Dreams & Discoveries: Eat Your Colours

Somehow I feel like the world knows exactly what I'm thinking and every time I dream up a little project or think up a little thought, my idea, still unborn in my end of the world, will somehow sprout up before me into the real world. It's a little stalkerish in a psychic sort of way... I mean I've had Frankie read my mind countless of times, where they'll feature articles and segments which were completely in-tuned with my thinking during the time (and to think they plan their issues 4 months before its release! How bizarre is that?). Let me put it into perspective:

Me: *Thought about how we're so dependent on plastic. Realised how it's everywhere in everything we use. Thought about whether one can live without it* Frankie: *30 days feature: 30 days without plastic*
Me: *Being a hoarder myself, friend linked me to A Collection A Day blog*Frankie: *Features A Collection A Day Blog*
Me: *Reflected on recent event of being asked "Where are you from". Thought about the strangeness and awkwardness of the question and being unsure on how to tackle it* (needtorambleaboutthisinanearfuturepost)Frankie: *Everyone Has A Story feature: (first line) "A lot of people ask me where I'm from..."*

I could go on but I realise I'm going on a tangent...

Anyways, so recently I dreamt up this campaign idea I wanted to call Eat Your Colours which basically promotes eating a variety of Fruit and Vegetables but in an artistic & visual way. I imagined a colour palette of fruits & vegetables arranged in classic rainbow colour wheel style, gradients of ripening fruit, and architectural cross sections of apples & pears all in fashion of minimal overhead photographs which embraced the colour and natural forms of my beautiful plant friends. Of course there's a lot more researching, planning and experimentation that needs to happen before I'm able to make it happen but for today I was pleasantly surprised with a new discovery that popped up on my Facebook feed via Anthology Magazine:

Absolutely genius edible piece of concept "Pantone Tarts" by French food designer Emilie De Griottes!

It got me so inspired - this was almost exactly the kind of thing I was aiming for in my future dream project. Even though the Pantone Tarts weren't exactly for promoting healthy colourful eating it certainly hit the spot for me on incorporating habits of the world of design into the context of food. I'll probably feature all the wonderful food/art/design discoveries on the blog section for my future dream website.

There's actually a lot of amazing things happening with the intersection of Food, Art and Design. I'm hoping to make another blog (another blog? what?) dedicated to this and share with you all the wonderful discoveries I've made during the past few years. I'm really excited for this actually... and it seems like things like these keep on coming!