Monday is as good a day as any to start a diet, a new exercise regimen and give your liver a bit of a rest after a weekend of debauchery; yet how many of us make it through unscathed to say, lunchtime, remains to be seen. You might have had your low-fat, low-carbs, low-flavour smoothie for breakfast, but now you’ve bottomed out and everything is looking edible and appealing right now.
Mmm, wouldn’t the contents of your hole punch be a delectable sherbet-like treat, slowly dissolving on your tongue as you empty the “confetti” into your mouth with as much vigour as a bride on her wedding night? Doesn’t that pink highlighter sitting next to your rent-a-family photo frame look just delectable enough to lick? Could you just about go a good handful of thumbtacks to tide you between meals? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, step away from the stapler and pinch a biscuit from the tea room.
There is, however, some stationery and packaging that looks almost good enough to eat; and if you were to say, salivate at the sight of a pair of linked ‘C’ Chanel sausages, then you could be forgiven. Eat Me: Appetite For Design is a bountiful offering of beautiful design from Victionary; an homage to all things tasteful, it highlights the works of innovative folk, including 5.5 Designers. At 256 pages, you could hardly call it a light meal, but at US$40, it’s well priced enough to see you’re not rendered to bread-and-water rations.
Published on 20 February 2012 by Agony Uncle