*lead photo: Jessica Carnevale debuting a line of chairs at Salone del Mobile 2010 right now..
Simone Völcker on her beautiful lounge inspired by butterflies.
In a sea of repeats, Lisa Hilland feels fresh
Ivanka Beton's Hübler Applied Literature project inserting out of print, outdated political books a project in conjunction with Hungarian concrete artist and designer János Hübler is part of the Hidden Heroes 2010 exhibit at Salone del Mobile 2010. Reminds me of a grown up version of the fairytale like work of recent grad Holly Palmer shown at LDF last year and featured on this site.
Ivanka Beton
Sarah Turner hits the big time with her debut at Salone Del Mobile. Her decorative lighting made from used plastic beverage bottles feel more elegant than most recycled design items I come across. They don't have a trace of rough edge or a gritty statement sensibility which feels like a nice change of pace.
I especially like this - Sarah visits schools and teaches kids. Most creative people find ways to provide additional services using their creativity, which is great and as it should be, but this is the absolute best way. I wonder what percentage of total emotional reward comes from days like these for the young designer? Is it the press and accolades that makes her most satisfied or traveling home after a morning teaching kids to make a lampshade?
Love these 'bow bins' by Cordula Kehrer
Eva Marguerre makes baskets of elastic yarn in her MOA Basket Series
Wooden Carpet by Elisa Strozyk. Earlier this year the German Design Council awarded her the German Design Award for Newcomers. She graduated from Central Saint Martens.
Joanna Grawunder's mirror for Glass Italia - colored glass and a reflecting glass (a mirror). Simple but very bright and very inventive. A piece that makes you wonder why it didn't already exist. I think it would look great in a white room with black accent pieces and no other color, acting as the focal point.
Jessica Carnevale's (RISD 2004) Stretch Chairs debut at Salone del Mobile this year.
Wonderful photo taken at the Salone del Mobile going on now in Milan, from the "Kris's Color Stripes" blog by Kristina Klarin. She has one of the best blogs I've ever seen for color inspiration. The photographs are as good as the palettes. She's a designer with one hell of an eye and sensitivity.
Thought I’d show you the palm of my hand from the RethinkHer conference last month. Some interesting stuff to help you along which echoed a lot of what I’ve been proselytizing in innovation for years. But here it is. Just the facts ma’am.
Systematizing Cultures: measures, controls market, controls organization, works in hierarchy. Cornerstone of companies which produce and sell systems. e.g. finance, tech, auto industry. Most big corporations work this way.
Empathetic Cultures: People + Ideas => What’s Being Sold. Organization flat. Fosters intuition. Nurtures ideas.
Declaration —> “There is a new economy, the Female Economy.”
Systematizing Cultures impress with a show of strength.
Biggest, Best are highly motivating in a system culture. Not so in empathetic cultures where CONNECTING and NETWORKING are what motivates.
Key Characteristics (as far as i’m concerned, also key characteristics of contemporary entrepreneurship, future thinking)
Altruism
(shared concerns, other-focused)
Connecting
(people, ideas)
Strong Aesthetic
(women = heightened sensory perception. Women drawn to environments that feel welcoming, safe, aesthetic.)
Creating Order
(things that feel in good order reduce complexity in decision making, create a context that feels comfortable, saves time.)
The Ying and Yang of it. Male like this. Female like that.
MALE SOCIAL CURRENCY vs FEMALE SOCIAL CURRENCY
jokes, factoids, sports —- gossip, real life, observation
(American, traditional) MALE SUBJECT MATTER vs FEMALE SUBJECT MATTER
things, facts — people, feelings MALE PATTERN vs FEMALE PATTERN
escalation, exaggeration — getting beneath and under, granular, detail MALE FORM vs FEMALE FORM
soundbites, headlines — detail, nuance, texture UNSPOKEN OUTCOME, MALE vs FEMALE
establish status by competing — build closeness by sharing (find similarity)
& on to Leadership, Talent, and Markets…
Make sure you don’t have little white male soldiers all in a row as your entire company board! because..
Realize there that the world over there are way more women graduating then men from universities including in China, Iran, the U.S., and Europe so let your recruitment reflect that monumental change.
Approximately 80% of all purchases including auto, finance, and gaming are made by women, not men. Contrary to popular belief, women don’t just buy the food, clothing, and design products.
