Myown experiments in design embrace the handmade and bear the evidence, the memory, of being 'handcrafted, ' which is something that has a different resonance in the information age.
But I can designmyown work schedule and choose which clients I work for, and that makes a big difference in being able to be the the type of parent I want to be to my four children.
General Motors and Ford sponsored some of our events, but my tour of the Ford Rouge factory, where workers assembled the Ford F-150 pickup, was paid for out of myown pocket and it was well worth it for a car design lover and transportation geek like myself.