I was asked the question. I started to write an off the cuff list. Here it is:
* Crowdsourcing the solution to function and design questions.
* The intelligent craftsperson is the visual world’s thought leader.
* A challenge to the primacy of traditional currency – a resurgence and innovation in barter.
* The most useful and most simple [...]
Posts Tagged ‘design’
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 »
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 [...]
To open a store, or to not open a store, exactly.
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged chauncey, core 77, core77, craft, design, fast fashion, forever 21, forever21, girlonthestreet, h&m, milan, milano, Moustache, salone, topshop, www.moustache.fr, zalkin, zara on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That is the question.
And in my research of exactly how to tailor make my next endeavour to fit
my passions and the times, I found this think piece at Core77 entitled Selling the Future: Design and the Financial Crisis that I think is worth a gander.
Quotes include:
“Make less. Make it better. Focus on craft.”
“Examine the thing [...]
obama nesting dolls
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged art, collage, craft, crafts, design, etsy, girlonthestreet, girls, knit, nesting dolls, Obama, politics, quilt, woman, women on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I like the idea of nesting dolls as a metaphor for personality and layers of personal and social significance of an individual or an idea or both. What should you choose as the outer layer? What the public sees first would be the obvious choice, but maybe its the biggest thing about the person, the [...]
Hero
Posted in -Alabama Chanin, Contributors, tagged - Natalie Chanin, -Alabama Chanin, activist, alice waters, alternative, america, american, art, children, color purple, community, country, craft, design, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, fabric, family, fashion, female, food, garden, health, hero, heroes, leader, mentor, montessori, mother, progressive, progressive education, project alabama, sewing, south, sustainability, textiles, woman, women on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chauncey was diligent in asking me to post. She just didn’t give up. I almost dreaded when her next email would come as I really did not know what I wanted to say with my “personal” voice. It seems that my “Alabama Chanin” voice has become my personal voice or, perhaps, that [...]
Designing Women
Posted in -Jessie Whipple Vickery and Claudia Brown, Contributors, tagged design, women, Portland, kara walker, lotte reiniger, bloomsbury, woolf, patterns, zandra rhodes, vanessa bell, pattern people, Oregon, Jessie Whipple Vickery, Claudia Brown, textiles, apparel, interiors on March 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hello! Claudia Brown and I make up the Portland-based surface design studio Pattern People. We opened up shop fairly recently after many wonderful years working in-house for clients. We’re paying a visit to the Girl on the street blog to share a list of a few of our favorite influential women in the [...]
Mind Tag – You’re It
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged China, City, Createur, design, Ethnography, France, Hilary, Hong Kong, Ideo, India, Innovation, MBA, new york, Obama, Paris, Portland, Recession, Shanghai, Spain, Tokyo, USA on February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My mind goes through so much subject matter with all that’s going on. My more precise thinking disappears before I can get my fingers to march.
Flit flit go the pages..
Flit flit the remarkable sentiment Obama unearthed deep in America’s heartland on Super Tuesday, flit flit Recession panic circling the globe showing how much the [...]
Article I wrote for Terrace Magazine, a new magazine by Trace
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged design, furniture fair, girlonthestreet, milan, milano, salon de mobile, style, trend, trends on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s on the topic of the Design Moment and it’s published in this first issue of Terrace by the founders of the brilliant and inimitable Trace. Pick it up at your local (better) newsstand. By the way, that’s me with the hat in the lower center square.
