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From Japan.

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‘Ginger takes the time to infuse her ganache centers with a variety of aromatics and does not use any extracts’

Nuance. Fantastic flavors. INcredible.

Here’s the website, Ginger’s bio and (most important) online store (since Feb 14th is, like, so sooon).

Local store too, if you’re in or around Sacramento. Interiors designed by blankblank. Sign up for the mailing list, classes offered seasonally.

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The lettering on the label caught my eye. Russian chocolate bar found at a Korean market.

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Found via Boing Boing Gadgets

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‘Healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food’

The work of designer Daizi Zheng.

More images here.

Found via Dezeen

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Recently, I featured a preview of the new collection I’m working on with Pretty Trashy. A few of these one of a kind pieces are now for sale thru the Bows and Arrows store at Etsy.

Click on the images for product info/jump.

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‘Still recovering from broken trust, neither wanted to be the first to try the eggs.’
(Dwell, November 2009)

Over at Tumblr, a blog with dark captions for photos from Dwell magazine.

More here. Twitter here.

‘In search of a less bleak playground, the toddler pedaled faster.’
(Dwell, June 2004)

‘Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome.’
(Dwell, November 2009)

‘He is sad because his house looks like an elementary school. And all the children have died.’
(Dwell, February 2008)

Found via Twitter.com/exspiro

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Advertising typography for Italian Roast Coffee; crayon on paper

The work of London-based designer Mitsuhiro Aita.

Visit his website. Much more to see.

Italian Roast Coffee: Shadow and texture experiments

Italian Roast Coffee: 100 sheets of burnt white paper

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‘If you don’t want to be taken for a tourist in Italy, you should drink coffee as and when the locals do.’

Article here.

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Found via Designer Daily

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‘Tracing the slow-food movement back to its feisty Italian roots’

Article here.

More about slow food here.

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