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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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Coffee or tea? Click the image to vote/jump.

Found via Twitter.com/ashetler

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

Article here.

More about slow food here.

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Video for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Heaven Can Wait, featuring Beck. Directed by Keith Schofield.

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album IRM dropped this week, find it here. Official website here. Blog here.

Below, live performance of Trick Pony on Letterman from last week:

And
Her work for Balenciaga and Vogue Paris.

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I like a good greasy spoon.

A few weeks back I went in search of a good old school diner joint. Haven’t found many good local ones, often food plated up is basic food service quality. Found a small gem though: I ended up at at the Lodge Coffee Shop in Citrus Heights.

Open since 1958, the Lodge is a mix of interesting interior styles. Some original mid-century ski lodge touches (A-frame building), some googie (a little bit), some 1970s ‘harvest-theme’ updates, a splash of 1990s country – and a fish tank where all the fish are named ‘Dave.’ To avoid confusion.

What hooked me was an authentic Chicken Fried Steak with a really good sausage/bulldog gravy. Not a deep-fried burger, but a breaded cube steak, grilled to order. Like it’s supposed to be done. The owner works the kitchen.

Had a few quiet breakfusts there recently. Ate and organized ideas/projects in my sketchbook. Nice start to my day.

Lodge opens at 6 a.m. [map]

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Photo by TKayla

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‘The idea of poaching salmon in a dishwasher has been around for a long time  . . .  and gourmet cook Vincent Price is said to have once cooked it on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show’ –Tom Scott

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Useful or useless? David Kadavy takes a look.

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