When You Hunger For Modern Design. Baked Goods Almost Too Beautiful To Eat.

Modern Bite has transformed cookies, cupcakes and cakes into art you can eat. The Los Angeles Bakery combines the design talents of Greg Roth with the baking expertise of Daniel Shapiro resulting in some of the most beautiful and sophisticated desserts you've ever seen.



Flavor options, design options, custom versions and boxed assortments of their baked goods are available both locally and shipped via Fed Ex. If you are looking for a memorable way to satisfy both your eyes and stomachs, Modern Bite bakery is the place.



Their shortbread cookies come in the three design collections shown below or single versions of the nine beautiful options.





Also available are an array of eight gourmet cookies, ranging from classic Chocolate Chip to Tofu Peanut Pretzel Cookies.

Cupcakes are available in three different modern design versions with your choice of chocolate. vanilla or red velvet cake and your choice of chocolate or cream cheese frosting:


Fondant cakes for birthdays, holidays and any other occasion are available in beautiful modern designs or custom versions. Here are a few of my favorites:












Classic cakes include carrot, vanilla salted caramel, chocolate, red velvet, vanilla birthday cake and a dobosh torte.

all images and info courtesy of Modern Bite

MODERN BITE puts an innovative design spin on mouth-wateringly delicious desserts. With a focus on delectable taste and texture and impeccable detail and artistry, the Los Angeles-based bakery brings the highest caliber ingredients and individualized customer service to its uniquely styled baked treats.

Creations from the MODERN BITE kitchen are the culmination of its partners’ passions and backgrounds.

At age 14, Daniel Shapiro parlayed his love of baking into a small business making and selling cakes to restaurants in his native Montreal. After earning an MBA from The Wharton School, he dedicated over twenty years to the branding and marketing of renowned entertainment and lifestyle companies.

As MODERN BITE’s visual tastemaker, Greg Roth draws on his fine art and architecture studies at Brown University and the Southern California Institute of Architecture, as well as two decades of experience designing restaurants and private residences.


MODERN BITE

Eight Pancake Portraits From Snooki To The GOS and A Video Of The Artist At Work.

above: Snooki, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattison pancakes

Artist Katherine Kalnes of La Grange, Illinois has been frying up celebrity pancake portraits with Batter Blaster (pancake batter in a can) for awhile now. The 26 year old Kalnes adds frosting for hair and blueberries, raisins and chocolate chips for the eyes.


above: Katherine Kalnes at work with Batter Blaster.

You may have seen the Justin Bieber, Ryan Gosling. Kelly Ripa, Stephen Colbert and Ellen Degeneres pancake portraits on HuffPo or Oddity Central, but Snooki and the heart throbs from the Twilight movies, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattison, are two of her latest delicious additions.

Ryan Gosling:

Justin Bieber:

Kelly Ripa:

Ellen Degeneres:

Stephen Colbert:


Video of an interview with the artist for NBC Chicago:


all images courtesy of and ©katherine Kalnes

Ads For Burger King, Netherlands & Germany That Will Catch your Eye.

It may not make you hunger for a burger, but this latest ad from Burger King, Netherlands is certainly eye-catching.

Clearly, they enjoy the visual puns. Here's a few more previous ads for Burger King in Germany (a reader corrected my original post) and the Netherlands that are visual treats:

Hungry For Art? Sandwiches As An Homage To Modern & Contemporary Artists.

above: The Piet Mondrian Sandwich by Brittany Powell

Brittany Powell's project, Sandwich Art, turns the classic sammy into interpretations of pieces by famous modern and contemporary artists. From Marcel Duchamp to Damian Hirst, cheese, lettuce and condiments are the medium and the bread is the canvas.

Below the image of each open faced masterpiece is a link to the artist whose work it is referencing.

The Hirst Sandwich:

Damien Hirst

Jasper Johns Sandwich:

Jasper Johns

The Klimt Sandwich:

Gustav Klimt

The O'Keeffe Sandwich:

Georgia O'Keeffe

The Pollock Sandwich:

Jackson Pollock

The Rothko Sandwich:

Mark Rothko

Marcel Duchamp Sandwich:

inspired by this piece of art

The Christo Sandwich:

Christo

Artist and designer Brittany Powell, along with Tae Kitakata, who both attended California College of The Arts, have collaborated on many projects and together alternate sharing their work on their site, low commitment projects.

Via Taxi via booooooom via Swiss-Miss (none of whom showed all of the sandwiches)

If you enjoyed that, you'll like this:


Modern Art Placemats That Turn Fine Art Into Food.

