Tim points out to Michael D how much of an honor and a privilege it is to design for someone who's not a size 6.
When she was still living in Long Beach, answering phones at the tattoo parlor her brother worked at, and imagining she would go to design school, marry someone famous, live in a mansion.
It's harder to experiment and fail than to talk to someone who understands design principals and has done it successfully," Van Alstyne said.
The picture of life that it gave was so obviously false that it seemed designed to appeal to someone who hadn't lived very much of it, and thus couldn't tell the difference.
So when the upcoming Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" needed someone to design the glass slippers, the producers turned to him.
"I've always paid someone to design my website and for a smaller cost I could learn to do it myself, so I thought why not?
"We can't stand back and wait for someone to design something out there and bring it to Africa, and then we adopt it".
The couple advertised on Craigslist for someone to design their office in exchange for the publicity, and a group of Pratt industrial design students called Collective/4 offered their services.
She spent some time learning the ropes: setting up a Web site, figuring out social media, getting blurbs for the book, arranging for an author photo and finding someone to design the cover.
"If you asked someone to design a more crazy system they couldn't have done it... Sometimes the court has to issue an unanonymised judgment to prevent speculation becoming the new truth".
