Israeli Olive Associations

In an attempt to connect the Hanukkah holiday spirit with design, we found the Olive Chair, created by Israeli designers Adi Tasa and Yoav Avinoam, the perfect choice!
Hannukah…Oil…Olive…get it? :)
The Olive Chair  was created using a molded polyester-based textile which when heated forms the shape. Adi Tasa and Yoav Avinoam designed a basic structured chair but with a very unique three dimensional surface, originating a new olive shaped texture that makes you want to desperately touch, feel and sit in! Source

TLV Fashion Week Web Publicity

The Tel-Aviv Fashion Week received so much publicity we thought we may skip posting about it…But such a historical event cannot be and should not be overlooked. The international fashion week held in Tel-Aviv after 30 years is an accomplishment worthy of celebration! So here is a list of just some of the articles written about the event, read more about it: 

Exposing Tel Aviv Fashion Week – Israelity
On the front row at the inaugural Tel Aviv Fashion Week – Fashion Telagraph 
Italians impressed by Tel Aviv Fashion Week - Jerusalem Post
Tel Aviv Holds Israel’s First Fashion Week in Over 30 Years (PHOTOS) – Ibtimes
Israeli designers attract world attention – Ijn
Maybelline New York sponsors Tel Aviv Fashion Week – The Examiner
Israel Fashion Week hits the runway – Haaretz
Roberto Cavalli Shows Spring 2012 Collection At Tel Aviv Fashion ... - Huffington Post
Designer Cavalli launches Israel's first fashion week in over 30 years - Daily Mail
Roberta Cavalli Showcases Spring 2012 Collection at Tel Aviv ... - Bloginity

Global Sustainability Jam in Tel-Aviv 2!

This weekend a Global Sustainability Jam took place in over 6 continents and 42 cities, including Tel-Aviv, Israel. The jam brought together passionate people in various fields of interest, joining together to brainstorm and create brand-new real-world ideas that can better the planet!

The design-based jam was not about talking it was about doing. Participants bounced ideas off one another and built on whatever bounced back, eventually turning their ideas into concrete designs, objects, projects, and action plans to be further developed in the future. Seems like they also had lots of fun too!
This energetic dedicated weekend brought on some great ideas but most importantly furthered the awareness for more sustainable design, products, ideas, initiatives and creative thinking to better the world we live in!Great initiative, great work guys!

In Tel-Aviv there were about 28 participants working together in 4 different groups. See the output of one creative team and pictures from the TLV jam:

For more pictures and partcipants visit the TLV Sustainabilty Jam facebook page.

The London Design Festival Showcases Israeli Designers

Before The London Design Festival comes to an end, we would like to pay tribute to two leading Israeli born designers presenting at one of the world's most important annual design events: Arik Levy and Eyal Burstein.

Arik Levy, originally from Israel where most of his time was dedicate to surfing and his graphic design studio. In 1988 Levy moved to Europe and in 1991 completed his studies in the Art Center Europe in Switzerland where he gained a distinction in Industrial Design. Levy currently works in Paris with his 20-strong team of designers and graphic artists forming L design. Under the vision of Levy and his associate, Pippo Lionni, the firm also produces brand identities, packaging, signage, exhibition and interior design.

The Molteni Group, one of Italy’s leading furnishings companies, has devoted its Covent Garden Flagship Store in the London Design Festival, to Arik Levy. The design collaboration between Molteni&C and Levy, called “in power10”,  takes inspiration from the film produced by designers Charles and Ray Eames in 1968, which focuses on the relative scale of the universe in factors of 10, from minute to infinite.

Eyal Burstein, an Israeli, Berlin-based product designer attended the London College of Printing in London in 2001–2004 and the Royal College of Arts in London from 2004-2006.  In 2007 Burstein founded Beta Tank, a Berlin-based conceptual product design practice which creates objects based on cross-disciplinary research that explores new technologies and social commentary. Read the full interview with Eyal Burstein.  

Beta Tank is showcasing the “Scaffolding Brut” in the London Design Festival Tunnel entrance. The installation presents a variety of porcelain scaffolding, focusing on the artistic medium of their aesthetic structure and form, while posing the question "If scaffolding systems are so impressive without design specifications, how utterly magnificent could they become if the need for beauty was attributed to construction?" 

If you’ve visited The London Design Festival this year, we’d love to hear about your first hand experience! 

For more information, visit The London Design Festival site here.