I wrote an article for NBCBayarea.com about Rickshaw Bagworks, a San Francisco-based company that makes chic laptop and messenger bags inspired by the city’s urban cycling culture. Go to:
Category Archives: Design and style
Magazines go on a harsh diet
US magazines are much thinner than they used to be, with advertising pages down more than 40 percent this year. The financial crisis has hit Conde Nast’s magazine empire more heavily than others. Let’s see who survives the downturn.
Airport 'X-ray art' tells it to the TSA
Philippine immigration forms sponsored by liquor company
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Tanduay, a liquor company in the Philippines, sponsors the country’s immigration forms. See the photo, taken by Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress). He is in the Philippines for a visit.
Japanese women run in style
You’d never expect sporty Japanese women to run or work out in ugly sweats, would you? Of course not. Read this article about the recent trend among women in Japan: exercising, but in chic outfits.

