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It’s Friday at Design Boston… which means it’s time to get distracted by shiny objects! Shiny object number one? The sun. Which is high in the sky as I type. It’s a GORGEOUS day in Boston, and I’m terribly sorry for anyone who doesn’t live here. Mind you, when the wind starts to blow rain [...]
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Just like last year, ICFF fell on the same weekend as the SoWa Art Walk. Lucky for me, VenuView’s Crystal J. Silva went and offered her thoughts on the happenings in the South End. Thanks Crystal! It couldn’t have been a better day for the opening of the 2010 season of SoWa Open Market and [...]
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Well, hello! My name is Meg, and I’m the most recent addition to the team here at Design Boston. I’ve been a reader since I met the founder, and now — after my two week old move to this fine city — I’m a contributor! If you’ve been reading DB for very long, you already [...]
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While scouring the interwebs for this week’s Handmade Monday designer, Meg pointed at my monitor and exclaimed, “That’s GORGEOUS!” So, this week’s pick is not only beautiful, it’s girlfriend-approved. Ripegoods the brainchild of mother-daughter team Kathie and Lindsey Fieldman, who had the original concept in 2007. “What began as inspiration from a simple desire to [...]
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I’ve mentioned Jill Rosenwald in various posts before, but I have yet to give her the proper attention her work deserves. A native New Yorker that slowly moved her way northeast, Jill Rosenwald designs and makes a wide array of glazed lamps and pottery out of her Fort Point District studio. All of her designs [...]
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In last Sunday’s Boston Globe, Dushko Petrovich explored how Boston could find itself as the home of a new art revolution. In his essay, Dushko cites all that Boston has going for it: “several great museums, a superabundance of universities, many galleries, a highly educated and increasingly sophisticated audience, and a density that allows for [...]
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Talk about fashionable pillows. Carlos Santiago was born and raised in Caguas, Puerto Rico. He studied fashion design at Savannah College of Art & Design, then moved to New York to intern and work at such marquee brands as Anna Sui, Marc Jacobs, LaROK and Isaac Mizrahi Couture. Now in Boston, Carlos brings this knowledge [...]
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From a consortium of handmade designers, to a single designer — handmade Monday has a dramatic range of scale. Albertine Press is a Somerville-based, letterpress print shop run by Shelley Barande, “a sometime-architect who just loved paper more.” Albertine Press’s first specialty is as a custom design and print studio. Shelley designs and creates custom [...]
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Do you like handmade design? If so, you need to know about Boston Handmade. Boston Handmade, founded by local photographic mixed-media artist Jessica Burko in 2007, is a consortium of handmade designers “who support one another in the pursuit of creativity made by hand.” There are currently over 25 member of Boston Handmade, from fields as diverse [...]
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What a difference a week makes! Things have really picked up from last week. Drinkwater’s Cambridge – 20%-50% off all winter merchandise through 2/13. Magpie – 25% off all jewelry and valentine’s cards on Saturday 2/13 – and free cupcakes! Good – Winter sale – up to 50% off throughout the store through 2/14. DWR [...]
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