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Let’s face it, who doesn’t like food? One aspect that makes food look so appetizing is the vivid and brilliant colors of the ingredients. Photographer and food stylist Linda Lundgren takes food color to a whole new level. She separates food by color, and mixes them with frozen food packaging, then organizes them in [ READ MORE ]
Artist Christopher Marley puts together bugs for your walls. The kind you would actually like to display, with exotic neon colors and beautiful shapes. From beetles to crabs, flowers to fossils, Christopher sets a stage for these wonders of nature by neatly setting them in dazzling compositions. The tight alignments and intricacies in his pieces resonate [ READ MORE ]
There’s no doubt that alfalfa studio has been known for it’s design. But do you know that we’re also passionate about cooking? Most alfalfa intern graduates are either passionate chef wannabe or absolute food lovers. For instance, Wendy Hu has kept a visual food diary for couple of years. Myself, I love trying my cooking [ READ MORE ]
“It is the calculator app for those of us who believe calculators should work the way we do.” Shift. The truth is there are many calculators out there. But let’s face it most of them are not great looking neither do things the way we like them. They are good if you don’t need to email [ READ MORE ]
I was recently introduced to a Tetris-like masterpiece– Eliss, an award winning gaming app for the iPhone, iPod, and now the iPad. For someone who grew up playing on the Atari and Nintendo consoles, finding the perfect game for the touch interface was like childhood all over again. Thank you Steph Thirion! Eliss – trailer from Steph [ READ MORE ]
Here at alfalfa studio, we love technology as much as we love design. We are constantly scouting for new experiments in design and technology. Andrey Yazev is an ultra-talented designer/programmer from Russia who, by experimenting, has been pushing the boundaries of user interface. This fluid scrollbars, for example, was created in 2009. Go check it [ READ MORE ]
Recognize the poster above? It’s one of Béatrice Coron’s many paper cuts, this specific one being the backdrop of your subway ride around New York City. With every intricate paper cut Béatrice tells a story. On a visit to the Museum of Arts and Design last year, we were lucky to watch her cutting away her [ READ MORE ]
Take New York city’s mix of yellow cabs, varied cultures, its pedestrians, and park a brightly painted piano in the middle of a traffic island in the Meatpacking District. This was only one of 60 locations in New York’s 5 boroughs, that housed the “Play me, I’m yours” pianos, an art installation by British artist, [ READ MORE ]
UK psychologist Mark Millard said “Creative people… tend to see the world differently to most. It’s like looking at a shattered mirror” That is true in the case of Brooklyn born fashion designer (and alfalfa studio’s friend) Nina Valenti. To express the way she sees the world Nina founded NaturevsFuture in 2002, six years after [ READ MORE ]
Friends, alfalfa studio needs you! We just received fabulous samples of our next alfalfa-seeds.com collection, the Seven Latin Divas. Now we need YOU to make them look great. We are looking for male and female models in the NYC area, all nationalities. No previous experience required. Only requirements: You must look good in a tee shirt [ READ MORE ]