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 [...]

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 [...]