About The Green Velvet Chair: Heartfelt Stories
When we become acutely aware of the surroundings of our life, we discover that art is not only found in museums, but it also appears in food, music, nature, and so much more. Beyond what the eye can see, The Green Velvet Chair: Heartfelt Stories of Art and Design in Everyday Life, is a collection of stories told from the viewpoint of a seasoned designer, depicting how art and design flood our everyday lives through music, food, nature, and so much more.
Laura Ballerini, a designer who started much of her creative journey at a big city newspaper and now owns her own digital design boutique, seamlessly weaves together an unlikely array of stories about her inspiring mother, museum visits, online shopping, designing in the dirt, and many other adventures (including a visit to Graceland). Some of these essays are funny, some poignant–all are memorable snippets of universal experiences meant to spark our awareness and awaken us to the rich fields of design all around us.
While this is Ballerini’s personal journey spanning over forty years of working in the design industry, those of us who are willing to be awakened will realize that art and design are the glue that holds all of life together.
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Author Bio:
Laura Ballerini is a seasoned graphic designer with a degree in Visual
Communications and over forty years of working in the industry. Ballerini has experienced the many facets of art, design, and communications over the decades.
Having worked for a big-city newspaper, a leading Advertising Agency, and
currently running her own design boutique, BluBrown Communications Inc.,
Laura has honed her skills to merge writing and visual design into one. BluBrown is named after her two daughters-one with blue eyes and one with brown eyes; the concept was to always look at design through the fresh eyes of a child and always ask “why?”
Laura lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband, two daughters, one son-in-law, a granddaughter, and a pretentious cat named Gooey.