| Student Break | Bezalel Academy | Waste of time |
Clocks are objects measuring time. This Thursday, TALIN’S Gallery will display a serie of clocks from the graduates of the Jewelry and Fashion Department of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Each graduate re-assembled the clock by his or hers interpretation, challenging the way time is conceived and displayed. Here is a sneak preview, I hope you will like it as much as I do. |
| Student Break | Dana Arish | Once upon a stone |
| Dana is a 2008 Graduate of the Jewelry Design Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Dana created a series of slate jewelry pieces integrating precious metals. She says that her creation process is accompanied by the knowledge that slate can amaze, split and shatter. There is a tense dialog between her personal expression in jewelry design and the natural presence of the raw material. You can get in touch with Dana here: danaarish {at} gmail {dot} com |
| Exhibition Break | Casa 09 Tel Aviv | Created from Product |
| Next week you will be able to visit “Created from Product”. An exhibition that displays the work of Israeli designers which deals with the daily difficulty of producing ideas commercially. The design process becomes a finished product: a clothespin, a plastic bag or a metal ladle, the raw material produced a new product, fresh and intriguing. The curator of the exhibition is the talented Iris Zohar. Thanks to Iris you can have a sneak preview: Monkey Business | Raviv Lifshitz | Studio Junktion | Studio Groovy |
| Student Break | Esteelee Neufeld | Dream Bubble |
| Esteelee is a 2008 Graduate of the Jewelry Design Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. She developed a new material combining sewing threads and polymers. As Esteelee says the peices feel like a dream bubble that you can wear. |
| Student Break | Maayan Kanyas | Industrial Nature |
| Maayan is another talented 2009 Graduate of the Jewelry Design Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. In Maayan’s “Industrial Nature” there is constant dialogue between technological advance and nature, concerning natures part in the developing world. You can get in touch with Maayan here: morenamaayan {at} hotmail {dot} com |
| Efrat Gommeh | Ceramic Genius |
| I just adore Efrat’s “Vanilla” take on the traditional paper cupcakes and I love her brilliant “Lock Cup” concept. A cup that is designed for people who share workplace facilities such as a kitchen. The cup has a hole which prevents people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his shaped key to close the hole, pour the coffee and enjoy the drink. What a startup! BTW “Take it easy” and “Surprise!” were Featured at designboom “Handled with care exhibition. www.gommeh.com |
| METALACE | The Art of Lace on Metal |
| Such an unique concept! Talila Abraham, the designer, says that “the designs reflect the desire to preserve the special and personal touch that was an integral part of all handcrafted objects historically”. I couldn’t agree more! www.metalaceart.com |
| Student Break | Noga Manor | TENSILE |
| Noga is a 2009 Graduate of the Industrial Design Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Noga designed lighting fixtures that combine special plastic elements manufactured using technology she developed. “I developed a unique method of processing polymers which creates plastic objects that are, in form, truly organic. In the process there is a delicate balance between control and chaos, and as in nature no two objects are identical.” www.nogamanor.com |
| Ronit Baranga | Theatrical, Creepy, Surprising |
| I have to say that Ronit’s work is dramatic, odd, hilarious, touching, fascinating all at once. www.ronitbaranga.com |
| Atara de Lange | Creating Haute Couture of Rubber Threads |
| I just love Atara’s use of rubber! I appreciate it when a designer work with special materials. Check Atara’s flickr page for so much more… www.ataradl.com |
| Oded Ezer | My favorite typographer ever! |
| Oded Ezer is my idol! He is a world-known Israeli typographer and type designer. His book Oded Ezer: The Typographers Guide to the Galaxy is on my wish list. You can read more about the book at the design:related inspiring web site. |
| Dror Benshetrit | Urban Cast Away | Ceramic Jewelry |
| As I wrote before I’m a seashell addict so when I saw Dror Benshetrit 2006 handmade ceramic sculptures and jewelry pieces called Urban Cast-Aways I knew this is the right place to show them… Dror developed a unique organic look of the jewelries by dipping scraps of fake fur into a ceramic paste and then firing the resulting shapes. The pieces look like a flowing coral, or perhaps spilled milk caught mid-fall. I wish I could have one! You can take a look at Dror Benshetrits studio space in midtown Manhattan here. |
| Student Break | Shiri Hachmov | My Skin |
| When I looked for some exiting projects I visited the Jewelry Design Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design website and there I came across Shiri’s 2008 graduate project. WOW! The pieces were made of various materials such as parts of animal intestines, latex and silver. Shiri says that The project was inspired by the convention of the human body as a shell to achieve the ideal of beauty in society. You can get in touch with Shiri here: shiri.haha {at} gmail {dot} com> |
| Student Break | Sharon Vaizer | FUN ta sea |
| Sharon is a 2009 Graduate of the Jewelry Design Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Sharon’s work is influenced by the marine environment, which is characterized by incessant motion, and amorphous shapes that emerge from a multitude of moving elements and coalesce into a single whole. I just love the way she used cheap and ready made materials and transformed those basic objects into precious ones. www.sharonvaizer.com |
| Student Break | Gili Rozin | Music Box |
| Gili is another 2009 Graduate of the Jewelry Design Department of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Gili created a series of jewels, objects, that encapsulate time and emotion, tones and rhythm… The objects made of mostly paper, plastic and silver mixed techniques. You can get in touch with Gili here: miss_gili {at} hotmail {dot} com |
