Pop up food events, food experiences, and fashion accessories are the way of making food design for Mani in Pasta Lisboa, a food design brand based in Lisbon – and now also present in Barcelona, founded by the architects Elisa Sartor and Valentina Toscano. “We will print our interactive accessories: tote bags, T-shirts, backpacks, kitchen cloths, and now beach towels too, creating social connections between those who wear them and who read them. We are aiming to bring the right dose of word design and contemporary craftsmanship for the first time to the city of Barcelona and it will happen in the heart of Born! We like to call it an urban acupuncture action!” Valentina and Elisa stated. For Barcelona Design Week 2017, on 7th of June Mani in Pasta proposesFOOD IS COLORS, a selection of writings that approach the world of Italian gastronomic specialities, emphasizing and rediscovering the concepts of geometry, shape, and colour, who themselves communicate unconsciously. Mani in Pasta cames up with the idea of a pop up live printing performance at Variopinte, a design store, bringing to Barcelona their own-designed “analogue alphabet” of wooden stamps made at the Fablab Lisboa. CONTEMPORARYEAT PASTAIS DESIGN // PASTA ES DISEÑO // PASTA ÉS DISSENY SPAGHETTO IS A LINE // SPAGHETTO ES UNA LINEA // SPAGHETTO ÉS UNA LÍNIA GNOCCHIARE POINTS // GNOCCHI SON PUNTOS // GNOCCHI SÓN PUNTS PIZZA IS A CIRCLE // PIZZA ES UN CÍRCULO // PIZZA ÉS UN CERCLE LASAGNAIS A SURFACE TOVAGLIAIS A PATTERN SCARPETTALITTLE SHOES LASAGNALAYERS TORTELLINOORIGAMI A further selection of 8 expressions playing with words of Spanish and Catalan gastronomic culture was thought to be ad hoc for the colourful concept store and Born neighbourhood that will host Mani in Pasta: VERMUTIS LIQUID // VERMUT ES LÍQUIDO // VERMUT ÉS LÍQUID // PAELLAIS YELLOW // PAELLA ES AMARILLA // PAELLA ÉS GROC // NARANJA IS ORANGE // NARANJAIS NARANJA // TARONJA ÉS TARONJA // TOMATE IS RED // TÓMATE ES ROJO // TOMÀQUET ÉSVERMELL // PIMIENTO IS GREEN // PIMIENTO ES VERDE // PEBROT ÉS VERD // ARROZ NEGRO // BIKINI DE VERANO // FOOD BORN // POP BORN // AJO POR AJO DIENTE POR DIENTE // ESTAS ROJO COMO UN CANGREJO On 8th, for BDW2017, Mani in Pasta proposes SUPER MANZANA, a live print performance that reveals an architectural interpretation of food. In collaboration with Fab Lab Lisboa, Mani in Pasta has designed and made the main ingredient of a design line: an alphabet of wooden stamps. With the letters, Valentina and Elisa will hand print interactive accessories that can generate urban and social connections between the user and the reader. “We want to create a virtuous link between Fab Lab Lisboa and Fab Lab BCN through our creative and cultural project. We want to show how we can make food without food, just throughout the architecture of words and imagination” they stated. SUPER MANZANA: the writing that best sums up the multidisciplinary nature of the project Mani in Pasta. Architecture, food, design, urban planning: all in one creative expression. Italian design for Spain, for Barcelona! By combining the idea of the block of the Plan Cerdá to the saying “an apple a day takes the doctor away” Elisa Sartor and ValentinaToscano felt inspired and then they had their classical Spanish phrases: YOGA-ZPACHO, HIJO DE FRUTA, HACEMOS MIGAS?, TOMATE TU TIEMPO, JA-MON AMOUR, PA AMB TOMAQUET, PATATAS BRAVAS… FOOD IS COLORS // Mani in Pasta meets Variopinte Variopinte, Carrer Comerç, 15, 08003 Barcelona 7th June 2017 12.00 – 21.00 SUPER MANZANA // Mani inPasta meets Fab†Lab BCN IAAC, Carrer de Pujades 102, 08005 Barcelona 8th June 2017 17.00 21.00 @maniinpasta.lisboa (instagram, facebook) @maniinpastalisboa (vimeo) https://www.facebook.com/events/1911109685813423/ https://barcelonadesignweek.com/en/programme/285/
