Art

“The Circle”: What the New Material of the Design World Looks Like

A dress grown from its own root system. A car that folds itself smaller to move through a crowded city. A machine that pulls drinking water out of the air. An eight-meter wooden whale shark, suspended mid-swim in a gallery. These are not props from a speculative film - they are exhibits, and this September they will fill five spaces inside Design Museum Holon. “The Circle,” opening to the public o...
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Art, Inspiration & trends

When the Table Becomes a Canvas

There are objects we place on a table because we need them. And there are objects that change the table completely, bringing character, memory, texture, humor and a sense of occasion into the space around them. This was the idea behind DI Catalogue’s x ECLECTICTLV  Open Call "One Table" - to discover local artists, designers and makers working across ceramics, metal, textile, wood and other materi...
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Art

The Pouch, the Wing, the Scale: Inside a Wardrobe Built by Evolution

A shirt cut like the pouch of a red kangaroo, offering warmth and shelter. A corset that inflates like the body of a pufferfish bracing for danger. A headpiece born from the crescent-caped lophorina's courtship display. Fashioning Animals, a new exhibition at the Museum of Man and the Living, invites twelve Israeli fashion designers to look past fur and feathers as mere pattern, and into the deepe...
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