Talented Young Artist Paints with Used Coffee Grounds
21-year-old Vincent Francisco Navarro, from Baguio City, Philippines, is an emerging visual artist who uses ground coffee as the main medium of his art. He collects used coffee grounds and recycles them as paint, thus giving the waste product new value and purpose through aesthetics. The city of Baguio produces around 300 tons of garbage every […]
Ultimate Latte Art: Taiwanese Cafe Prints Your Portrait on a Cup of Coffee
If you’ve ever wanted to drink your own face, now’s your chance. Taiwanese cafe chain, Let’s Cafe, uses a special latte printer that creates portraits of customers directly on their delicious caffeinated drinks. Let’s Cafe is a chain of small kiosks offering “fast but good coffee” to shoppers on the go all around Taiwan. Faced […]
Your Money Is No Good Here – Australian Cafe Invites Customers to Pay for Coffee with Kisses
Metro St. James, a French-themed cafe in Sydney, Australia, has been open for only three months but it’s gaining popularity fast thanks to an ingenious promotional offer that allows customers to pay for their coffee with kisses. It’s no joke. During the month of June, people who choose to drink their coffee at Metro St. […]
The Drinkable Masterpieces of a Japanese Anime Latte Artist
If you’re a fan of coffee and Japanese anime, you’re going to love these amazingly detailed latte portraits of famous Japanese cartoon characters. They are the creations of Twitter user, Sugi, who only started doing latte art a year ago. I’m a big fan of coffee art, whether it’s executed directly on a cup of […]
Modern Espressionist Creates Amazing Latte Portraits
New York City barista Mike Breach uses a toothpick as a brush to create beautiful portraits into his tasty lattes. From Albert Einstein to rapper Jay Z, it seems like there’s no face this self-proclaimed “espressionist” can’t draw on coffee. Today Mike Breach is well-known coffee artist, with a big following on social sharing sites […]
Self-Taught Amateur Artist Paints with Ground Coffee and a Pinch of Sand
Alexander Wald works as a plumber in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, but in his spare time he likes to exercise his artistic talents by painting with unusual mediums like ground coffee and sand. Painting with coffee is not exactly unheard of. Artists like Karen Eland and Steven Mikel have been doing it for years, […]
World’s Most Expensive Coffee Is Made from Elephant Dung
You probably didn’t know this, but the world’s most expensive coffee is pretty crappy, literally. Black Ivory coffee is made from beans eaten and digested by Thai elephants, and is priced at $1,100 per kilogram. Enjoy! I knew elephants in Thailand were good at painting, but I didn’t know they also make great coffee. The rare Black […]
Awesome Mosaic Is Made of Over 1 Million Coffee Beans
Measuring nearly 30 square meters, The Awakening mosaic recently unveiled in Gorky Park, Moscow, set a new world record for the largest coffee bean mosaic. It’s not very often that you get to see artworks as impressive as the one created by Russian artist Arkadi Kim. He and his team spent around two weeks working […]
6 Talented Artists Who Paint with Coffee
We’ve done several stories of artists painting with mediums like wine and coffee. Coffee paintings in particular, convey the rich brown tones associated with the beverage, which leads to the creation of unique, very beautiful images. So brew yourself a cup of your favorite coffee and join us as we take you through the works […]
Mind-Blowing Portrait Created from Thousands of Coffee Stains
Just weeks after she took the Internet by storm with her incredible portrait of Yao Ming, created only with a basketball and red paint, Malaysian artist Hong Yi strikes again, this time with a realistic rendition of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou made with coffee stains. The young artist begins her unusual creative process by taking […]
Designers Recreate Double Coffee Logo from Coffee
Latvian coffee shop chain, Double Coffee, celebrated the opening of its second venue in Moscow, Russia, by creating a giant mosaic of its logo, from cups of coffee. The event took place on June 18, on Old Arbat Street, in Moscow, where a group of designers armed with clipboards started arranging plastic cups of coffee […]
Car-puccino – The Coffee-Powered Car
A team of wacky scientists from BBC1’s “Bang Goes the Theory” TV show, have converted a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco into a coffee-powered car, nicknamed Car-puccino. As revolutionary as this concept sounds, it’s more of a fun project than a cost-efficient one. The idea behind Car-puccino is relatively simple: coffee, like wood or coal, has traces […]