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When Im Sixty-Four… or Happy Independence Day State of Israel

April 25th, 2012 · No Comments

Loving this year’s national Independence Day or Yom Haatzmaot poster celebrating 64 years. Designed by Shlomit Tsur, a graduate of visual communications at Shenkar, and illustrated by Gustavo Viselner. (Id love to find more information about the artists if anyone has any leads, my searches didnt yield much.) Anyway, the picturesque imagery strikes at the [...]

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Tags: Prints and Drawings

Shop Israel Chanukah Gift Guide: Kitsch meets Contemporary at Barbara Shaw Gifts

December 11th, 2011 · No Comments

Discovering Barbara Shaw’s gift shop on Bezalel Street in Jerusalem was like finding the perfect present pitstop for friends and family in Israel or abroad. With graphics that combine kitchy fun with contemporary abstract, Barbara’s textiles, pottery and glassware offer a wide range of gift giving options for that special man, woman, baby, child, friend, [...]

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Tags: Babies and Kids · Ceramics · Entertaining · Gift Guide · Home Decor · Textiles

Grab a Chair by an Israeli Designer and Read Along with Designboom

July 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment

If you don’t know about Designboom you should not only check out every category on their extensive site, but also sign up for their fascinating, daily or biweekly newsletters featuring thee roundup of today’s newsmakers from around the world in the field of design. Check out today’s example here just for a sample of all [...]

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Tags: Design · Furniture

Introducing the (Amazing) Two Legged Coffee Table by Israeli Designers StudioVe

February 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments

A two-legged table?! I know what you’re thinking, “can’t be!?” “why that’s impossible!” “are you outta your mind!?” Aha, but it can; and it’s not; and I am. (But that last part is unrelated). Israeli designers Shay Carmoun and Ben Kilinger, collaborating as StudioVe here in Tel Aviv, have reinterpreted the traditional coffee table relying [...]

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Tags: Design · Home Decor · Uncategorized

Top Seven Israeli Designers, As Featured on ISRAEL21c

November 21st, 2009 · No Comments

I was psyched that journalist extraordinaire, Karin Kloosterman, turned to me for research help with her article featuring Israel’s leading Israeli designers for a feature article for ISRAEL21c.org. Read the full article reprinted below, or see the full article here alongside other great spotlights on Israeli innovations. Their designs are comfortable, hip and beautiful and [...]

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All About Sustainable Design: New Seminar Starting at the Israeli Design Center in Holon

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments

{by Karen Chernick for Green Prophet} Sustainable design is popping up all over Israel, and we’ve tried to cover as many of these designers as possible. Our survey of ten sustainable Israeli designers who reduce, reuse, and recycle covers tons of green, innovative, and aesthetic projects ranging from rubber tire handbags (that are surprisingly chic) [...]

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Tags: Design · Events

Israeli Designer Superstar Arik Levy Lights my Fire

March 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Taking the outdoors in. Meeting nature with industry. Israeli born, Paris-based designer, and my personal superstar, Arik Levy, has done it again. Revamping the traditional indoors fireplace for a new, modern and abstracted collection for Planika Fires. Stripped down to the basic elements – fire, fuel and protection (albeit not exactly child-proof, but still encased [...]

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Getting Graphic: Israeli Comic Book Artist Gets the Eisner

July 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Fine Art · Prints and Drawings · Uncategorized

Tuesday News Roundup: Israeli Artists and Designers Making Headlines

July 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Sunday News Roundup: Israeli Artists and Designers Making Headlines

July 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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