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 [...]
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Posted in 'What Women Make' project, -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged 'What Women Make' project, africa, aid, bambara, barcelona, casa de mali, crafts, dye, empowerment, fabric, female, feminism, feminist, femme, girlonthestreet, helping, indigo, kayes, learning, loom, mali, musodanbe, nobel peace prize, plastic bags, recycling, sewing, skills, soap making, sustainable, tourism, weaving, west africa, whatwomenmake, woman, women, yetaaso on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How I went to a Mali culture and design expo and ended up befriending and creating a blog for an inspiring and charitable design co-op from Mali two days later in my apartment. Hugs all around.
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged Artists, bare feet, blood, body, body parts, breast, bruce springsteen, designer, designers, feet, female, footprint, girl, girlonthestreet, h&m, intimacy, israel, israeli, jewish, kroll, language, liron, liron kroll, menstruation, negative space, period, photocopy, preganancy test, private, pubic, scanner art, statistics, tummy, underwear, video art, woman, women on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Israeli artist, Liron Kroll, tells the true story of being a woman through an intimate relationship with her scanner juxtaposed with the cold numbers that don’t quite cut it.
Liron Kroll, Israel
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged -girl on the street, -Peter Crosby, aesthetics, america, americans, anxiety, art, Artists, barcelona, brand worship, business, chain stores, chauncey, couples, crafts, design, dreams, elections, entrepreneurship, europe, expatriot, expats, fairs, female, France, frieze, galleries, girlonthestreet, girls, high street, hype, london, london design week, moving, new york, Obama, Paris, petercrosby, publishing, Spain, stores, travel, trend, trend reports, trends, woman, women, women in business, womeninbusiness, www.friezeartfair.com, www.girlonthestreet.com, www.londondesignfestival.com, zalkin on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By December 1st, my boyfriend and I will have transplanted ourselves from Paris (me) and London (he) to a cozy 45 square meter flat in Barcelona. I’ve had a tendency through the years to disclose my flights of fancy in ill-conceived rushes of enthusiasm only to later regret it. As we all know, sometimes visions [...]
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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.
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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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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged account planning, ad age, advertising, african-american, black, capitalism, communications, consumer, consumers, female, gender, girlonthestreet, goods, hip hop, male, marketing, markets, middle class, mindset, moses foster, nuances, rap, research, services, strategy, white, women on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What ‘market’ are you in?
If you think you’re not a market, but an individual with twists and turns, inconsistencies and nuances, think again, because the marketers are coming straight for you, tracking devices in hand.
You know that, though right? You know you’re being marketed to and for the most part, eat it right up. Give [...]
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