Gal Meets Glam: Glam isn't about sipping champagne, wearing designer items or strolling through the streets of Paris, Julia Engel says on her blog.

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That value add and our huge selection of designer and contemporary fashion items helps justify price.

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The rewards for the missions include currency or items you can wear, such as a tan neckerchief, a Mad Hatter-style hat, items that would send a designer packing in Project Runway.

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Basora is by no means the only bookish designer out there, though her Fall 2010 items are shown throughout this post.

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The idea of the 3D printer determining the form of the items it produces intrigues Neri Oxman, an architect and designer who heads a research group examining new ways to make things at MIT's Media Lab.

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