The decision to trailblaze Finding a job can be difficult, but starting your own business from scratch is definitely one of the most difficult things a person can do. The business model needs to be spot-on, and the brand new…
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How Pastry Chef Laure Larrose Achieved Her Dream of Baking in New York City
When watching a professional baker on television, it can be easy to believe that they were just born with a special gift for creating tasty and visually appealing desserts and pastries. What we don’t see is the hundreds or even…
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Artist Sera Boeno on Displacement and Identity
On the Move It’s difficult to generalize about how Americans feel when it comes to a nomadic lifestyle. There are certainly members of older generations who feel that financial stability and a lack of geographical movement are one and the…
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Jewelry Maven Katy Lee on Artisanal Work
The Boutique Movement The artisanal movement of the 2010s is still having profound effects on design and small-scale manufacturing around the globe, but especially here in the United States. While at first media outlets perceived this major shift as taking…
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Interview: Melanie Legoupil Creates Foods that Delight and Inspire
In the early days of this site, we told friends and family about the basic premise. The expectation from everyone we told was that we would feature graphic designers and visual artists, almost exclusively. And of course, design does indeed…
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