Female income: 13 Trillion in 2009. 18 Trillion by 2014.
40% of the University degrees globally are held by men. 80% of the jobs lost in the U.S. recession have been lost by men (in manufacturing mostly). Only 20% of the jobs currently being created in the EU are going to men.
This headline from the Economist, “Forget China, India, and the Internet, Economic Growth is driven by women.”
this nice little slogan: rapport talk instead of report talk
The number of women making more than 100,000 has tripled in the last decade.
“Stop trying to fix the women… recognize the women that women have become.” -Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
‘It’s hard to bring out the best of female creativity in an all male-dominated ad agency.’ – Michele Miller, Wonderbranding
“Not a single woman in San Francisco came to portfolio night (where recent art director grads go to show their work to agencies) last year!” – Jesus Alonso, adwomen.org
Women are the greatest emerging market in the history of the planet. – Newsweek
‘Maybe aspiration is not always all that attractive. If you see people in an ad that makes you feel you would like the people or are like the people, you react more favorably than seeing so-called aspirational people that make you feel you don’t belong.’ – Marti Barletta
‘Men like to get the important things taken care of. Women like to get the important things taken care of and more in order to get it right.’ – Marti Barletta
-Chauncey Zalkin
*HBR were the source of a lot of stats. Not all.
**Please note that this in no way endorses or supports the owner of the hand pictured above. That’s just a little joke.
Meet 28 year old Katori Hall from Memphis. She won Best New Play at the Olivier awards. The Mountaintop is an imagined account of Martin Luther King's last evening before his 1968 assassination. The play started at a small South London theater, went to the West End where it won glowing reviews and nightly standing ovations and is now headed for Broadway, says the Guardian.
Design Student Pauline Van Dongen 3-D Printed Shoes. Featured on Fast Company.
Rorschach test reminiscent design from Shanan Campanaro. The images are parts of the artist/designer's paintings. Her bespoke wallpaper and textiles were at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show over the weekend. See more of her bespoke wallpaper at eskayel.com and her art work on her site (her name dot com, having linking issues on captions).
The list -- WWM has been up since the summer 2009. (GOTS, of course, much much longer). I thought the coming of the sun would be a good time for the first benchmark, a moment to check in on who’s been talked about so far so nothing gets lost in the shuffle. For that purpose, I’ve compiled this list. I have to warn you, it’s not complete because there’s way more content than I thought possible when I started putting it together but I think it will at least set you on your way to navigating through the site as it starts to have a past.
Next bit of news: There’s now a video page here where the incredible women featured on the site and others can come to life. Top notch creativity and thoughtfulness to engage and inspire you. I’ve replicated it here as a single stream but it will be a page (above, in the black top nav) forever and constantly growing:
- Chauncey Zalkin
WHAT HAVE WE HERE?
(a partial yet substantial list of women featured on What Women Make)
Rineke Dijkstra, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Dana Schutz, Tamy Ben-Tor, Nathalie Djurberg, Klara Liden, Ellen Altfest, Huma Bhabha, Cao Fei, Misaki Kawai, Mary Reid Kelly, Josephine Halvorson, Tacita Dean, Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison, Julie Mehretu, Mary Heilmann, Cindy Sherman, Faiza Butt, Jean Shin, Swoon, Maria Lassnig, Janet Cardiff
Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei, Edyta Cieloch, Front Design: Sofia Lagerkvist, Anna Lindgren, Charlotte von der Lancken, Capsters: Cindy Van Den Bremen, Lynn Jackson, Yin Xiuzhen, Dr. Annalee Newitz, Wieki Somers
SERIOUSLY BETA! as we prepare for the London Design Festival. Please bear with us.
Who
What Women Make is a curatorial concept by writer, ethnographer, and brand strategist, Chauncey Zalkin (founder of pioneer trend website girlonthestreet.com).
With a keen interest in innovation and user-centric design and services that herald the future of the global community, WWM showcases and celebrates the female makers of the lot – designers, creative entrepreneurs, innovators, artisans, design students – from around the world.
To inquire about digital ethnography, team training, and speaking engagements, contact me and go to the about section to learn more.
Visit the new
video page to see full size stream of top notch creativity and thoughtfulness to engage and inspire you.
→ April 16, 2010
