Food Font at the RIPE Festival at Cleveland Botanical Garden – This Weekend
This weekend Food Font will be at the RIPE! festival at Cleveland Botanical Gardens from 11am-dusk. The festival has lots of fresh food, gardening talks, culinary workshops, and activities. Come stop by and make a letter – we will be making alphabets out of cucumbers, beans, squash, and broccoli/cauliflower. Also – if you like pancakes, there is a pancake “flipoff” [...]
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Meograph – A New 4 Dimensional Storytelling Tool
I recently got a press release about Meograph, a new online tool that allows users to create and share interactive stories using Google Earth and Google search. Users can select media that assembled on a timeline. Google map images, llinks, a voiceover, and other media can be used to create multimedia videos. Founder Misha Leybovich wanted to create the tool so [...]
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Food Font – at Ingenuity Festival September 15-16
Food Font will be at the Ingenuity festival this weekend on Saturday and Sunday September 15th and 16th from 12-5pm. We will be making alphabets out of local food. Two alphabets are planned – one made from corn and one made of coffee and tea. We are sharing a table with Edible Foods Cleveland magazine, so you can check out the [...]
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Faig Ahmed: Constructing and Deconstructing Language in Rugs
Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed is an artist whose work focuses on the construction and deconstruction of traditional patterned rugs and carpets. Carpets were initially seen as a sophisticated form of writing rather than a decorative piece. Each element of the pattern was once a written sign. Ahmed’s work explores how a carpet is more a time structure than a graphical [...]
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Tosa Market – New Food Alphabet in the Works
Last weekend Food Font was at the Tosa Farmers Market outside of Milwaukee, WI. People were really excited about the project, and we made two (which is a record for the number of alphabets made at one event) alphabets, both an uppercase and lowercase alphabet. The vegetables we used were from: Jay’s Plant Shop – Eggplant Petzold Farms – Carrots, [...]
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