These gingerbread cookies are probably not what your grandmother made for the holiday season, unless you've got a very liberal granny. Designed by Swedish company Pipparkakan, the Kama Sutra cookie cutters were actually made way back in 2007 and were featured on Gizmodo, and lots of other gadget and nerd sites. But I never saw a finished product until Taxi posted the pic shown above.
Whereas a few years ago, they were carried in many online stores, now they are nerly impossible to find, but you can order them from Pipparkakan directly.
The cutters come in 2 different boxes with 4 different cutters in each, which means that if you order both boxes you will have 8 different shapes.
One box including tax and shipping within Europe costs 325 SEK or 35 EUR.
One box including tax and shipping outside Europe costs 350 SEK or $55 USD.
They use PayPal. Shipping through regular Swedish Postal Service, approx 4-6 days from payment for Europe and US. Australia 5-9 days.
This is How to Order your Pipparkaka:
• Send an e-mail to order@pipparkakan.se
• Write your name and address and phone number and tell us which box that tickles you. The Black Silk or the Raspberry Purple, you can always order both.
• When you have placed your order you will get an e-mail from PayPal with a grateful request for payment, it will be sent to the e-mail address you used while placing the order. The box is sent to you as soon as payment has been received.
Enjoy a lustful cooking experience and bon appetit! And here's two Lovesick Recipes from them:
Kinky Glacé
1,5-2 dl icing sugar
Water
Oil
Baking colour
Pour the icing sugar into a small bowl. Carefully fill up with water so that it covers a centimeter over the sugar. Let rest for a while and then pour out the water that has not been absorbed by the sugar. Stir so that the glace is smooth and even.
If you want a shinier glace you just add a few drops of oil.
You can distribute the glace into more bowls and add cooking colour to get more colours to decorate with.
Then just use your imagination. Garters, hand cuffs and whips, a pipparkaka is not shy of anything, let the lust flow!
Pipparkaka dough ca 150
350 g butter
4 hg sugar
3 dl syrup
1 table spoon grinded ginger
1 tea spoon grinded cinnamon
1 tea spoon grinded clove
1 table spoom bicarbonate
3 dl whipped cream
1,5 kg flour
Stir melted butter, sugar and syrup to a nice mixture. Mix an elixir of love from the spices. Pour down the spice mix into the mixture and stir.
Whip the cream into a hard foam and pour down a little at the time.
Mix the bicarbonate with most of the flour and pour it into the mixture, knead into a steady dough. (Of course you can use various tools for this)
Wrap the dough into foil and let the love grow cool during the night... let the shapes inspire you in how to spent your time...
When the night is over, just do it! (Also the baking) Take some dough at the time and roll out large with a rolling pin to desired thickness, it does matter! The thinner, the harder... Dip the cutters in a bit of flour. Push the pipparkakor out of the flat dough and put on cold baking tins.
Grease or cover with baking paper and cook in the middle of the oven during 4-5 minutes at 200°C. Let the hot cookies cool off for a couple of minutes before you let yourself get seduced.
Interested in buying pipparkaksformar for your store? Please contact them at info@pipparkakan.se or call Susanne Burelo at +46 730-340 222
Like bad taste cookie cutters?
Then check out these:
Fetal Bites, fetus shaped cookie cutters. 
Crucifixion Cookie Cutters: 
Kama Sutra Cookies, Cookie Cutters and Lovesick Recipes
Mark Rothko Paintings Recreated In Colored Rice by Henry Hargreaves.
As an homage to legendary modern artist Mark Rothko, Henry Hargreaves has recreated six of Rothko's modern paintings using colored uncooked rice kernels and calling the series Mark Rice-Ko.
About The Artist:
Henry Hargreaves is a New Zealand still life, art and fashion photographer working out of his studio in Brooklyn, NYC.
His life long love of taking photos took an unexpected turn when he was spotted traveling through South East Asia and was whisked off to Europe to work as a high end fashion model. After 4 years on the other side of the camera and the catwalk he gave it up to pursue his own creative pursuits.
He has since established himself as a full time photographer known for fun, creative, provocative and memorable images. He has created a wide spectrum of work be it for commercial clients like Ralph Lauren, Sagmeister and Walsh, GQ, V, Esquire, New York Magazine or in personal projects like 3DD, a 3D Celebration of Breasts, The Death Row Last Meal series, Bacon Alphabet or the Edible Subway. What unites his work is his restless and curious mind, a fascination with the unusual or quirky and a desire to see how photography can illuminate the world and spark conversation.
Glamour Girls Who Will Give you Gas (or Steamy Cabbage) by Ju Duoqi.
Born in Chongqing in 1973, and a graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Ju Duoqi (shown above) is Chinese artist and photographer who first started working with vegetables in 2006. In 2008 she created a series of reproductions of classic painting reproductions using vegetables called 'The Vegetable Museum' and then, in 2010, this hilarious series "The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage." The project consisted of 18 portraits of pin-up girls and beautiful women made entirely out of green cabbage (the images that appear to use red cabbage are simply altered/inverted).
