Forget the eco-friendly lightbulbs. Arik Levy’s got a new solution: Teaming up with couture lighting company Saazs and other noted designers, the invention is light-emitting glass plates. Apparently something called “planilum technology”, which sounds like its straight from a work of science fiction or comic book, enables the glass itself to emit light. And cutting-edge [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Design'
Enlightenment by Arik Levy: Our Future’s So Bright, Green and Beautiful
June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Design · Home Decor · Uncategorized
Coffee Beans Are Good for Your Heart: Or So Bezalel Student Designers Start
June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Heart-Beans is a coffee grinder that uses lay-zer-beams to detect your heart rate - the pulse of which fuels the machine. Designed by students at Bezalel as part of a course called ‘Food for Thought’, the coffee grinder doubles as a statement on our culture of consumption; our obsession with objects; and our worshiping of [...]
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Rock ‘N Ride: Boom Box by Israeli Designer Inbal Dayagi
June 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Step 1. Take your old-fashioned boom box in concept, a cutting-edge mp3 player in practice and a kitschy-toy hoola hoop for fun.
Step 2. Mix and modernize with a crazy new design.
Step 3. Get your groove on as you moves on.
The Boom Box by Israeli designer Inbal Dayagi brings new meaning to the portable MP3 player [...]
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60 Years of Israeli Design, Art and Achievement in 6 Highlights from 6 Decades
May 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments
It’s not hard to celebrate 60 years of awe-inspiring accomplishments in the fields of art, architecture, fashion and design. It is hard however, to sum it up or highlight it or point it out for the whole world to see and exclaim together in amazement and joy, “Oh, riiiiiiiight. That was super cool. And totally [...]
Tags: Architecture · Design · Events · Exhibitions · Fashion · Fine Art · Furniture · Home Decor · Prints and Drawings · Sculpture
Play it again, Santiago Calatrava: Jerusalem’s Bridge of Strings
April 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Check out these great pics by Harry over at Jerusalemite, The Jerusalem Culture Guide, of internationally-acclaimed architect Santiago Calatrava’s Bridge of Strings. The photographic angle really shows the intricate steel cables of the bridge which both support the overpass for Israel’s light rail and soar above the city’s skyline weightlessly.
Personally, I love this bridge. [...]
The Kind of Misfit You’ll Want to Make Fit: Ron Arad’s Misfit Couch for Moroso Now Available
April 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
The New York Times recently called it, “A Sofa Dr. Suess Might Have Dreamed Up”. Apartment Therapy thought it resembled a “giant cheese” (in the golden yellow upholstery option). And it’s by no other than Israeli design legend Ron Arad. Labeled as Misfit, Ron Arad breaks couch convention with this six-part sectional, comprised of two [...]
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Israeli Design PSA: Recycle and Recr(e)ate for Your Home with Lool 82
April 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Though I’ve been busy with my mom visiting, I haven’t forgotten the fun at last weekend’s HaSalon Israeli designer home accessories fair in Tel Aviv. And that’s because one of these supergreat industrial crate benches is now in my living room.
Lool 82 is an Israeli design collective that creates funky home accessories from benches [...]
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Body by Design: Israeli Designers Get Physical in Material
April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
I came across these products separately, but together I think they pose some interesting questions about designing the body and for the body. Each work below reflects layers of meaning in the recreation of the body into a particular medium. Each has something to say, perhaps, beyond, hey nice bod.
Take these three tee-shirts by [...]
Tags: Accessories · Ceramics · Design · Home Decor
Bamboo Redux: Israeli Designers (And Daniel Fintzi) Do it. Why Don’t You?
March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
I was very excited to happen upon this Designboom’s feature article on the Israeli design student art exchange and training program in Chinese bamboo production and craft. Back when I first posted about it, I could only find photos of three bamboo toys. Now we can all drool at the super cool Metropolis cityscape set [...]
Tags: Babies and Kids · Design · Home Decor
HaSalon 2008: The Kind of Design Israeli Homes Dream About
March 30th, 2008 · No Comments
“Go, get it yourself,” never sounded as good as when Lior and Tal from Chunt Designs told me that their ‘By the Book” night table will be available for purchase at this weekend’ s HaSalon home furnishings fair in Tel Aviv. Now in it’s second year, HaSalon - meaning the living room, parlor or sitting [...]
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