Designist Dream

I’m so excited for this Friday! Im going to be participating in a focus group for super cool Israeli designers Peleg Design and Ototo! They are creating some new products and looking for some democracy-style design input from the less designing-savvy and more designy-loving among us natives. I’ve been a fan of both Peleg Design [...]

It’s more than taking time to stop and smell the roses. Now you can curl up with a good book and rest your head on a cushy pillow, right under your favorite flower or plant. Israeli design team Studio Libel bring the outdoors in with these unique pillow planters for your home. Gives new meaning [...]

To know the work of Ezri Tarazi, a leading Israeli academic/ philosopher designer, is to wonder why I even dared credit a dummy for any of it. And yet, here she is: The woman behind the design – literally, ha! You see, Tarazi and helpers created this metal chair by dropping a 100kg (roughly 220 [...]

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Well, who knew the Israeli Community of Designers and the Design Museum in Holon actually had the Israeli Design festivities detailed in English too!? I for one did not. Probably because it’s neither featured on the ICD website, even though they have an English option (which only shows their board and member lists), nor highlighted [...]

Hooray for the Israeli Community of Designers for launching a week-long (alright, ten day long but who’s counting) parade of workshops, exhibitions and special events for and by Israeli designers! Initiative applauded and just in time for Yom Haatzmaot this week too! Not so hooray for their ability to feature this information in Hebrew only [...]

A two-legged table?! I know what you’re thinking, “can’t be!?” “why that’s impossible!” “are you outta your mind!?” Aha, but it can; and it’s not; and I am. (But that last part is unrelated). Israeli designers Shay Carmoun and Ben Kilinger, collaborating as StudioVe here in Tel Aviv, have reinterpreted the traditional coffee table relying [...]

Special thanks to Design Milk, design blog gods, for this amazing roundup of the most current, modern and design-y menorahs (or chanukiyot) on the market these days – many available online for international or US shipping. With the first night of Chanukah starting tonight, start modernizing your ancient holiday traditions fast! Happy Chanukah – and [...]

Special thanks to Pascal Perich, over at the Etsy Storque blog, for sending a link to his video interview and feature of the serene and etheral lighting fixtures by Israeli designers Yael Erel and Avner Ben Natan. Having met in high school, Erel and Ben Natan draw their inspiration from architecture, nature and everything in [...]

{by Karen Chernick for Green Prophet} Sustainable design is popping up all over Israel, and we’ve tried to cover as many of these designers as possible. Our survey of ten sustainable Israeli designers who reduce, reuse, and recycle covers tons of green, innovative, and aesthetic projects ranging from rubber tire handbags (that are surprisingly chic) [...]