Designist Dream

Oy, so I didn’t make it a Sunday update this week but all in good time. Because essentially, the biggest news to hit the art-and-design-o-sphere comes this week from Comic Con: Israeli comic book artist and illustrator Rutu Modan was just awarded an Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel in 2008 for her work, [...]

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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.
~ Israeli jeweler and [...]

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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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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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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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Photos of Steven Wiltshire’s finished drawing of Jerusalem - including a few words from the artist himself on the experience - have been posted, by yours truly, over at Jerusalemite - The Jerusalem Culture Guide. I’ll be posting at Jerusalemite on art and culture in the Holy City but, don’t worry, dear readers, you’re still [...]

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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 [...]

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From the biblical to the technological - and a lot in between - it’s been a big 60 years. Happy birthday, Israel… and many more.
Look for my post on 60bloggers.com honoring Israel’s achievements over the past 6 decades in the fields of art, fashion, culture and design towards the end of the month.

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