Keyword results: Badges
Working as a doctor, the stethoscope around your neck earns you a certain amount of respect. Even as I accidentally wander into a family bereavement room looking for a urinary catheter or glue my fingers together with tissue glue, I can console myself with the knowledge that people are thinking "She's busy.
"I thought I was being punk'd when they said I could have a stall", responded designer Michael Pham when I asked him whether it was a pain in the ass to get a space at the Melbourne Design Market. The one-day-only event, put on by the Melbourne International Design Festival, houses stalls offering everything from jewellery, to lighting, to gadgets and Pham's badges.
Keeping up with a dirty hipster's required reading can be dispiriting. You've gotta know your Lethem from your Eggers, classic novels from graphic novels. And while everyone's raving about the hilariously ironic promotional campaign for Chuck Palahniuk's latest effort, the last book you read was Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell.
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