international speakers like Hella Jongerius and Marcelo Rosenbaum.
Aside from the main programme, the audience has a chance to take part in so called 'break-out sessions', more interactive and smaller scaled presentations revolving around a certain theme.
The last edition I got to visit when a friend of mine had a spare ticket. I remember coming home inspired (albeit rather dazed from the long day of listening...), so when the BNO (Association for Dutch designers) asked me to moderate one of the break-out sessions this year, I couldn't say no.
The session I got to present was called 'What Green can do for Design' and -being organized by 'De Groene Offerte' ('the Green Offer'), a project of the BNO that focuses on uniting designers and clients in the search for sustainable design solutions- was all about sustainability.
During the break-out we had 6 presentations lined up. All from young designers who presented projects that all in some way had something to do with sustainability.
One of the speakers was Jihyun Ryou, a Korean designer who studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and currently lives in Amsterdam. She designed a project named 'Save food from the fridge'.
I actually remember noticing this project at a Design Academy graduation show some years ago. Its cleverness and low-tech esthetic appealed to me in such a way it is the only project I remembered from the whole show.
Here's (part of) what she writes about her project on the 'Save food from the fridge'-website.
"Through the research into the current situation of food preservation, I’ve learned that we hand over the responsibility of taking care of food to the technology, the refrigerator. We don’t observe the food any more and we don’t understand how to treat it.
Her design consists of 5 wall-elements, each specially suited to preserve a kind of food.
Aside from the main programme, the audience has a chance to take part in so called 'break-out sessions', more interactive and smaller scaled presentations revolving around a certain theme.
The last edition I got to visit when a friend of mine had a spare ticket. I remember coming home inspired (albeit rather dazed from the long day of listening...), so when the BNO (Association for Dutch designers) asked me to moderate one of the break-out sessions this year, I couldn't say no.
The session I got to present was called 'What Green can do for Design' and -being organized by 'De Groene Offerte' ('the Green Offer'), a project of the BNO that focuses on uniting designers and clients in the search for sustainable design solutions- was all about sustainability.
During the break-out we had 6 presentations lined up. All from young designers who presented projects that all in some way had something to do with sustainability.
One of the speakers was Jihyun Ryou, a Korean designer who studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and currently lives in Amsterdam. She designed a project named 'Save food from the fridge'.
I actually remember noticing this project at a Design Academy graduation show some years ago. Its cleverness and low-tech esthetic appealed to me in such a way it is the only project I remembered from the whole show.
Here's (part of) what she writes about her project on the 'Save food from the fridge'-website.
"Through the research into the current situation of food preservation, I’ve learned that we hand over the responsibility of taking care of food to the technology, the refrigerator. We don’t observe the food any more and we don’t understand how to treat it.
Therefore my design looks at re-introducing and re-evaluating traditional oral knowledge of food, which is closer to nature. Furthermore, it aims to bring back the connection between different levels of living beings, we as human beings and food ingredients as other living beings."
Her design consists of 5 wall-elements, each specially suited to preserve a kind of food.
As she told us during the presentation: right now it is possible to buy a (valuable) handmade version of the project by getting in touch with Jihyun personally. At the moment she is working on a produced version of the elements, which hopefully means her design will hit the stores (and my wall??) soon.
