In Praise of Designers

A show of gratitude as two of our finest, Ia Ensterä and Jason Amato, depart Austin

"...get the applause. Directors and choreographers get the credit. Designers just get the ulcers...."

July 17, 2015 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Graphic Designers Tout the Tastiest Beverage Packaging in Town

Local beverage packaging designs quench our thirst for tasty graphics

"...So we asked a few local graphic designers what their favorites are among the wide and burgeoning..."

July 24, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Good Eye: Spectrum Designers

"...Good Eye caught up with some of the student designers participating in the UT Spectrum Fashion Show, which launches..."

April 24, 2014 Photo Gallery

Web Designers Should Be Horsewhipped

Feb. 18, 2011 Postmarks

Interior Designers

After 30 years, Miguel Ravago and Tom Gilliland offer a cookbook as challenging and fascinating as their menu

Nov. 11, 2005 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Getting the Look

Following the Path of Theatrical Designers

"...glares, phosphoresence, shimmerings, shadows. These interpreters of setting are designers...."

July 12, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hyperlocal for the Holidays

From shoes to dollhouses to leather goods, these Austin designers are doing it their way

"...for Small Business Saturday. We talked to six Austin designers and small-business owners about their inspirations, favorite holiday traditions,..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Features Feature by Nina Hernandez

Austin Fashion Week Recommended: April 28-May 2

The new week brings more shopping

"...production and event company. More than forty local retailers, designers, and product brands await you at Austin Music Hall..."

April 27, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him

"...whose aesthetic happened to coincide with the look that designers like Karl Largerfeld and Ralph Lauren craved and sold...."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

High Fashion Goes Hyperreal at Diptych II

The local fashion collective’s second spectacle of new designs

"...Three fashion designers are debuting their newest lines of apparel at a..."

May 2, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Neon Demon

Cinema's bad boy, Nicolas Winding Refn, strikes again

"...There are creepy fashion photographers (Harrington, hilarious), creepy fashion designers (Nivola, also hilarious), and well, let's just say everyone..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

High Voltage Fashion Show 2010

UT Design seniors show their talent

"...something to look forward to week-to-week: The fashions, the designers, the deadlines, and the drama...."

April 28, 2010 Design Post by Michelle Washington

The Thirteenth Warrior

"...B.C., and it's here that McTiernan and his production designers go for broke, outfitting everything from the Shire horses..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Catwalk

"...fashion collections, it ignores the yearly fluctuations of fashion designers' popularity that then influence fashion trends. Leacock's decision not..."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill

"...The real stars of this show are the set designers and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (Schindler's List). They have fashioned..."

March 24, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

From the Hands of Babes: Notions 2.5

McCallum High Student Fashion Show

"..., happens this Saturday, November 2. This year, student designers were challenged to create design based on their favorite..."

Oct. 30, 2013 Design Post by Anne Harris

You, Too, Can Be a Fashion Staah

NBC's 'Fashion Star' holds July open casting at Dallas Macy's

"...we triumph over Dallas and Houston in unknown clothing designers, and now, opportunity knocks. NBC's Fashion Star is holding..."

June 26, 2012 Design Post by Anne Harris

Sketch Your Way Down the Aisle

Jovani's bridal design contest has pencil lead flying

"...Heads up fashion hounds, soon-to-be brides and wannabe designers! Jovani Designs, home of the whoa! prom dress, as..."

Nov. 16, 2011 Design Post by Meghan Ruth Speakerman

Lighting That's Class-y (This Is Not About Dreamgirls)

"...the movie. That's right, I said it. Dreamgirls. Set designers and dressers love the Arco floor lamp – especially..."

Oct. 30, 2007 Design Post by Andy Campbell

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...Carter Oosterhouse, pert and perky hostess Paige Davis, two designers (supersweet native Texan Christi Proctor and our hero, "dastardly"..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Captain Marvel Title Sequence / Company: Elastic / Title Designers: Lisa Bolan, Nadia Tzuo, Carlo Sa, Tnaya Witmer Carnival..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Designer: Jordan Turner Aquaman / Company: Filmograph / Title Designers: Aaron Becker, Simon Clowes Babylon Berlin (Germany) / Title..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Designing a Smarter City

New weeklong event celebrates city's creative community

"...Designers and members of the public who wish to fashion..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Let's Go Hide in the Delightful Designer Forts of Fortlandia

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center brings back its fancy forts right when we need them

"...there since these are conceived and constructed by working designers who bring their professional creativity and skill to the..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Interactive Festival

With no startling new technical innovations around to distract, this year's SXSW Interactive Festival panels devoted to the visual creative process stressed that now is the time for designers to find their roots.

"...creative process stressed that now is the time for designers to find their roots. That may be difficult for..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Rob D'Amico

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...-- The Gunn Brothers, local sound designers..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Austin Fashion Week Challenge: Black and Tan

What Would Tim Gunn Say? That AFW's Black and Tan rocked.

"...Summerville invited a group of local designers to create a garment, democratically issuing the same yardage..."

May 6, 2013 Design Post by Anne Harris

After a Fashion

The Style Avatar expounds on the First Family Jewels.

"...jewelry right before Christmas -- specifically, jewelry by Austin designers Anthony Camargo and David Nakard of Anthony-Nak, and their..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Good Eye: You Say You Want a Resolution

Austin's budding fashion industry gets a vote of confidence – and a shot at diversity

"...By the mid-Nineties, however, black artists and designers were already leaving. "What I call the old heads,..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

After a Fashion

In the beginning, Stephen created the Austin and the fashion. And the fashion was without form and was void, and darkness was upon the face of South Congress ...

"...to focus on locally produced work. We established the Designers' Guild of Austin with members as diverse as ourselves..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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