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A year ago, I bumped into a series of flag designs created out of food for Australian Food Festival. The idea was simple, each flag was composed with traditional food elements that related with each country. And then me and Honey thought, what would it be if it were a Malaysian flag? Would it be made out of nasi lemak? Or chicken curry?

Jalur Gemilang was designed by Mohamed Hamzah in 1947 for the Malaysian flag design competition. The first design was a green flag with blue kris in the middle, surrounded by 15 white stars. The second design, which was among the three finalists, was similar to the current flag but with a five-pointed star. He borrowed major elements from the American flag, by using stripes as the idea to represent the 14 states.

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This project started when our new intern The Charlie joined us at FC for a short stint. As usual, I was doing some research on food and design projects while talking about random ideas with her when we somehow thought of making food origami. We initially wanted to stick a few pieces of paper together to construct different food shapes, but we wanted more of a challenge. After figuring out what to make, The Charlie and I decided to make a durian. We researched sites to figure out the structure from scratch. It was a day for origami enthusiasts like us to get busy pressing play and pause on polyhedron tutorial videos while patiently folding sonobes. Surprisingly, that makes us happy...we're weird that way.



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Building a city out of cookies is not a new idea. In fact, many people have done it before, be it by stacking cookies to imitate the city, or by simply making a cake that is in the shape of a building. This makes a great analogy between cooking and architecture, where both can be seen as lofty art or simply as a humble craft.



I was talking to a friend who's working on some construction projects when this came to mind. When he talks about materials related to construct a building, I think of the juxtaposition from a food perspective. And a simple one that I came up with was cookies.


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