Hey, Is This a Joke?
Yes—you figured it out. Your Search Within is a lifestyle product website parody written by Boston writer Laura Grey. Laura is a long-time humorist, content writer, film critic and business editor. She has written for publications including the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Metro and has edited for businesses and organizations including Apple, DDB, Seattle University, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Spatially.
Boston-based writer and editor Laura Grey
Laura has designed, edited and written for dozens of newsletters, both print and online, for commercial and nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area, Seattle and Boston. She was the founder and editor of Style with Substance, one of the earliest publications providing cruelty-free product news to an international audience.
Laura writes cultural criticism for LauraGrey.com; her essays cover film, music, theater, art and history. She is also an artist who has shown her paintings and assemblages in several Seattle gallery shows. Laura has led art workshops for at-risk teens in the Seattle area and was a volunteer arts educator in multiple Seattle-area public schools for over a decade.
You can contact Laura at yoursearchwithin@gmail.com.
About the Design of Your Search Within
This site’s design is by Boston graphic designer Lily Rodseth. Lily graduated from Simmons College with a degree in graphic design and web design in 2015. She was co-head designer of the 2015 issue of CommTracks, the Simmons College communications department magazine, which received a Gold Medal and three All-Columbian honors from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and she designed materials for Simmons College's 2014 Undergraduate Orientation.
Lily won the first Bookbuilders of Boston Student Competition at the New England Book Show in 2014. She has designed infographics for Project Bread, a Boston nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger, and for PreApps, a mobile app marketing company. Lily currently does in-house graphic design and print production work for a large consulting firm. You can view Lily’s Behance portfolio here.