The 28-year-old
Ben Molina used to be an animator and lives in Tel Aviv. Molina who has graduated from the Design Department of Shenkar College, studied illustration and animation and has been making anime movies for the last four years. We talked about
‘Half a Saba’ with him.
How did you get the idea to make the animated movie Half a Saba ?
The idea came to me during the interviews I had with my grandfather whom I was named after. When I was small, I used to sit on his lap while he told me his memories of his old life in Turkey. It has been more than ten years since my grandfather’s memory loss started. I thought that I had to record these stories. Both his stories and his way of speaking were emotionally so strong that I decided to make a movie about him.
Wallpaper’s Marco Sammicheli appointed Director of the Triennale’s Museum of Italian Design
Wallpaper’s Marco Sammicheli appointed Director of the Triennale’s Museum of Italian Design
The design critic and curator has been at Wallpaper since 2017, and part of the Triennale team during this time. He will now oversee and grow the Italian institution’s design collections
Established in 2019, the Museum of Italian Design at the Triennale includes a series of over 1600 objects that represent the history of Italian Design. Pictured here, in the building’s curved gallery, is Alessandro Mendini’s Poltrona di Proust, a design from 1978.
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The zany hats of Maor Zabar
‘If you’re daring enough and want to make a fashion statement, a hat is the most standout item to do that with,’ says the Israeli designer.
“I used to drive my parents nuts,” admits the 42-year-old award-winning costume and hat designer.
Fortunately, his parents indulged their little boy’s artistic exploits. They sent him to afterschool art lessons and the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design for high school. He spent a year living with an uncle in New York, learning makeup artistry before finding his true calling.
Zabar’s famed creations include the attention-grabbing getup that Netta Barzilai wore for her winning performance in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. (Click here to watch how it was assembled.)