Jonathan Moore
I am a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
I am a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
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Armed with a pellet rifle, homemade flash and camera photographer Alan Sailer captures exploding objects from sugary treats to troll dolls. Check out his massive collection of explosions on Flickr.
To help launch the new restaurant and bar RAY LEMON, design studio LSDK created a suite of branding and invite elements. The entire vibrant identity set feels both fresh and unique down to the origami invitations filled with spices and ingredients featured in their current menu.
In addition to the usual posts this week, I will be curating daily posts featuring projects recently posted to the creative network Behance. You can follow along on my blog with the Behance tag.
UnderConsideration just launched yet another division with Art of the Menu to feature menu design from around the world. This one is worth bookmarking along with Brand New, FPO and Quipsologies.
Going past the aesthetics, the best menu design is actually a science in guiding the patron into purchasing the stars (popular money makers) and away from the plowhorses (popular, but expensive for the restaurant). Read The Science of Menu Design posted here a year ago.
“It was the precise moment that Frankie knew those advanced judo lessons were really going to pay off.”
Taking inspiration from early 1900s latin, hand-carved letterpress signs and vintage food labels, Mexican studio Esrawe created a fresh interior for Cielito Querido Café. The bold pink and blue typography combine with the natural materials give the café a unique feel.
Ever wonder how they pull off those long stringy cheese shots in pizza commercials? Apparently it involves screws, blow torches, q-tips, skilled hand models, and patience. Dominos put together this interesting look into the food styling that goes into shoots as a part of a user generated content campaign for customers to submit what their pizza really looks like.
BBQWar began as an idea by Ismael Burciaga while he was barbecuing one day and posting images via Twitter. A couple of Ismael’s friends also began tweeting tantalizing pictures of what they were grilling. Soon it became obvious that a grilling “war” had been unofficially declared, so Ismael began placing #BBQWar on his tweets to his friends with an image attached. Several weeks later, the site ‘BBQWar’ was birthed.
Graphic designer Audrée Lapierre created this nutrition data packaging as a self-initiated project at the user interface and data visualization studio ffunction. Using a clean graphic approach he visualized caloric ratios, nutrient balance, ingredients, and nutritional information.
Although I think the packaging is an interesting exercise in data visualization it would leave most consumers thinking “ok, so what do I do with this information”. The really great data visualization goes beyond presenting all of the information to digesting the information into an actionable presentation.
What do you think?
Students at the California College of the Arts URBANlab program took on the surprisingly difficult task of tracking the ingredients from a taco purchased at Juan’s Taco Truck in San Francisco’s Mission District.
-Fast Company, The Anatomy of the Taco
Read the full article on Good.is, Your Taco, Deconstructed
