
Doodlers everywhere, bow down before your ballpoint pen master: Korean-born and Brooklyn-based artist Il Lee has elevated the lowly ink doodle to high art. A lifelong scribbler myself, I’ve blown through a few ballpoint pens in my day. But I doubt anyone tops Lee…
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April : Raw Materials, Design IQ, Reinventing X, Events
July 16th, 2007

Oktoberfest may be months away, but thanks to my wardrobe’s recent infusion of Nooworks’ clothing, I’ll be cultivating my beer garden in style all year long. I first fell in love with San Francisco seamstress (and wunderbar Attic bartender) Jennifer
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April : Design IQ
May 31st, 2007

Like most kids growing up in the 80s, I loved both Mr. T and the Cabbage Patch Kids. Driven by this undying emotion, I braved San Francisco’s not-so-tender Tenderloin district last week to encounter the apparent lovechild my two childhood favorites.
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April : Events
May 30th, 2007

The frantic writers behind National Novel Writing Month are at it again. This June, they’re launching Script Frenzy, a month-long writing marathon in which the finish line is a 20,000-word stage or
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April : DIY Projects, Events
May 24th, 2007

Custom dress forms be damned. Why spend an arm and a leg on one of the limbless de Milos when, in less than two hours, you can make one from duct tape for about $15 (instead of the $300—or
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April : DIY Projects, Tools, Ideas We Wish We'd Thought Of, Reinventing X
April 30th, 2007