Priscilla Carluccio is one woman who has made an imprint on our visual imagination. Here are her views on design, markets, retail, motherhood & more.

*F means feature to follow in the coming weeks The week transcended all expectations.  With a day’s distance from my time at the fair, I see the trends as follows: Reality skewing shapes, new world order inventions for sustainability rocketing us into better mousetraps, intellectual pursuit, bold against black, color and self-assuredness. Here I recount [...]

The apt definition of designer-maker given on the hidden art website is worth repeating here: “Designer-Makers design and make their own unique work, on a small or large scale. Hidden Art promotes and supports designer-makers who design and make functional items in three main categories: Designer-Makers who produce hand-made items. For example, a potter whose [...]

As long as you love what you create, there will be someone out there which shares the same feeling about it.

Sharing my messages of these, my collected and unique objects, is important for me. The rather unconventional technique of silicone casting is a snap-shot of my time and also the culture I am part of.

A different kind of jewelry designer, Naoko makes jewelry for your clothing. She decorates by changing the shape of shirts, shoes and shins – some of the more overlooked sculptural materials of our day to day selves.  What drew me to her was her work with soft metals where the wearer can change the shape [...]

Ever since I took on my first Japanese client and traveled to Kyoto with her, I’ve fallen in love with Japan like many before me.  I was reluctant to present Japanese makers so soon because when I start in on Japan, its an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole.   Time freezes and all my other [...]

I’m working on a long, big, involved writing project. Have been since January 2007. The good old fashioned way. Not in tweets, posts, or PowerPoint. In chapters. In order to do this, I split the scene and ended up in Paris and then two years later, on the Mediterranean coast, in a markedly less charged, [...]

When you are a designer in Barcelona, you usually have your hands in many pots — it’s the most free-flowing creative place I’ve ever seen, there are no restrictions and design is a virtue — so it’s not surprising to see Julia Pelletier’s site lists her projects as including everything from costumes for Madame Butterfly [...]

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 [...]