Mouth Watering Gift Wrap. Conceptual Wrapping Paper from Gift Couture.

Sarah Fey and Justin Colt, New York graphic designers and graduates of Penn State University, have conceived of a new way to make your gifts even more desirable.

They've begun a start-up company named Gift Couture that offers coordinated wrapping paper lines, each featuring a unique and original concept. Their introductory design is truly a tasty one.



The Cheeseburger set they chose as the initial project includes 5 different wrapping paper designs; a bun, hamburger, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes, all of the components of a Cheeseburger.





Each complete set of Cheeseburger wrapping paper will be packaged and include the following:
2 - 27" x 40" Sheets of Bun
1 - 27" x 40" Sheet of Hamburger
1 - 27" x 40" Sheet of Cheese
1 - 27" x 40" Sheet of Lettuce
1 - 27" x 40" Sheet of Tomatoes

In order to get this project and Gift Couture off the ground, they are asking for pre-order funding via kickstarter. This will encourage and enable them to release additional coordinated sets, which will be available online and through retail partners.

Everyone who contributes to their project will be featured on a special contributors section of the upcoming official Gift Couture website. They are also offering individual wrapping paper sheets or complete sets, and their highest backers will each receive one of their hand-made golden cheeseburger trophies (shown below) as a sign of their appreciation!



Order your Cheeseburger gift wrap set and help Sarah and Justin to launch Gift Couture here.

Finger Lickin' Landscapes. Photos of Edible Environments by Carl Warner.

Photographer Carl Warner creates miniature worlds crafted entirely of food, textiles or other objects and then photographs them. Today I want to share with you his Foodscapes, as he calls them. Meat mountains, broccoli trees, cabbage seas, chocolate rivers and cereal leaves are just some of the fun elements in the dioramas. Made with most things edible, the landscapes and buildings have obvious commercial applications, but some are just as appetizing to gaze upon. He even sells photographic prints of them (links to purchase the prints, a book and the new wall calendar are at the end of this post).

About creating his Foodscapes, Carl says:
The ‘Foodscapes’ are created in Carl’s London studio where they are built on top of a large purpose built triangular table top. The scenes are photographed in layers from foreground to background and sky as the process is very time consuming and so the food quickly wilts under the lights. Each element is then put together in post production to achieve the final image.

“Although I’m very hands on with my work, I do use model makers and food stylists to help me create the sets. I tend to start with a drawing which I sketch out in order to get the composition worked out, this acts as a blue print for the team to work to.”

Once the drawing is agreed upon, Carl then works out what each part of the scene will be made from, and working with his food stylist they together determine the best ingredients to work with in order to achieve his aims.

“I tend to draw a very conventional landscape using classic compositional techniques as I need to fool the viewer into thinking it is a real scene at first glance, it is the realisation that the scene is in fact made of food that brings a smile that brings a smile to the viewer, and for me that’s the best part”

Having worked for many years as a photographer bringing ideas to life for advertising agencies Carl became very experienced in lighting, and especially the recreation of natural looking light using a combination of tungsten and flash lighting equipment.

“I’ve always enjoyed the discipline of working in the studio, and the spontaneity of working outdoors in natural light, as you never know what you’re going to get. With my ‘Foodscapes’ I can now put together the knowledge of natural light with the control of recreating it in the studio in order to bring out the colours and textures as well as the beauty of a scene”

These images can take up to two or three days to build and photograph and then a couple of days retouching and fine tuning the images to blend all the elements together. Carl spends a lot of time planning each image before shooting in order to choose the best ingredients to replicate larger scale shapes and forms within nature, so he spends a lot of time staring at vegetables in supermarkets which makes him seem a little odd! However, he is careful to point out that finding the right shaped broccoli to use as a tree is an all important task.

“Although there is a fair amount of waste, there is a lot of food left over which is always shared out with the team, though most of the food used in the sets have either been super glued or pinned and none of this makes for good eating!”

About Carl:

Born in Liverpool, 1963 Carl has spent most of his life drawing and taking pictures. He has worked mainly in the advertising industry for the past twenty years, based at his London studio, and now lives with his long suffering wife and four children in the Kent countryside.




A book of his Food Landscapes was published last year and shows 'behind the scenes' pictures of Carl at work as well as descriptions in his own words of how they were inspired and created. And a new 2012 Wall Calendar featuring his Foodscapes is also available.



You can buy prints of some of his amazing Foodscapes here.

See all of his various types of photography at his website