Comet-shaped 3D-printed pasta – Photos by Artisia.

Food design. Parma-based brand Artisia explores new rituals of conviviality around the table through 3D-printed pasta designed to surprise, delight, and invite playful participation. For the festive season, the brand introduces edible shapes in the form of Christmas trees, comets, and Pandorino, a miniature take on Italy’s traditional Christmas pudding. With a little filling and decoration, home cooks can now stage Michelin-star theatrics at their own table.

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Pandorino.

Rooted in Italian excellence yet driven by experimentation, the brand is owned by Barilla and operates at the forefront of food technology within national cuisine. “Of course, we do not want to tackle Italy’s cultural, gastronomic heritage,” Artisia marketing manager, Valentina Parravicini, told Archipanic. “We invite you to start from there and think out of the box. It’s time to play and experiment, it’s time to unlock new paths and get creative.”

Green Vortipa.

That spirit of experimentation begins with simple, honest ingredients and an advanced design process. The pasta dough is handmade from semolina obtained from selected wheat and water, preserving familiar textures and flavours. At the same time, an in-house design team parametrically develops unexpected shapes, conceived specifically for three-dimensional expression.

These digital designs meet craftsmanship through a specially engineered 3D-printing machine. Fresh dough is sprayed and layered into delicate filaments, slowly composing pieces impossible to achieve by hand or conventional industrial production. The result is pasta that looks sculptural yet behaves reliably in the kitchen.

Xmas.

Collaboration plays a central role in shaping this approach. “We constantly develop new shapes and also collaborate with top chefs, always making sure that the outcomes keep the texture, flavour, and quality of traditional handmade Italian pasta,” Artisia head-pasta designer Antonio Gagliardi told Archipanic.

The Artisia Christmas collection expands this dialogue between design and food with stars, comets, Christmas trees, and basket-shaped forms for gourmet cupcakes. Pandorino reimagines Italy’s soft, spongy Christmas bread-cake as petite pasta, while Vortipa becomes a three-dimensional parametric Christmas tree. Spaghetto 3D appears as a red spaghetti nest, and Lasagna 3D arrives in green, all coloured using preservative-free natural food colouring.

Spaghetto 3D.

How to cook it? You just have to boil the pieces in salt or sugar for a 8-to11 minutes as indicated on the instructions and make sure to drain well the water that could remain inside. “Then, you can follow the recipes on our website or go mad and create your own one,” Adds Valentina Parravicini.

So far Artisia has collaborated with Italy’s leading chefs, including Michelin-starred Davide Oldani and Matias Perdomo. The brand made its mark during Milan Design Week with the 5Vie Design District, winning over food lovers nationally and internationally. Earlier this year, it was also nominated for the Compasso d’Oro, Italy’s most influential industrial design award.

Spaghetto 3D in red.

“Artisia is a new way to enjoy pasta,” concludes Valentina Parravicini. “It doesn’t challenge tradition, it expands new ways of staying together – as a starter, as an aperitif finger food and even as a dessert. We like to think of it as an open-source tool to create new rituals of conviviality.”

• All photos are by Artisia.