Designist Dream

A Sunday roundup on Tuesday!? Well it’s never too late to get up-to-date with the headlines. And I bet the image above made you go hmmm? Which is what many Bezalel Graduate of Graphic Arts, like Nir Avigad, aspire to achieve. So check out the links below from the weekly roundup of Israeli artists and [...]

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Well, Jerusalem-based artist and advocate Mike Darnell’s a great place to start with Designist Dream’s new-weekly feature: the Sunday news roundup. So start your week by kicking back with a tasty cup of coffee, a cool summer breeze and some hot-off-the-press links to Israeli artists and designers making headlines across the globe.
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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 [...]

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Fascinating article in Haaretz this week about Miriam Shek, an Israeli arts advocate, who struggles against the stereotypes of the roles of ambassador’s wives, to raise the profile of Israeli art in whatever country - or conversation - she finds herself. From curating large-scale galleries and museums to the walls of her own home, Shek [...]

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You may remember that, a while back, I featured some art, fashion and design work related to the body. Well, Israeli designer Irit Lanciano was kind enough to write me and send me a much better photograph of her series of shirts entitled “Body Containers”. Not only can you see the appendages more clearly but [...]

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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 [...]

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Say it slowly and you’ll get it: de-sign-ist dream. Harry and I came up with the name of this blog on our way in to Jerusalem one morning. And we were stoked. He because it was an uber-witty pun where the Zionist Dream is transformed into a blog on design and aesthetics in the holy [...]

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