Design

Graduates of the design academy presented creative solutions they developed for the community: a walker that encourages use, artfully designed rings that lead the visually impaired and more.

Greenbo, an Israeli company that designs products for growing plants in urban environments, received the 2012 red dot design award in the Product Design category. Winning products were selected based on their level of innovation, functionality and environmental compatibility.

A young Israeli artist found a way to turn his creative process into a blast. Literarily. BLAST is an innovative project by Guy Mishaly, who uses explosives to make unique stools. The graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ensures that this way, no two items are ever the same.

The city Kefar Saba in Israel is initiating a project to recycle used billboards. Every year, thousands of plastic billboard are being hung across the city. In the framework of the project, the city will collect the used billboards and deliver them to a factory that employs people with special needs to recycle them.

For ten days, Israel’s leading academy of art and design, Bezalel, is turning the country into one giant art gallery.