From Metropolis:

...I attended a daylong workshop called “Design the Life You Love” created by New York-based product designer Ayse Birsel...

A brisk walk from my hotel on the Upper West Side to the School of Visual Arts on West 21st Street, site of the workshop, puts this Michigander in a New York state of mind–ready to design.

The 17 other participants–12 women and 5 men–are already in the room or just arriving.

I sit next to a lovely woman, Christine, a retired lawyer originally from France. She leans toward me and whispers, “Who comes to these workshops?”

I whisper back, “People like us.”

Her eyes twinkle.

And then Ayse begins–not with the de rigueur introductions but by asking us to turn to the person next to us and sketch each other. Each of us has been given simple sketching notebooks... (continue reading)

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