Patrizia Moroso, creative director of the Italian design company, Moroso, created an homage to African design at Salone del Mobile 2009 and then again at ICFF, collaborating with a slew of star designers including Ayse Birsel & Bibi Seck and Patricia Urquiola. The work is nothing short of phenomenal.
Me-Design magazine says: “2009 looks set [...]
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WHAT WOMEN ARE MAKING: AFRICA VIA ITALY
Posted in 'What Women Make' project, -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged -girl on the street, africa, artisans, ayse birsel, craft, craftsmanship, design, female, girlonthestreet, girls, italy, leadership, mafrique, memagazine, milan, milano, moroso, newdesign, oldmaterials, patiche, patricial urquiola, PatriciaUrquiola, tradition, what women make, whatwomenmake, women, yatzer.com on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Doll Parts
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged Artists, barbie, bunnies, chauncey, craftsmanship, cutsey, deers, etsy, girl, girlonthestreet, girls, girly, jewelry, margaux lange, myspace, patches, patchwork, plastic, reindeer, woman, zalkin on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the best thing I found while hunting today. There sure is a lot of useless crap and repeat offenders out there. How many deer and bunny patches can one sew onto a floral bag before noticing that this has been done, done, donedonedonedonedone. On the other hand, this Barbie extracted and abstracted jewelry [...]
GOTS does the London Design Festival
Posted in -Peter Crosby, Contributors, tagged abigail borg, amy aardvark, artisanal, artisans, arts, ashley thomas, awards, busking, camron pr, camron.co.uk, caroline swift, ceramics, charlotte tangye, color, corridors, crafts, craftsmanship, design, elena fleury-rojo, elinor andersson, emma lacey, female, fian andrews, francesca sighori, francesca signori, glass, heather gillespie, heidi parsons, holly crewe, ikukp iwamoto, il jung lee, industrial design, jade barnes-richardson, jewelry, jo davies, julie kouamo, laura berens, laura jayne strand, leigh-ann nicholls, leigh-ann nichols, lighting, liz cullen, london, marie retpen, michelle mason, murals, music, nina simone, petercrosby.wordpress.com, product design, sandy segal, sarah colson, sarah potter, sena gu and lucinda barnes, surface design, suzy masterson, sylvie fuller, textile, winners, women, www.londondesignfestival.com on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A walk through some of our favorite female designers at the London Design Festival September 2008.
In my endless search for new insights from female artists around the world …
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged art, artisan, Artists, asia, asian, avant-garde, bejing, China, communist, crafts, craftsmanship, Cui Xiuwen, cultural, cut, cutter, dye, expression, female, girlonthestreet, global, hidden, japan, japonism, kyoto, Li Shurui, Li Xianting, Lin Tianmiao, Lu Qing, men, National Gallery of Art, new wave, non-fiction, olympics, printing, prints, recognition, recognized, representative, self-possessed, stories, story, subversive, talent, truth, unrecognized, women, workshop, Xiao Lu, Xing Danwen, Yin Xuizhen on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from Japan where I had some very special and unique experiences – for one, meeting with a man who, for Issey Miyake and for himself, experiments with dying processes employing root vegetable dyes and charcoal, coffee, various indigenous plants, layering color on pre-worn and original fabrics to varied effect working [...]
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