Lisa Roberts

Originally trained as an architect, Lisa found a greater passion for graphic and product design. Over three decades, she designed in the gift and home furnishing markets for more than 50 diverse manufacturers. Her designs were applied to dinnerware, textiles, paper tableware, clocks, watches, wrapping paper, greeting cards, and many more.

She also created meticulous cut paper collages of architecture and interiors that were reproduced onto notecards and branded products for museum stores and hotels. Private clients commissioned her to create portraits of their homes.

Intermittently, Lisa took breaks from designing and wrote four books about contemporary product design: Antiques of the Future, DesignPOP, Mr. Waffles Loves Design, and What is Good Design: A simple question without a simple answer. She was also featured in a TV docu-series titled, “My Design Life.”

In 2020, during the pandemic, Lisa’s work changed direction again. She let go of the constraints of product and architecture, and evolved into abstract art. With her love of color and working in cut paper, she found respite in abstraction. She loved the ‘high’ she got when putting just the right colors together and then letting them tell her where to go.

University of Pennsylvania, BA Architecture/Fine Arts
Washington University, Master of Architecture

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2024, group show
Morton Contemporary Gallery, 2023, solo show
James Oliver Gallery, 2022, 2-person show