Designist Dream

Oy, so I didn’t make it a Sunday update this week but all in good time. Because essentially, the biggest news to hit the art-and-design-o-sphere comes this week from Comic Con: Israeli comic book artist and illustrator Rutu Modan was just awarded an Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel in 2008 for her work, [...]

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A Sunday roundup on Tuesday!? Well it’s never too late to get up-to-date with the headlines. And I bet the image above made you go hmmm? Which is what many Bezalel Graduate of Graphic Arts, like Nir Avigad, aspire to achieve. So check out the links below from the weekly roundup of Israeli artists and [...]

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Well, Jerusalem-based artist and advocate Mike Darnell’s a great place to start with Designist Dream’s new-weekly feature: the Sunday news roundup. So start your week by kicking back with a tasty cup of coffee, a cool summer breeze and some hot-off-the-press links to Israeli artists and designers making headlines across the globe.
~ Israeli jeweler and [...]

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Wow. What happened? Things got so quiet around here. Too quiet, I’m sorry to say. So after about a month of post ideas building and writer’s block overtaking, one special (and delicately put) comment from Jennifer has officially shaken me out of my stupor. That and a hand-delivered invitation to tonight’s Bezalel end-of-year exhibition of [...]

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