Designist Dream

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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“The Human Camera” has landed in Jerusalem. Or at least, he has circled above it and surveyed our holy streets. Sounds like something straight out of Marvel comics, but this is real life. A real man. An accomplished artist. And an extraordinary talent – or, dare I say, power. Internationally renown British cityscape illustrator Stephen [...]

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Check out these great pics by Harry over at Jerusalemite, The Jerusalem Culture Guide, of internationally-acclaimed architect Santiago Calatrava’s Bridge of Strings. The photographic angle really shows the intricate steel cables of the bridge which both support the overpass for Israel’s light rail and soar above the city’s skyline weightlessly. Personally, I love this bridge. [...]

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I’m not sure how Batsheva (above left) and Adam and Eve (above right) would feel about their having been reimagined within a 21st century digital Jerusalem – but Israeli artist and activist Mike Darnell certainly makes you wonder. His exhibition of these and other Biblical portraits are part of his “Digital Zion” exhibition that opens [...]

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