Designist Dream

Hooray! Hooray for everyone – Obama is the US President and there’s a new and incredible sense of hope, optimism and belief that you can do it (or yes, we can do it to paraphrase his empowering and inspiring slogan/ motto/ mantra). I can’t even begin to tell you what a great and moving experience [...]

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Hooray for Election Day in the States! I can’t remember an election day – or even campaign – has been this electrifying for ex-pats abroad. I can only imagine how incredibly exciting things are over there in the US. It’s historic. It’s epic. I think the inspiration is infectious – in fact, it’s getting my [...]

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So as if you haven’t noticed, I’ve been having a hard time getting back into my creative groove for a while now. I can’t explain it really but I’ve got a lot of ideas of things to do (write about, interview, meet, see, sew, volunteer for and more) and not a lot of time to [...]

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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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How ironic that a week long – or two-week long – theme on work got me all out of sorts and out of my regular work/posting schedule!? My apologies to all for the scarcity in exciting Israeli design items to brighten your days. And a promise to start right away with some exciting news, pics [...]

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So I headed over to the Designed in Israel 08 exhibition in Tel Aviv last night and was really floored by some of the works which I’ll be sharing with you throughout the week. There were plenty of yawn items – including many technological advances, which will probably be appearing in some James Bond movie [...]

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Now that the excitement has passed – and the shopping has subsided for a while – I’d love to share with you my experience at Fmarket this past weekend. Many of Designist’s readers have asked what Fmarket is (or was) like – Is it like fashion week? Is it exclusive? Are there runway shows? Does [...]

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For those readers who have asked how to get to the FMarket and don’t speak Hebrew – or read the silly website which itself it not as informative as it should be – here’s some useful info. The FMarket is at the Tel Aviv Fair Grounds – or Ganei Taaroocha in Hebrew. It’s located on [...]

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Well, I just got back from the first night at Tel Aviv’s annual designer fair fmarket and let me tell you – I had such a blast but didn’t buy nearly enough stuff. And apparently, didn’t take any good pics – says the photographer in the family who was babysitting instead. So I’ll be headed [...]

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Well apologies for missing in action but I spent the better half of last week with a cough and cold that knocked me and little Tz out for good. At the first sign of her getting better I conned her way back into a half-day at playgroup and got me some more sleep. But still [...]

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