Designist Dream

As you may recall, I love my Gitta bag diaper bag. Love it, love it, love it. The color, the design, the fabric, the inside organization. I sing its praises practically every day, as I sling what’s become more my bag than Tz’s diaper bag over my shoulder and head down Israel’s busy streets. And [...]

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Well apologies for missing in action but I spent the better half of last week with a cough and cold that knocked me and little Tz out for good. At the first sign of her getting better I conned her way back into a half-day at playgroup and got me some more sleep. But still [...]

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Designist shouts out a big welcome to the Middle Eastern blogging block to new eco-informed blog Green Prophet by blogger Karin Kloosterman. Karin is a contributor to blogs Treehugger and Carbon Copy and a writer for the Jerusalem Post. She also seems to have her ear to the ground because her posts are incredibly informed [...]

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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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Many of you have been asking about Israeli fashion, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to summarize or explain, so hopefully an alternating fashion-focused Friday posting (with general design Friday photos) will help start to formulate some sort of general picture. The only problem will be that many of the designers seen on [...]

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Pretentious Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, shows its how out of touch it is with contemporary cultural trends but introducing a new feature: an interview with a real-life person on the street about what he or she is wearing and why. Novel idea? Not really. And so poorly conducted in this article that the nature of the [...]

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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

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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 tonight’s the first night! So if you haven’t ordered or purchased your Hanukkah gifts yet this year, you’ve got a full eight days to make it happen! And as the holiday gift guide winds to a close, above are four more incredible gift ideas and four more chances to show your love for Israel [...]

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Six days left until Hanukkah and four incredible ideas for your gift giving pleasure:
(clockwise, from top left)
Does your man always seem to be forgetting something at home? Or worse, locking himself out of the house on a frequent to regular basis? If so, then Israeli designers Monkey Business have the solution you need: the door [...]

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