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Browsing Tag »women«

What Women Bring to the Table – Designers, Artists, Thinkers, & Inventors to Start the Week →  February 8, 2010

Ideas and Design on my radar right now. An eclectic bunch.

The Forest for the Trees: 2 Women Leading Biomimicry in Design →  November 20, 2009

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 [...]

Talk about an Inspiration – Two to start the week →  November 17, 2009

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 [...]

Taiwan: Red Dot Design Award Winner Breathes New (Plant) Life Into Chair Design →  October 26, 2009

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 [...]