Nicole LaFave is the San Francisco, California-based founder and graphic designer of Design Womb. This is a port to share, show & tell. Expect food, pugs, paper & design.
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Tuesday May 8th, 2012
Baking Babycakes NYC Cheese Sticks from Nicole LaFave on Vimeo.
Nerdy little step video of my Babycakes NYC cheese stick experiment from this past February. The recipe is from BabyCakes Covers the Classics. They were delicious.
Tuesday January 17th, 2012
The Beachy Cream ice cream sandwich packaging sleeves have arrived. Inspired by fun in the sun, beach balls and polka dot bikinis, ice cream just got a whole lot more fun. These are going to make killer favors at parties & weddings. You can see more of the branding project for my client here or visit their site to order ice cream online.
Monday January 16th, 2012
I got a fun little surprise email with a link to this wedding on snippet & ink for Sam & Alicia in San Francisco. The bride & groom had the Curry Up Now food truck that I designed at their event. More on the branding and truck design here. Congratulations Sam & Alicia!
Friday December 30th, 2011
My new favorite aisle at the grocery store it the olive oil section. The packaging design lures me in. It’s hard to beat the wine area or chocolate bar area, but lately the olive oil market seems to be getting bigger and bigger. I would love to do more of this kind of work. Specialty food packaging = dream design projects to me. I felt pretty inspired to do some packaging design for a holiday gift this year and incorporate something I love looking at, helicopters! The result was California extra virgin olive oil, Taste Patrol Fine Foods & Findings by Design Womb. We’ll see where the chopper takes me next. I’ve mentioned this before. I love all the different shapes and sizes helicopters come in. Hoping to turn this project into a printmaking project in 2012 for helicopter prints. Keep you posted.
Tuesday November 29th, 2011
This year was our second year of cooking a Thanksgiving Day meal for ourselves. Jean-Pierre handles the turkey (which he orders from Bi-Rite Market) and I usually handle the sides. We had a friend pop over that was in charge of snacks & brussels sprouts so a few things were missing from my photos, but you can enjoy a quick series of 18 dark & dramatic photos of gluten-free/dairy-free coconut crust pumpkin pie, roasted potatoes, homemade cranberry dressing and delicious turkey & fresh turkey gravy (sans wheat). It’s always quite challenging for us to cook a lot of food at once in our kitchen because we lack extra dishes and utensils. It’s the one thing in our house we haven’t really built up yet, so we keep it simple with a few Le Cruset pans, a few store-bought dorky tin pans and the essentials. We don’t even own a salt & pepper shaker believe it or not. On that note, I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving. I am happy to report that after 4 to 5 leftover meals, I am back to my regularly scheduled mexican food and daily health vices.
Wednesday October 26th, 2011
Hail Merry, I love you. I fell in love the minute I tasted the lime tart. I can’t have eggs, dairy or wheat these days, so I was so excited when this actually tasted delicious. They have a web shop with other snacks and treats as well. Yipee! Inner queen? Heck yes. Ask my dad. That’s a nickname he had for me when I lived at home. This couldn’t be any more perfect. I can have my “cake” and eat it too.
Monday October 24th, 2011
Raw oysters! Jean-P didn’t have to “cook” anything this time, but boy did he shuck & shuck again to feed the two of us. Pretty impressive by the end. This was my first time trying oysters, they came from Siren SeaSA. Delicious. For those of you that know me and my past eating habits, even just a few years ago this would have been the unthinkable and unimaginable. I have officially graduated.
Thursday October 6th, 2011
Monday September 26th, 2011
J-Pierre recently signed up for a Siren SeaSA seafood subscription. What a genius little idea. Siren SeaSA offers weekly or bi-weekly fresh local seafood “drops” in the bay area. I highly encourage you to check it out and see what Anna Larsen’s operation is up to. I got the pleasure of meeting her briefly and am completely impressed by her dedication to the adventures of dealing with the local fishermen and getting her products to her customers. She does a lot of it all by herself, including the waking up at the crack of dawn to go pick up the fish and run around town to her pickup posts. Our first “drop” was halibut the week before last. I am a little behind on posting this, but J-Pierre made ginger sesame halibut the first night and oven-roasted heirloom tomatoes and baked halibut the evening to follow. I felt spoiled and that fish was deeee-licious. Second drop comes this weekend, will keep you posted on where that takes us.
Wednesday September 14th, 2011
This recipe for Pumpkin Spice Granola on Baking Bites doesn’t mess around. This time around I used a bit of Stevia in place of the brown sugar, but the original is so so good. I made it once last year and finished the entire batch off in less than 48 hours with J-Pierre so bake with caution. Alright, confession: I actually have a serious problem with carbohydrates and more specifically cereal or breakfast-type bars, but even more I love the ‘pumpkin spice’ time of year. It’s the Michigan girl in me that is day dreaming this time of year about fall cider mill trips for cider & donuts with my best friend Jennifer. Every time I eat a few bites I think about my friends and family back home.