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 01, 2010
Aima
Size A: 150x120cm Edition:5
Size B: 100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 02, 2010
Ben
Size A: 150x120cm Edition: 5
Size B: 100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 03, 2010
Coco
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 04, 2010
Gaga
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 05, 2010
Guanyin
Size A: 150x120cm Edition:5
Size B: 100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 06, 2010
Lili
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 07, 2010
Oo
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 08, 2010
Mimi (After Marilyn)
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 09, 2010
Nowa
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 10, 2010
Nana
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 11, 2010
Susan
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 12, 2010
Wowo
Size A:150x120cm Edition:5
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 13, 2010
An
Size A:100x80cm Edition:12
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 14, 2010
Sara
Size A:100x80cm Edition:12
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 15, 2010
Loli
Size A:100x80cm Edition:12
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
The Fantasies of Chinese Cabbage - 16, 2010
Vivi
Size A:100x80cm Edition:12
Size B:100x80cm Edition:7
About Ju Duoqi:
She won the First Prize of Art Creativity category at China International Ecosystem Photography Festival in 2009 and her works has been published by the Guardian (UK), the Independent (UK), the Sun (UK), Publico (PT), Le Monde.fr (FR), Actuphoto (FR), Courrier International (FR), das Bild (GER), Muyt Interessante (SPAIN), the Irish Times (IR), Daily Times (Pakistan), Panorama (IT), Wall Street Journal (US), Yahoo!News, I LOOK (CN), China Daily (CN), Chip Foto-Video Digital, Photographers Companion, China Photo magazine, Life Week and Xinhua News Agency.
all images courtesy of the artist
Chocolate Moustaches On A Stick. Mr. Chocolate Is A Sweet Combination of Great Product, Great Packaging and Great Photographs.
MR. CHOCOLATE is an imaginative and yummy new product from The Chocolate Factory. The 6 different flavor options (Dark chocolate, Milk chocolate, Caramel, Strawberry, Orange and White chocolate) in 4 different styles give you 24 ways to sport (and eat) a new 'stache.
The fun molded chocolate moustaches were designed by Diego Ramos of Spain and come in fabulous award-winning packaging created by Ruiz + Company.
The wonderful shots of people with the product shown here were taken by photographer Caterina Barjau.
Flavors: Dark chocolate. Milk chocolate. Caramel. Strawberry. Orange. White chocolate.
Chocolate weight: Min. 20 g / Max. 55 g
Made with chocolate from Ghana
Buy on-line at Chocolate Factory
Sushi With Style. Laser Cut Designer Nori Created For Umino Seaweed Shop.
This story made the internet rounds last April and despite having been featured on such popular sites as Dvice, Designboom and Incredible Things, I had to share it in case you are one of the few who missed it. Even if you've seen these beautifully laser cut nori (seaweed) sushi rolls before, they're worth looking at again. Plus, I have some additional information, like the design credits and where they can be purchased.
Initially designed to help Japan's Umino Seaweed Shop increase sales after the 2011 Tsunami, the designer nori, which uses a thicker type of seaweed from from the Sanriku area of Miyagi, is now featured in 'Katagami Style’ an exhibit of 19th century Japanese stencil artwork, at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo.
The series of intricately laser-cut seaweed for rolling sushi comes in sheets of various designs:
'sakura' ('cherry blossoms') and 'mizutama' ('water drops'):
'asanoha' ('hemp'), 'kikkou' ('turtle shell'):
and 'kumikkou' ('tortoise shell'):
and is based on an element of japanese history or symbology, meant to bring beauty, good fortune, growth, happiness, and longevity.
However, the packaged designs available at the museum for the Katagami exhibit are five different ones, as shown below:
The laser-cut nori has been credited to agency I&S BBDO Tokyo (who designed the promotional materials shown below), but the actual laser-cutting is now being outsourced elsewhere. The project won the 2012 best of show Design Lotus for promotional materials at Adfest in Thailand.
Credits:
Company: I&S BBDO Inc., Tokyo
Title : DESIGN NORI (SEAWEED)
Brand: SEAWEED
Advertiser: UMINO SEAWEED STORE
Advertising Agency: I&S BBDO Inc., Tokyo
Executive Creative Director: Yoshihisa Ogata
Creative Director: Kenichiro Shigetomi
Copywriter: Kiyoyuki Enomoto/Ririko Murata
Art Director: Kenichiro Shigetomi
Designer: Kenichiro Shigetomi/Takuto Kawata
above: Hiroyuki Umino, director of Umino Seaweed
The pieces themselves are available for sale only through the retail location (#5261 Isohama-cho, Oarai, IBARAKI, JAPAN) and at the exhibition, currently for the price of 840 yen (approximately 10 $USD) each. In the future, Umino hopes to produce the nori on a larger scale and at lower cost.
Umino seaweed store:
address: #5261 Isohama-cho, Oarai, IBARAKI, JAPAN
images courtesy of Rocket News and The Inspiration Room and Monkeyzen
