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 'What Women Make' project, -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged africa, barcelona, bracelet, cans, food, mali, recycling, straw baskets, tin cans, watering cans, women, woven rug on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I made a new friend from Mali here in Barcelona. Just around the corner from the church he has a store in bright yellow with:
handmade watering cans of recycled tins
plastic woven rugs in all sizes and colors
a cloth patchwork map of Africa sewn on a pillowcase
huge colorful straw baskets
wire mobiles
and best of all, these [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged 'What Women Make' project, feminist, ghana, ghanaian, girlonthestreet, phyllis taylor, sika, sustainable, whatwomenmake, women on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“All garments are produced in Ghana by highly skilled tailors and seamstresses. The highest standards in garment production is an integral part of Sika’s mission. We work very closely with local traders and manufacturers to produce quality garments for the international market. By generating regular income for those involved, we are able to give back [...]
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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 [...]
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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 Uncategorized, tagged -girl on the street, african-american, america, americans, artistic license films, ask not what your country can do for you but what you c, barack, chauncey, chaunceyzalkin, fast food, filmmakers, flying confessions of a free woman, free gifts, girlonthestreet, inspiration, inspirational, jennifer fox, jfk, john f kennedy, laziness, no free lunch, Obama, presents, santa claus, sept 5, september 5, september fifth, woman, women, womens orgs, zalkin on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I should have more to say about this but I haven’t seen the documentary yet. I heard about it about a year ago and it drifted in and straight out of my awareness. It’s now featured on RottenTomatoes.com at 74% so I thought it would be worth noting. I want to [...]
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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 babies, baby, being a mom, child, childless, children, custody, dad, dads, daughter, family, father, fatherhood, fathers, feminism, first wave feminism, parenthood, son, woman, women on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I started to create a video documentary of sorts interviewing women around the world asking them why they were choosing to marry later and have children later — and I only got so far as a few furniture makers in Italy during the 2007 Salone del Mobile but their English was so rudimentary that it [...]
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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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‘Untouchables’ Enjoy a Night of Fashion
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asia, bitai, branding, brands, buddhism, chanoyu, dry gardens, emaki, geisha, genji, haiku, heian, ikebana, isshin, japan, japanese, japonica, japonism, kabuki, kami, kano, kimono, kyoto, luxury, noh, origami, samurai, sho, sumi-e, tea, tenryu-ji, Tokyo, trends, ukiyo-e, utagawa, west, woman, women on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
LOOKING to better understand perceptions and impressions of Japan, the Japanese, Japonism, Japonica, all related Japan culture – in the west.
There is frequent buzz about Japan’s influence on the youth market – manga – anime – gaming – technology – harajuku girls – those vending machines – j-horror – j-pop – etc.
Im looking to investigate [...]
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I’m taking a quick jaunt into a sober tone but I thought this Sexual Abuse campaign warranted a look. It is the most affecting and illustrative ad I’ve seen on the topic. I can imagine this is what it might feel like to be trapped in the person who has endured, is enduring sexual abuse.
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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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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged advertising, affirmative action, american, bias, boomers, bush, divisive, early feminists, election, equality, feminism, gender, Hilary, hillary, houston, matriarch, michelle, misogyny, myopia, neo-feminist, o.j. simpson, Obama, old boy network, patriot, polemics, political, politics, power suits, reagan, sisters of 77, slutty, woman, women on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
we are not asking permission from some great Uncle Sam like authority to be who we are or to have power.
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Posted in -Tenisha Anderson, Contributors, tagged anderson, barack, candidates, chicago, clinton, color, democrat, employment, free, gender, girl, graduate studies, international, london, magazines, michele, Obama, papierdoll, publishing, shift, tenisha, unemployment, woman, women on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been back from my studies in London for about 6 months now (returned to the good ole U S of A in November 2007) and I’m torn between whether I miss London or not and whether I am happy to be back in Chicago or not. Thus my life story…indecisive as hell. [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged advertising, art, childhood, children, consumer, daughters, development, discovery, global, hair, highlights, human development, kid, kids, learning, marketers, marketing, mindset, mothers, muscle, myspace, process, rushing childhood, salon, Social Networks, strategy, teen, tween, women on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This article talks about a trend in highlights and other hair salon treatments for kids as young as six and usually in the ten to twelve year range. The first time my now thirteen year old sister got highlights I really laid in on her. I said she was going to ruin her hair [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged apparel, art, ceramics, collage, contest, craft, create, creative, designer, designers, film, furniture, gallerist, gallery, illustrate, industrial, knit, make, paint, weld, woman, women on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I want to see your work.
sculptors
illustrators
furniture designers
industrial designers
web designers
glass blowers
welders
woodworkers
ceramicists
candle-makers
photographers
knitters
quilters
painters
collage artists
zine publishers
makers of short films
garments designers
jewelry designers (no bead stringer togetherers)
makers of objets d’art
or anything else.
Please send it to me at chauncey (at) girlonthestreet.com
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