New-Old - re: beginnings // be still
About a week before our family decided to social distance, this beautiful headshot was taken*. I was on the verge of a new/old re-launch...
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Meirav Paz
- Feb 17, 2017
- 2 min
Hot Off The Press
The sounds of the heavy steps rushing up and down in the building's stairwell would alway startle me. I'd quickly fall back asleep and...
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Meirav Paz
- Jan 30, 2017
- 3 min
The culture of coffee and the lost art of human interaction
I miss it, I really do miss it. That feeling of just dropping my bag on the ground, leaning back inside the chair, adjusting my...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Dec 11, 2016
- 2 min
Monday, December 12, 2016We all need to Lobby-up
Museums are a place of refuge, and possess an almost spiritual pause for me. From the swish of the huge glass doors, to sounds being...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Oct 16, 2016
- 2 min
Welcome to the Machine
The entry of electric appliances to the house, such as the vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, washing machine, have been deemed as a way to...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Oct 3, 2016
- 2 min
Movement Makes Meaning
How we move in space has always been something that intrigued me. When I was five years old, at my first ballet class, there was a young...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Sep 25, 2016
- 2 min
Losing Touch
Making coffee to a group of designers/architects always proved to be challenging. Never mind the personal taste they each had of how to...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Sep 18, 2016
- 2 min
Time for Some Retail Therapy
"If you could be any store in the world, what store would you be?" It's the first questions I ask first time clients when I meet them....
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Sep 11, 2016
- 2 min
Something in the Way
Life gets in the way. It does. So many times I wish for a bubble to be able to think, or at least manage to put 2 and 2 together, without...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Jan 5, 2016
- 2 min
"Calling Elvis, is anybody home?"*
When was the last time you actually had a conversation with someone? Face to face, or on the phone? I don't seem to remember when this...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Nov 29, 2015
- 2 min
FFF
FFF. Form Follows Function. Every contemporary designer aspires to reach THAT moment of the (in)famous concept of clarity in design. The...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Nov 22, 2015
- 2 min
Happy Medium
There is no bigger evil in the world of the over achieving, insta-go-getting, facebook high rollers, than the word m-e-d-i-u-m. It's this...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Nov 8, 2015
- 2 min
Design on the Run
The other night as I meticulously laid out my pre-race paraphernalia on the dinning room table, a familiar sensation hit me. It felt...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Nov 1, 2015
- 2 min
Commit to Memory
I was sitting in the car, the english countryside zooming past my face, and all I thought about was - I must remember the colors, the...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Oct 25, 2015
- 2 min
One for the team!
Last week I happened to listen to a piece on the radio about the decline of team sports in America. As a mother of 3 kids, 2 of which are...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Oct 19, 2015
- 2 min
No Name *
Branding// (as noun branding) The promotion of a particular product or company by means of advertising and distinctivedesign. Seems like...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Jul 27, 2015
- 2 min
Blank Space
This weekend I was at a Taylor Swift concert in a massive football stadium. And at the risk pitting the world of 'Swifters' against me,...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Jul 5, 2015
- 2 min
A moment in Time
This past weekend marked the 239th year of America, it was my 38th birthday. Usually around ones birthday, passing of time becomes more...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Jun 28, 2015
- 3 min
Don't be afraid of the light*
As kids we are told not to be afraid of the dark, as adults we should be taught not to be afraid of the light. Many are the people who...
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Tali Shoval-Dranes
- Jun 21, 2015
- 2 min
All Work and lots of Play
During my graduation ceremony way back then, our class speaker, diligently taped crayons to the bottom of each and every seat, it was an...
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