Designist Dream

I’m not sure how Batsheva (above left) and Adam and Eve (above right) would feel about their having been reimagined within a 21st century digital Jerusalem – but Israeli artist and activist Mike Darnell certainly makes you wonder. His exhibition of these and other Biblical portraits are part of his “Digital Zion” exhibition that opens [...]

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In honor of the new year, I’d like to open Designist’s 2008 posts with something that I’ve been waiting to write up since last September. I first read about the Priority Boxes global art project by artist Franck de Las Mercedes on Art News Blog and was quickly drawn in. Franck creates art works in [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 – [...]

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All eight postings (that is a total of 32 gifts!) of the Hanukkah gift guide can be found here for your convenience. Or alternately you can find each day listed here: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fdesignistdream.com%2F2007%2F12%2F06%2Fcomplete-hanukkah-gift-guide%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Complete+Hanukkah+Gift+Guide’; addthis_pub = [...]

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Well Hanukkah’s finally here and the Gift Guide is officially reaching its final day of amazing Israeli design gift ideas. As a reminder for the non-Hanukkah-observing readers, these gifts will also make someone happy this Christmas! Here’s to wishing you and your families a wonderful holiday season. And now for the last time in 2007, [...]

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Well, Hanukkah is almost here and I think I’ve both lost count and let life get a bit in the way, so just to finish off my 8-day gift guide extravaganza, I think I’ll take some artistic license and feature the final Day 8 ideas during the holiday. That way, those of you who are [...]

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Five days left until Hanukkah and four amazing ideas for your gift giving pleasure: (clockwise, from top left) If your man is anything like mine, then he likes his products. A lot. My only complaint – and believe me sharing an exfoliator with your husband is not necessarily a bad thing – is that the [...]

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Well a two week visit to the States traded blogging time for fun with family and friends. One of the highlights of our NY trip was a visit to the American Folk Art Museum to see the exhibition “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: From the Synagogue to the Carousel”. With an amazing array of artwork [...]

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