• Haven’s Kitchen

    Haven’s Kitchen is a new kind of community-based business – cooking school, meeting place, cafe, event venue – that fills the gap on incorporating seasonal food from independent farmers and food businesses into your daily life, supporting a larger ecosystem of sustainable food that benefits each one of us and our planet. Run by friendly, [...]

  • Ballet for a New Generation

    Jessica Lang Dance blends classical form, clean lines, and poetry. This is dance that is philosophically driven with a profound soulfulness that anyone can feel. Lang’s sets are fresh and dynamic, like a moving painting and sculpture coming together. At the same time, they are incredibly sophisticated in their simplicity. Her choreography is a mix [...]

  • Edible Schoolyard NY

    Show Love is honored to have been chosen to bring you the incredible story of Edible Schoolyard New York – a garden-centered hands-on learning program springing up in New York’s neediest neighborhoods with the goal of spreading to schools all over the city. As the first showcase school in Gravesend, Brooklyn (P.S. 216) heads towards [...]

  • Cosmos Copa

    Every year, 36 ‘national teams’, comprised of the diverse communities that make up New York City, come together to play in a World Cup tournament called Cosmos Copa. Organized by the legendary New York Cosmos and heralded as a one-of-a-kind event that showcases the best of NYC, this grassroots tournament attracts a huge following in [...]

  • Alteri Bakery

    Alteri Bakery is a family-owned bakery based in Watertown, NY and serving the upstate New York region. Using traditional techniques Alteri retains a handmade quality while serving an ever-growing customer base. Show Love spent the morning at their bakery watching the bakers work their magic.  

  • Battle of the Drumlines

    A documentary short exploring the concept of the drumline, featuring footage and interviews filmed in Brooklyn in April 2012 during the annual Battle of the Drumlines. Hosted by the Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band (www.bksteppers.org) the event draws the finest talent from the Tri-state area for a unique event, with this year’s special guests North Carolina [...]

  • The Inverted Bike Shop

    Amongst the multitude of bike shops across Manhattan and Brooklyn, 718 Cyclery (www.718c.com) stands out for their unique approach to the business. This is the “inverted bike shop”.

  • New York Cicerone

    Justin Ferate is one of New York’s preeminent tour guides, and carries an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the city with him. His exuberance and attention to detail is one of many reasons he has such a loyal following – many people who join his tours revisit multiple times. He does all sorts of tours – [...]

Welcome to Show Love World

Storytelling services for the makers, the doers, the thinkers, the tinkerers,the innovators, the problem solvers, the passionate people of the world.

What We Do

Web designers design websites. Most often they walk away leaving companies scrambling to figure out how to fill their beautiful new website with valuable engaging and dynamic content. That's where we step in. And then we take it off the page to 2.0 and beyond.

Who we are

Peter Crosby (filmmaker, editor) and Chauncey Zalkin (writer, ethnographer, content strategist). We look for companies, organizations, and people with stories that need to be told - and we tell them using video, text, tweets, posts, pages, events, installations, apps, whatever we (cont)

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Profile: Museum of Ideas and Inventions in Barcelona

A profile of inventor Pep Torres, whose passion and perseverance led to him founding the Museum of Ideas and Inventions in Barcelona (MIBA).

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Stories We believe that storytelling from your company should be genuine and authentic. That’s why we approach the job like documentary filmmakers. You can plug and play tweets and Facebook updates if you want to but people are pretty savvy about messaging which is why they’ve retreated from TV ads to make their consumer choices [...]

Ikiru

Ikiru (www.ikiru.es) is a Japanese furniture and interior design products store located in Barcelona. All their futons are handmade in their nearby warehouse, following ancient Japanese tradition and technique to provide products customers with a unique, traceable and quality product with a personal service.

Matières à réflexion

Matières à réflexion (matieresareflexion.com) in Paris is a wonderful example of a store/workshop combination, a place that combines process, discovery, craftsmanship and human interaction in a single experience. What Women Make (www.whatwomenmake.com) spoke with designer Laetitia Azpiroz and partner Cyrille Raillet about their work.

eme3 International Architecture Festival

A video summary of this 4-day event held in Barcelona June-July 2011.

Is a Social Media Expert What You Really Need?

I’ve read several articles denouncing the validity of social media expertise and in a lot of ways, sympathize with the sentiment. When I interviewed Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Worldwide at the ADC*E Awards earlier this month, he cautioned the industry against their folly of calling ‘social media’ a medium at all. The [...]


The Art Directors Club of Europe: 2011 Awards Video

The Art Directors Club of Europe (ADC*E) 20th Annual Best of European Design and Advertising Awards Weekend in Barcelona, Spain. July 2011.

The Art Directors Club of Europe: Amir Kassaei Interview

Here is a bonus interview with Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Worldwide and the jury president at the 2011 ADC*E Best of European Design and Advertising Awards. Interview by Chauncey Zalkin, the ADC*E Press Officer and Social Media Director. Video and Editing by Peter Crosby.

Hotel Torre Laurentii

Set in a beautiful, renovated medieval mansion house in the peaceful village of Sant Lorrenç de la Muga, Northern Catalonia, Hotel Torre Laurentii is one of kind. Your stay offers a wonderful combination of tranquility, escape, luxury and stunning natural beauty surrounded by the valleys, hills and rivers of the lower Pyrenees region. It is [...]

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Three Steps To Social Content Bliss

Your website is the hub of your online identity. The more dynamic it is, the more engaged your audience and clients will be. A stagnant page can be pretty, but it’s not going to do much for your business. That’s where a blog comes in. A blog is your voice in motion. A blog entry [...]

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Show Love This embodies our mission. With all the bad rap capitalism is getting these days, we want to show what’s beautiful about enterprise. About absorbing everything around you as a citizen of the world, happening upon the kernel of an idea born out of a need or a desire, a gap in the marketplace, [...]

Palestine in focus

`Paradigma de paz` – a two day event of art and interaction on the Israel/Palestine conflict at art space Corretger5. Day one is an exhibition of photographs showing daily life in modern day Palestine, with day two as an evening of interactive discussions and brainstorming sessions with speakers from renowned organizations around Barcelona.

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@ The London Design Festival

In late September 2010, Chauncey Zalkin curated a group show in London with an accompanying night of talks. What Women Make ~ Women in Design 1st ed. was an official event and London Design Festival partner. The exhibit took place at The Bargehouse at Oxo Tower and was part of Designersblock. Women in Design – [...]

Barcelona Reykjavik

A short film about the eco-bakery Barcelona Reykjavik and the care and precision that goes into their wonderful creations. Using only ecological ingredients farmed from within Catalonia and Southern France, and created using ancient methods and recipes, from source to table, this is a business that does things the right way.

What Women Make Exhibit 2010

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