The LUZ fine jewelry collection is a piece of wearable art that you can conveniently display and enjoy on your finger. Custom-made for the individual, the unisex line is boldly making its mark. At a glance, the intense level of intricacy and an ergonomically designed four-sided ring is a sure give-away of a LUZ piece.

UK-based industrial design team, Arash + Kelly debut two new pieces: the Seventy Pound Note piece and the Lord of the Flies fly swatter. And with all the Quantitive Easing going on, it seems the £50 note is about to get a run for its money, being the head of the clan.

It’s no secret that Iranian women are a force to be reckoned with… So get ready to meet your latest rising star, the super-talented female entrepreneur and jewelry designer: Lisa Nik. Previously, Executive Vice President of RC for luxury jewelry line Roberto Coin, where she worked for over a decade, the multilingual Lisa–she is fluent in [...]

UK-based industrial designers, Arash and Kelly, are running a prize draw to get your support to help the dedicated, hardworking, and compassionate people that are Y.E.S.S, a small charity in Camberwell, South London who provide City and Guilds and GCSE courses for disadvantaged children, helping them build a better future for themselves. (They were recently featured [...]

April 2010–Iranian-born, British-educated artist Mia Jafari has been making a name for herself: Fusing Iranian landscapes with elements of pop art, commodity, culture, and kitsch. This spring, inspired by Persian carpets and luxurious commodities, Jafari debuts ‘Ladybirds Strawberry Cosmos’, a collection of seductively playful, hand-finished limited edition silk scarves. Jafari invites you to bask in [...]

Seems like it was just last season (season six to be exact) that we got our fix of “Iranians on TV”–via the tiny Persian designer, Shirin Askari–on Lifetime‘s Project Runway. Wait…it was. But now, there’s a new Persian girl–who’s also (originally) from Texas like her predecessor–to watch on the show of shows in Fashion, Iranian-American fashion [...]