Designist Dream

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 graduating students from every department they have: design, jewelry, art, fashion and more.

I am very excited to meet up and greet down with the art and design makers in Jerusalem and will be writing up some of the more interesting items for both Designist Dream and Jerusalemite in the coming days. I have a ton of things to catch up on for you all, my beloved DD readers. So thanks for bearing with me these past silent days of summer. And I will get you back a’plenty with interviews, news, products and other great works from Israeli artists and designers making waves around the globe.

And so, you may be wondering, what’s the connection to the Davidka (as photographed above with its designer David Leibowitch)? Well it’s a foreshadowing really: DD is coming back louder, prouder and more powerful than ever. With new enthusaism for and inspiration from the many amazing artists and designers I’ve been coming into contact with since starting this blog - the past few months in particular. Some say the Davidka was Israel’s greastest military design product, winning significant battles across Israel in 1948 by its incredible, fear-generating noise. Not a great weapon but quite the shocking sound. So my plan is for DD to make some bigger noise across the world. And follow up the boom with an even bigger bang: what’s going on here or coming out of here in the fields of art, fashion and design.

And, just as an example, here’s a link to my post on highlights from Israel’s past 6 decades as published in Serbian for Pilotka a widely distributed Serbian daily newspaper. A great honor to be a part of the project from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cool beans to be translated into Serbian. So stay tuned for more great stuff coming your way!