food & design? – HEL YES!
Photo by Manuel Vazquez and copyright by Hel Yes
I love it when I get links like this one by a tweet of Igor Schwarzmann. Within a post a few months ago, I was talking about the connection between food and design. And the team of HEL YES! brings it to the maximum. Antto Melasniemi, Mia Wallenius, and Klaus Haapaniemi, three creatives from Finland created something outstanding:
“Can furniture be made from trees thinned out from the forest?
Can a new dinner set be created from donated plates?
Can a restaurant gather ingredients straight from the forest?
Can something new come out of foraging the old?
HEL YES! is a temporary restaurant and exhibition imagined and realised by a creative team of Finnish designers and food visionaries…” (via helyes.fi)
Photo by Adam Laycock and copyright by Hel Yes
The idea is as simple as good. You bring together designer and creatives, you put them on a table, cook some amazing traditional food and let those people discuss about certain topics, like a design dialogue between Helsinki and London. On their website you can see sample recipes, and they even created a soundtrack for the events in London.
Photo by Adam Laycock and copyright by Hel Yes
I just love the idea. It reminds me of the awesome dinner at the apartment, I reported about it a a long time ago.
Since I am studying at the School of Art and Design Helsinki, and I am involved in the Kitchen Guerilla, and I organized an event where creative people talked about their passion and their projects, I am currently thinking about organizing such an event myself. An event that combines all of my interests and beliefs: food, design, ideas, sharing.
What would you think of that? I will let this idea travel trough my mind and give you some feedback soon.
5 Comments
baobabs
Hi there,
so happy to have found your blog! I’m interested in exactly the same ideas as you are, only that I do more writing and concepts due to the lack of talent in the design department.
You might find my Thai friend’s ice cream design portfolio worth exploring! http://www.icedea.net and her most updated works on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/icedea?ref=search
sushi ice cream, colour blind ice cream, and cigarette flavoured ice cream, you name it—she’s thought about it. Enjoy!
baobabs
oh and sometime ago, i contributed to Theme magazine’s “For the love of food” issue, there’s a brilliant soundtrack made just for the issue.
http://www.thememagazine.com/stories/soundtrack-food/
I LOVE LOVE your blog! :)
MarcoBerlin
my opinion is easy and my feedback as well. Hi there, first of all.
i love it. concept is amazing.idea is amazing anyway and THEN if you have the right crew, the realization will be fantastic :)
love to read your thoughts soon and i might share this on my blog as well! Just love it, not just because we shae some interests and beliefs.
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Vito Gionatan Lassandro
Hello,
we would like to invite you to submit your designs for the launch of the Food For Future 2011 exhibition during the Salone del Mobile 2011 in Milan.
We have seen your projects and we really like it.
More details on the Foodam web site: http://www.foodam.com/
Fore further informations please contact us.
Best regards.
Vito Gionatan Lassandro