*Tokyo: Onzaline’s Ai Kurahashi and partner preparing their collection I’ve been on the hunt for a web designer to ramp us up for the London Design Festival and readying our roster of 10 designers and artists.  I’m so very excited. I find the whole process of preparing this show and working with these talented and [...]

Help! I am trapped by my wordpress template! I have been afraid to just simply blog because I have a magazine style site where I forgo my writerly urges to post the result of my endless female creativity talent search. Women who I find through my endless trolling for the best of the best in [...]

Looking for innovative, envelope-pushing, culturally diverse female designers to come forward and join us to show at the 2010 London Design Festival. We have 8 award winning or otherwise lauded designers, most of which have been written up right here on What Women Make, some brand new to WWM, coming together to show at the [...]

Nina Judin Books I’m a writer who considers each journal I buy very carefully. It can make or break the next month of writing, so I can appreciate Nina Judin’s work. She knows how to weave and glue a heartfelt handmade journal to perfection. She’s on Etsy. Laura Spector Wood gone wild. So incredibly beautiful. [...]

article excerpt: —————– In the fall I presented an ethnography seminar in Barcelona in partnership with a company called Brain Ventures.  During the session, I relayed stories of media-producing eleven year olds, rap industry insiders who vehemently denied the validity of a client’s research, and stuffed animal nostalgia that offered insight into grown up identity. [...]

*This picture was taken from the FastCompany article: “Swedish/German designer Katrin Greiling plumbs Arab traditions in her furniture designs.” It’s been a busy month and I haven’t been updating the site so here I’ve decided to wrap up the important news in creativity and leadership that may have been missed. 1) Fast Company named the [...]

*lead photo: Jessica Carnevale debuting a line of chairs at Salone del Mobile 2010 right now..

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 [...]

*my retro visual pick for women at the helm

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, [...]