A2: City Guide

The Design*Sponge blog posts a city guide to Ann Arbor by Jaimi Gadaix, with an illustration by Nicole Ray. Gadaix lists attractions in the categories of See, Taste, Hear, Touch, Smell (Pot & Box and the Hash Bash), Shop and Play. In the intro to the Shop category, she writes: “If you’re in the mood to shop, there are plenty of great ‘university stores’ (Urban Outfitters, American Apparel), and many unique, eclectic, artsy and vintage shops that will keep you plenty busy. But I still secretly wish for an Anthropologie or a Design within Reach. It must be said that people here appreciate good clothes, but instead of being fixated with what’s new at the Gap, we are more into our own individual styles, creatively consigning and living a life that is slightly more focused on experiences vs. material objects. That, in my opinion is why Ann Arbor has major style in it’s own right.” [Source]