Bac! Festival (Barcelona’s Contemporary Art Fest) – This Year Dedicated to Female Artists. I have been here a year and the amount of design and art activity has left me cold and  yearning for another city so I was happy to be invited to this. I have no review for it but here is how I [...]

Image by Swedish Illustrator, Linn Olofsdotter Some of you are curious about the foundation of what I do aside from my passion for innovation and writing about women who create. I’m an ethnographer. I was an ethnographer long before I even knew the term. I would get frustrated with highly regimented approaches to understanding consumers (people [...]

I’m not the first person to seek out Dieneke Ferguson for an interview. After all, when you think of people who help put fledgling designers and creators on the map, who are savvy and know the business, can combine profit and practicality with benevolence and a spirit of cooperation and support, she’s the godmother. Plus [...]

When I was in the thick of my New York life and not taking many vacations out in the greenery, I was invited to go white water rafting.  My main occupation at the time was observing street style and finding order and meaning in all of that gritty gloriously imperfect urban beauty.  Mid-afternoon, we pulled [...]

picture of Ma ke from Victoria & Albert collection 1 Eva Zeisel Eva Zeisel turns 103.  Thank you to Haute*Nature for bringing this working woman’s birthday to our attention and for posting her TED Talk which I hadn’t seen. Eva is a fully decorated *design revolutionary and **lifetime achiever (*New York Magazine, **Cooper Hewitt) and then some. 2 I had my [...]

(*Pilings photo by Peter Crosby) “We Come From A Coat” -Angela Ahrendts via brandchannel.com CEO Angela Ahrendts of Burberry hit the nail on the head with Art of the Trench, a socially networked site with user submitted street photos of the classic trench in action along with snaps from Sartorialist photographer Scott Schuman (for now, other collaborators to [...]

Persephone Books is a female-run publishing house and London bookstore that publishes out of print 20th century female authors. It’s a quintessential example of the kind of business built of passion, intellect and saleability that inspired Girl on the street and What Women Make. On my way from Brompton to Bloomsbury to interview Nicola Beauman, Persephone’s [...]

I always write my own posts but this Core77 post just needed lifting and gently spreading without much fuss or comment so here goes. Re: Industrial Design graduate Yu-Ying Wu, Tatung University, Taiwan “Taipei-based industrial designer Yu-Ying Wu’s Breathing Chair resembles a block of aerated tofu. Closer inspection reveals that the triangular voids vary in size, and [...]

If I had to give a prize to a school, it would have to be Pratt. They are definitely an institution that is on the cutting edge of what needs to happen now with educational institutions in the world: solve problems, involve community. I met with Deb Johnson the director of Director of the Center for [...]

Women in Polish Design - Out of the ashes of a more austere and oppressive time comes a design landscape unfettered by a design past, one that is swiftly moving toward a vibrant future.