Category Archives: Art & Design

SXSW: The good, the bad, and the fugly

Living in Austin, one of the perks (or downsides, depending on how you view traffic jams and industry insiders taking over your town) is being around for the annual SXSW festival. Having never been to this mega-fest in years past, and always looking on rather enviously, I’m now actually living at Ground Zero for some …

February 23, 2010 – 6:47 pm | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Art & Design, Austin, Film, Music | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

ChicStar brings hot fashions at affordable prices

Fashionistas among us undoubtedly already know about ChicStar.com, a website that offers budding fashion designers the chance to win money for their designs and even have them turned from paper dreams into reality. We not-quite-so-fashionable masses are just discovering their wares, but wow, am I impressed with their selections! Normally, I’m a pretty big jeans …

February 16, 2010 – 10:45 am | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Art & Design | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

I am Plastica, but Plastica is not!

I love finding new fonts. While I am often drawn to the quirky, like the typewriter fonts or the messily “handwritten” fonts that conjure up images of real people using pens and ink, I’m also fairly traditional in my tastes. I like serifs; they seem business-like and authoritative. Of course my modern side prefers sans-serif …

January 9, 2010 – 3:31 pm | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Art & Design, Life of an Artist, Visual Arts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Are we human or are we paparazzi?

I’ve been reading articles in the New York Times lately (since my hometown paper isn’t even worth the trees it kills to print it), and it occurred to me while reading this article about museums that I’ve “done” the Louvre, but don’t have a single photo from it. Sure, you can find plenty of visuals …

August 3, 2009 – 7:45 am | By Laura Roberts | Posted in Chicago, Montreal, New York, Paris, Visual Arts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)