Neat little look at how a recent cover of the New York Times was put together by photographer Craig Cutler. I always like to see behind the curtain of artworks, how an artist has solved the problem of making an idea physical this short piece from on Craig Cutler’s cover. Initial sketches and a pre-edit shot of the back of the burger shows an image reminiscent of models with their clothes pegged tight behind them. Take a read on the NY Times blog here.

Neat little look at how a recent cover of the New York Times was put together by photographer Craig Cutler.

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Times are hard, here’s how you can turn your vegetables into musical instruments before you cook them courtesy of J.Viewz. One of the great things about technology is that you have the power to transform everyday objects into amazing interactive things. Brooklyn based Producer J.Viewz has taken the MakeyMakey, a device that allows you to interact with the world and create digitally, and used it to wire up a bunch of musical ingredients. The result is a short but wonderful snippet of Teardrops by Massive Attack played with vegetables and fruit. Why not have a go at your own MakeyMakey contraption and order yourself the kit here - www.makeymakey.com

Times are hard, here’s how you can turn your vegetables into musical instruments before you cook them courtesy of J.Viewz.

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I haven’t posted a food related How To in awhile so here you go, Tom Aikens shows you how to put together a spring dish. Via Selectism

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FROM HEAD TO FEET: How to regrow celery:

fromheadtofeet:

I am not yet at the end of this process. But it has happened so successfully and quickly I wanted to share. Above is a photo of the end of celery from the grocery store. I put it in a bowl of plain water for a week. It grew noticeably every day and started putting out leaves.

I planted this…

This weeks theme will be food and cooking!

I love cooking, along side design it’s my second passion. So it felt fitting to dedicate a week of blogging to it, this week you’ll see: recipes, creative chefs and anything else interesting related to food.

Also later today will be the appearance of the next article on The How To: Project - How To: Lino Print

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