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Designed by UK-based design student Alex Creamer. Details here.

Found via Ashley Simko

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Here’s a massive photoset of Kazuko Shinoka’s (extra firm) version 1.0 Tofu Robot!

And
Here’s snaps of v. 2.0  . . . .

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. . .  with mascarpone and balsamic syrup. Recipe here.

Found via Design Crush

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I can’t seem to find it anymore, but Trader Joe’s had a macadamia cashew nut butter that went well with marshmallow creme. Made a fluffernutter better than with peanut butter. Marshmallow Fluff is the stuff to use. Here’s a cookbook too.

Fluffernutter, from the Marshmallow Fluff website

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Milk advertisement, WPA art program (1940)

When exactly did humans first think to drink milk?

Here’s an article with new findings here. And the traditional historical timeline here.

And Chevy Chase on milk (1976), below:

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I Wanna Be Your Dog from LEGS on Vimeo

‘A subversive take on the casting process directed by Legs’ Georgie Greville, based on the Iggy Pop song I Wanna Be Your Dog. Georgie won the Samsung Grand Prix for this piece at Diane Pernet’s festival A Shaded View on Fashion Film.

Found via Martine Trelaun

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Elegant British jasperware reinterpreted in latex. Hat, neckpiece, mitts and pasties. By Peacock Blue Design Studio. Details.

Apnea, photographed by Ken Penn

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More from the UK: Chocochic Very Vanilla Almonds Covered in White Chocolate. Brand and packaging designed by Pure Equator.

Found via Popsop

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Signature blue vanilla swirl cupcake from UK-based Star Bakery.

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Something weird happened between now and the 1970s. Vanilla turned brown. Or beige. Or something like that.

I remember Shasta Creme Soda used to come in a metallic blue can. A lot like their cola can, but more of a turquoise blue. To find something vanilla, all one had to do was look for the blue packaging. It was a design standard.

Joyva Halvah (above) still gets it. They still use their old can design.

Vanilla was blue. Something happened and it isn’t anymore.

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The original type punches of Giabattista Bodoni (1740-1813) are in bad shape and the Friends of the Palatina Library and the Bodoni Museum are raising funds to restore the full set of over 600 alphabets.

Bodoni’s multiple alphabets contain some incredibly detailed wonders – with craft beyond many of the digital versions that exist today.

You can adopt part or a whole alphabet. For more info, go here.

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