Designist Dream

I’m so excited for this Friday! Im going to be participating in a focus group for super cool Israeli designers Peleg Design and Ototo! They are creating some new products and looking for some democracy-style design input from the less designing-savvy and more designy-loving among us natives. I’ve been a fan of both Peleg Design [...]

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 [...]

Israeli design studio Gugu Design brings new graphic and eco-loveliness to your children’s rooms with this ‘Aleph Bet’ Hebrew alphabet poster – perfect for a bedroom and playroom because it’s both a poster and a game. Confused? Think: good things come in recyclable packages! Or check out the video below for explanation: Simply put: this [...]

It’s more than taking time to stop and smell the roses. Now you can curl up with a good book and rest your head on a cushy pillow, right under your favorite flower or plant. Israeli design team Studio Libel bring the outdoors in with these unique pillow planters for your home. Gives new meaning [...]

Israeli architect extraordinaire, Moshe Safdie, has set his creative sails for China’s port city of Chongquin, a historic economic center at the Yangtze and Jialing river junction, and a major manufacturing and transportation hub for all of Southwestern China. Drawing upon the city’s cultural symbolism and historic significance, Safdie’s Chongquin Chaotianmen is a modern interpretation [...]

To know the work of Ezri Tarazi, a leading Israeli academic/ philosopher designer, is to wonder why I even dared credit a dummy for any of it. And yet, here she is: The woman behind the design – literally, ha! You see, Tarazi and helpers created this metal chair by dropping a 100kg (roughly 220 [...]

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Well, who knew the Israeli Community of Designers and the Design Museum in Holon actually had the Israeli Design festivities detailed in English too!? I for one did not. Probably because it’s neither featured on the ICD website, even though they have an English option (which only shows their board and member lists), nor highlighted [...]

Hooray for the Israeli Community of Designers for launching a week-long (alright, ten day long but who’s counting) parade of workshops, exhibitions and special events for and by Israeli designers! Initiative applauded and just in time for Yom Haatzmaot this week too! Not so hooray for their ability to feature this information in Hebrew only [...]

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 [...]