Chauncey Zalkin

Not since the Eames chair have we had a real design movement in America. Not until Apple came around and put design front and center in the cultural landscape. But what about furniture? From Brooklyn to San Francisco, and everywhere in between, a new generation of designer-makers are cropping up.

Feminists have always railed against the belittling and inaccurate portrayal of women on TV and in movies. It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world. The...

In the height of social media madness where everybody's looking for an expert to jump start their businesses' online fame, articles keep popping up decrying the validity of such a new practice. Though I don't agree, I do sympathize with the sentiments shared. When I interviewed

Barcelona World Race 2010 - 2011

article by Chauncey Zalkin
video by Peter Crosby

Most days along the Barcelona port, African immigrants unravel their draw-string blankets full of counterfeit goods as swarms of tourists line up for the one restaurant with...

Nina Judin Books

It's been a busy month and I haven't been updating the site so here I've decided to wrap up the important news in creativity and leadership that may have been missed.

1) Fast Company named the "10 Most Creative Women in Business" for 2010. They include already very famous people...

*lead picture, Lou Doillon in Anthony Vaccarello on StyleBubble

I am at a conference right now called RethinkHer in Barcelona and just had a long chat with Marti Barletta arguably the queen of marketing to women. I tweeted about her on Friday after finding her Twitter...

The following post offers a review of the documentary The September Issue as well as insight into how differently I see things now compared to fifteen years ago.

I wrote my thesis on Vogue magazine. Up there in...

How can people who've honed their skills with passion and vision contribute to the next phase of humanity instead of say, make another KFC ad? What we do now will determine our future.

History is not a continuum. Now's a time when history is showing its joints and bending. But...

Ideas and Design on my radar right now. An eclectic bunch.

Cutaway vase by Polish designer Edyta Cieloch

"Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei of Iran, awarded a CAREER award in 2003 by the...

Girl Drive, a project where two young college grads, friends, get in a car and travel around America taking the temperature of contemporary feminism. The book came out in October of 2008. I read about it in...

I was happy to see that the New York Times "Emerging Artists of the Decade" list started with two women, Rineke Dijkstra and Jessica Jackson Hutchins, both of whom I am unfamiliar with, so I decided to look at more of their work. One of the articles that featured...

When I was in the thick of my New York life and not taking many vacations out in the greenery, I was invited to go white water rafting. My main occupation at the time was observing...

Persephone Books is a female-run publishing house and London bookstore that publishes out-of-print 20th century female authors. It's a quintessential example of the kind of business built of passion, intellect and saleability that inspired Girl on the Street and What Women Make.

On my way from Brompton to...

Out of the ashes of a more austere and oppressive time comes a design landscape unfettered by a design past, one that is swiftly moving toward a vibrant future.

Gian Luca Amadei, product editor of Blueprint magazine, saw a spark in one designer from Poland who spoke with infectious enthusiasm...

The week surpassed all expectations. With a day's distance from my time at the fair, I see some clear trends in design and business -- reality skewing shapes, new world order inventions for sustainability rocketing us into better mousetraps, intellectual pursuit, bold against black, color and self-assuredness -- but the...