Designist Dream

Well, nothing like a massive Israeli designer sale to get your late summer blues back to brighter colors. Me? I’ll still be very blue though because I’m currently Stateside on a family vacation and will not be able to blow my savings on some great clothes and accessories at this end-of-season’s sale event: fmarket. If [...]

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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 [...]

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Hooray for me! It’s my birthday today! And to celebrate I’m going to celebrate my ideal – and supremely expensive – wish list of my top 5 presents I’d love (you forever if you bought me). I invite you all to enjoy the collection – unless you’re my Mom, in which case you may want [...]

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Weekly Wrap Up: ~ Up-and-coming Israeli designer Kobi Nakav recalls the verticality of trees and natural growth in his square cork hanging plant frames. An ecofriendly solution, it also puts forth the importance of bringing the outdoors in – even in the most urban of spaces. Crossposted to Green Prophet. ~ Expect the Unexpected: Israeli [...]

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Shopping is a sensual experience for me in that I like to touch things on view or on sale. More than just look or pull off the rack, actually playing with the fabric or material gives me a better sense of the object – how it will wear, drape, endure, draw attention or compete with [...]

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Congratulations to Mika and Ben both of whom were inspired by their travels and the people around them – new friends and old. And, also randomly chosen, Mika has won the dragonfly necklace and Ben has won the rhinoceros. Hooray for them! And thanks to everyone else for sharing your innermost experiences, inspirations and creative [...]

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As I mentioned before, I’m really excited about all the comments, but I’m about to up the ante. If the photos of Shelley’s beautiful designs weren’t enough to tempt you to enter this week’s giveaway to win one of two long silver charm necklaces from her company, O-Shan, check out my interview with the artist [...]

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It’s been really exciting to read all the comments and learn more about what’s inspiring my readers. Unfortunately, I think the contest appeared on some giveaway radar because all of a sudden I’m receiving a whole slew of spammy-type generic comments. So I had to resume moderating comments. I’m sorry you won’t be able to [...]

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About a year ago, my mom bought this great looking piece of costume jewelry. I was skeptical at first but it looked fabulous with a black cocktail dress – it was a wreath-like ‘butterfly’ necklace with leaf-shaped opalescent, clear, white, gold and pink-tinted rhinestones. Then again today, a friend at work was wearing a similar [...]

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