05/31/2009
First Peek at Maker Faire ‘09
Katherine Sharpe
The first day of Maker Faire '09 has come and gone. The event was incredibly well-attended---I'll be curious to hear the official count when it comes out. A substantive and thoughtful post is on the way. Tonight, I'm bone-tired, uploading 400 pictures to Flickr, and seeing the day in bits and pieces: Make contributing editor Bill Gerstell's talk this evening about how danger and risk are necessary . . . Continue Reading
So, . . . 
Up today, husband-and-wife design-build team Jeffrey McGrew and Jillian Northrup. They work together as 
First up, Oakland native Polly Conway, who designs jewelry and accessories as 
It's hard to believe that just a week ago, the frenzy of New York Design Week was brand new. While the last wisps of it are still in the air, I wanted to be sure to write . . . 
You want to know what going to to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair is like? It's like squatting down, taking a picture of a piece of furniture that's more beautiful than it is comfortable and realizing that what you're really doing is taking a picture of a fabulous person taking a picture of the same beautiful piece of furniture. And that the lighting is inexplicably bad.
Have you ever . . . 
Clearly, sharing all of our favorite things about New York Design Week and the ICFF is going to take a day or two. Better dive . . . 
