Top of the Shops

Earlier this year, Monocle published a feature on the new(ish) retail hub in downtown Los Angeles, Row DTLA. The story highlighted a number of the businesses there, including Myrtle, an independent boutique…

design, press, los angelesVictoria VuSeptember 10, 2019illustration, nude, figure drawing, candleComment

Designing is not a profession but an attitude

Reading Design recently put this piece by László Moholy-Nagy on my radar. With my eyes, hands, and feet in both architecture and graphic design (and with general appreciation of the arts), I find many of LMN’s ideas to ring true…

designVictoria VuMay 17, 2019László Moholy-NagyComment

The Master of Paper Props

“A lot of what you’re seeing on the screen was custom made by people like me. All the patents, the book of secrets, course playbook, newspapers, large books, passports, maps…”

Alan Kitching & Monotype

“The craft ethos is coming back…They want to feel that someone's made this, it didn't come from a machine or factory. Somebody's actually…used their hands and their eyes and made this thing.”