Designist Dream

Awesome Israeli design studio Reddish plays with the ideas of surface, texture, decoration and nature in household objects ranging from tables to lighting to illustrations. The incredibly clever Yakuza wooden table above combines tattoo decoration on a wooden table, the idea? In its design, the table is treated as a living body, receiving its character [...]

Designist shouts out a big welcome to the Middle Eastern blogging block to new eco-informed blog Green Prophet by blogger Karin Kloosterman. Karin is a contributor to blogs Treehugger and Carbon Copy and a writer for the Jerusalem Post. She also seems to have her ear to the ground because her posts are incredibly informed [...]

As the Jewish State you don’t get all the Christmas hoopla that you do in the US or UK for example. The highway to Bethlehem is lit up with Christmas lights and there are a few tree-decked areas for our Christian citizens and friends, but overall, the day passes – at work – without much [...]

We did it! ilook Israeli street fashion blog has won the Streetclash international street fashion tournament! In the amount of time it takes four fashion trends to come and go, Tel Aviv’s finest took on the academic boho’s of Vilnius, the retro hipsters of Minneapolis and the (Eastern) Euro trendy of Talinn and won by [...]

I love urban renewal/ development projects that utilize art and culture. And lord knows, Israel’s Southern region could use a boost of tourism these days. Below two new sites down South (or at least South of where I live) for seeing Israeli art that don’t appear in your guidebooks: You’re going to have to start [...]

About a year ago, my mom bought this great looking piece of costume jewelry. I was skeptical at first but it looked fabulous with a black cocktail dress – it was a wreath-like ‘butterfly’ necklace with leaf-shaped opalescent, clear, white, gold and pink-tinted rhinestones. Then again today, a friend at work was wearing a similar [...]

While I don’t consider myself a jet setter, a family fun-filled affair has me visiting NY for all of 36 hours. So while I’m drinking my coffee and watching the snow melt off the traffic on Broadway, I thought of the millions of other transplanted Israelis who make their way to NY every year – [...]

Many of you have been asking about Israeli fashion, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to summarize or explain, so hopefully an alternating fashion-focused Friday posting (with general design Friday photos) will help start to formulate some sort of general picture. The only problem will be that many of the designers seen on [...]

I scored big at the office this week. In the spirit of Hanukkah, my cool coworker friend arranged for a small party complete with a round of The Dwarf and The Giant (HaGamad v’HaAnak) – or Secret Santa for the rest of the world. She then proceeded to (pretty much) arrange who would get to [...]

I’m really in the mood for some solid furniture posting. Accessories, toys, fashion – it’s all well and good. But I’m jonesing for some big-ticket furniture/ design eye candy. Couches, end tables, lighting, all set up for the discerning eye in a showroom. But my choices are somewhat limited it seems. And I’m stuck with [...]