Designist Dream

I just came across this art demonstration by missingthem.net which is happening today, January 24th, and was really moved. Missingthem.net is staging an art-inspired protest today at airports around the world calling attention to three missing Israeli soldiers - Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev and Gilad Shalit - who were kidnapped from Israel’s northern border [...]

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Now that the excitement has passed - and the shopping has subsided for a while - I’d love to share with you my experience at Fmarket this past weekend. Many of Designist’s readers have asked what Fmarket is (or was) like - Is it like fashion week? Is it exclusive? Are there runway shows? Does [...]

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For those readers who have asked how to get to the FMarket and don’t speak Hebrew - or read the silly website which itself it not as informative as it should be - here’s some useful info.
The FMarket is at the Tel Aviv Fair Grounds - or Ganei Taaroocha in Hebrew.
It’s located on Rokach [...]

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Today opens the four-day imm cologne international furniture fair and it looks to be an incredible show this year. With a focus on young designers, furnished bedroom retreats (”world of dreams“) and the latest in kitchen design and appliances, I am tempted to book the first plane over there. And that’s not all, the entire [...]

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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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As the Jewish State you don’t get all the Christmas hoopla that you do in the US or UK for example. The highway to Bethlehem is lit up with Christmas lights and there are a few tree-decked areas for our Christian citizens and friends, but overall, the day passes - at work - without much [...]

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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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As I mentioned before, Israel has advanced into the quarter finals of the international street fashion tournament over at Street Clash. Normally, I would turn to you, dear readers, with a plea to vote for Israel well, simply because supporting Israel is cool. But now it turns out, you should really go vote for Israel [...]

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A recent family jaunt to Tel Aviv led us to the city’s current public art project, Global View. More than 100 globes dotted the beautiful Rothschild Boulevard as part of a joint business-art venture that partnered the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), NY Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and London Stock Exchange (LSE) with 100 leading Israeli [...]

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