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Welcome to food graffiti! food graffiti a food design blog and something of a New Year's resolution.

I would say design is a way of life, like art is a way of life. I think of  art as a search for beauty, and design as the conscience application of what was found searching.  If art is flowing and shapeless like water, then design is a bottle or a container that gives art a specific form. Art is hard to understand I think, but good design helps anyone recognize what an artist is trying to say.

Food is a necessary part of life as well as a way of it. Everyone knows that eating badly hurts your body. But like eating badly can hurt you, eating well can make you healthier, stronger, and happier. Good design also gives us good impressions, just like bad design gives us bad impressions. Anything can be designed, so of course food can be designed too. Interior designers, city planners, and graphic designers all understand how important good design is to change how people see and think, but chefs understand it too.

The thing is though, not everyone feels confident about making good food, let alone making it look pretty, right? That's where I hope this blog will come in. I want to show you how fun, creative, and original you can be with food without worrying too much about recipes, traditions, or not having the right ingredients on hand at the time. That's why the recipes here are loose and based more on ingredient types rather than specific ingredients - oil, leaves, herbs, that kind of thing. Along the way I hope to show you tips and ideas that will have you - metaphorically - spray-painting the culinary brick wall of your kitchen.

My name is Daniel Chamberlin. By combining good eating with good design I believe anyone can make some awesome food, and I want to share that with you. Take the paint you have laying around - let's make some graffiti!