Designing taste: The secret recipe behind BAO London
From zines to karaoke, BAO London’s co-founder Erchen Chang sieves her fine art background with Taiwanese culinary traditions to craft not just buns, but a multi-dimensional dining experience
- Words Ayla Angelos
Food has been a long standing muse for the creative world. Irving Penn photographed succulent still lifes in the 1940s, with berries glazed and cheese oozing out of the pixels, while Paul Cézanne painted abstracted fruits as far back as the 1870s. More recently, Marina Abramović performed her Feast of the Gods, where elaborate tablespaces filled with food became an essential part of the art; David Edwards created bite-sized foods encased in edible packaging; Bompas & Parr built entire landscapes out of jelly; and Sam Boxer used ham and cheese to create Gut magazine’s food issue title fonts. Increasingly, brands and creators are turning to the pleasure of eating as their hook in order to
Issue 2 Launch Party
Anima toasts to Issue 2 at The Cadogan
Joseph Zeal-Henry on designing inclusive urban spaces
From the Greater London Authority to the Venice Architecture Biennale, Joseph Zeal-Henry is revolutionising urbanism with a focus on …
Living on the Moon
What does it take to design a habitable civilisation on the Moon? Hassell reveals the Lunar Habitat Masterplan, offering a glimpse …
The thinking behind the first compactly stackable chair
In an extract from Phaidon’s monograph on David Rowland, Erwin Rowland and Laura Schenone explore the development and impact of the …
Alternatives to Charcoal
For affluent westerners charcoal is the means to add flavour to garden barbecues. But in much of the world, with no affordable …
Anima Issue 2
The thinking behind our latest issue.
Designing the uncanny: How sci-fi has shaped our future
From 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) to the Metaverse, Vitra Design Museum's new exhibition showcases the mutual influence of …
Dieter Rams looks back at Braun and forward for Vitsœ
Designed 65 years ago, Dieter Rams’ shelving system, now made in Britain, has outlived his work at Braun
The political uses of typography
Few typefaces carry as much political weight as Futura. From avant-garde to mainstream, to being in Barbara Kruger’s hands and then …
What is next for Samuel Ross
The polymath in conversation with Ayla Angelos
Nathalie du Pasquier is inspired
The artist Nathalie du Pasquier talks about the things that influence her work
Afrosport
AFROSPORT, a new publication from Mami Wata, spotlights Africa’s history and global influence through sport and design
Where design meets art
Clémence and Didier Krzentowski set up Galerie kreo in Paris as the outcome of their personal collection. It provides a distinctive …
Nuclear Sublime
Michael Collins was given access to Britain’s nuclear power stations. His photographs provide an insight into a remarkable series of …
Alessandro Mendini Retrospective
Alessandro Mendini was a designer who was as interested in ideas as he was in things
A language without words
From ancient hieroglyphs to the Olympic Games and architectural signs for the deaf community, pictograms have become a powerful tool …
Anima talks to perhaps the most successful and prolific furniture designer of his generation
