Fab Café: Fab-ulous and Fab-ricating

Fab Café is so awesomely Japanese. It’s a standard café - you can buy coffee, lattes, muffins, marshmallow lattes, etc - but what it also offers is time on their laser cutter to laser cut a custom design in paper, wood, felt, etc. Anything flat and not super dense. Just bring an Illustrator vector file and you’re good to go! Super cutting edge, ehh? (Get it? Cutting edge? Never mind.)

They also have workshops to make other things. They recently offered a two-day workshop for 15 women - to make 3D chocolates for Valentine’s Day (In Japan, women give gifts on Valentine’s Day, men give gifts on White Day, March 14^th).

During the two-day workshop, these 15 lucky women had 3D scans done of their heads, did some editing to get their heads on a sphere, and then a silicone mold was printed (not poured) with their face on it. Pour some chocolate in the mold and voilà! A very custom bonbon or lollipop for your loved one was made.

Here’s a video of the process.

The men’s workshop for White Day was not just a 3D scan of their heads but full body scans - to make gummimen! Hilarious!

The happy thought: I hope the next time I’m in Tokyo Fab Café will be offering a workshop similar to one of those. Popsicle molds, perhaps?

The ooked out thought: I can’t imagine what would happen if the porn industry got a hold of this.

Thanks for the news bite, Aimée!

(360-degree panorama Snow White book by Yusuke Oono; all images via Fab Café)