Maker Faire came to town and brought a bunch of geniuses. Or, well, not sure how you measure that but at the very least a bunch of creative inventor types.
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I moved to Detroit eleven years ago, in what I thought was a short
stay exclusively to attend graduate school. After witnessing the
potential to work, educate, and maintain a studio practice here, I never
used my ticket home to the East Coast.
In just a few years after founding my neckwear design company, The Cyberoptix Tie Lab,
I was able to quit the proverbial "day job" and work full-time in my
studio without having to worry about the outrageous overhead costs that
plague start-ups in many other major cities.
This freedom allowed me to quickly grow my business to a level where my work is now
represented by over 200 boutique and museum shops across the country and
on five continents. I don't know if I could have done this anywhere
else.
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