Food
Design
Library
Our food design library is the first in the world. Food design is a new field.
Although the first food designers started over 25 years ago, the discipline has only really spread worldwide in the last 10 years. Nowadays, there are food design courses and organizations. That is not so strange. Food design is not about beautiful food. It is about looking differently at something you think you already know: Food. But what is food actually? Why do people eat pigs but not dogs? Carrots but not lichen?
Dive into the world of food design.
Food designers use food to make you look at the world differently. Sometimes they make dinners and tastings. But very often they also make future food, they do workshops to get children to eat vegetables, they help people with Alzheimer's to recall memories with food, or they make new applications for seaweed, for example.
Food designers have a serving role. They build bridges. Between farmers and consumers, for example. Between scientists and children or between bacteria and artists. These bridges are not ordinary bridges. They are more like roller coasters with loops. While you can go from one side of the bridge to the other, you float upside down and see the world differently. That is the role of the food designer; to make things we take for granted magical again. To show the other side of food. To turn on your wonder button about food.
In the Food design library you can see what food designers from all over the world are doing and you can read what they think about it, what strategies they use, and what inspires them.
The library is still under development and far from complete, just like the field itself.
Sit back, browse through the books and get inspired.
food design shop
In the library you will also find a food design shop. With food design books, but also other inspiring gifts for yourself or to give as a gift.
