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Chauncey Zalkin: What Women Make @ Designersblock
PUBLISHED 6 Sep 2010 - 7:53am
AUTHOR: William Shaw
Design writer and brand strategist Chauncey Zalkin curates What Women Make at Designersblock during this Festival, showcasing emerging designers from around the globe. Exhibits include these dolls (above from embroiderer, fabric designer and artist Shuyu Lu) and this tableware by Japanese team On Za Line (below). Is what women make different from what men make?The proposition is not that women make things that are different from what men make, but I would conjecture that, yes, women tend to bring a different set of cultural, social, emotional antennae which would influence the outcome of what... More
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Design and gender: What Women Make
PUBLISHED 15 Aug 2010 - 8:22am
AUTHOR: William Shaw
Polyp by Helene Steiner
Helene Steiner's beautiful wall-mounted laundry pods, Polyp, are one of the designs being shown at the DesignersBlock exhibition What Women Make from 23 - 26 September as part of the London Design Festival. The exhibition is the brainchild of Chauncey Zalkin, writer and brand strategist who founded the website GirlOnTheStreet.com back in 1999, and who now runs the network WhatWomenMake.com.  What Women Make has an international line up of women artists, tapestriers, ceramicists and designers. It'll include new work from the Dutch fashion designer Pauline Van Dongen and look out for the... More
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