Month: June 2009

Found Type/Art: Long Beach Airport to Mexico

Posted on by Hijiri

I found lots of types, arts and designs on my trip and I would love to share them all here for your inspiration and for my inspiration… I know I can use some of the elements for my design someday… I think it’s also a fun way to show where I have been for the last 10 days :)

I’m going to start from the beginning of my trip… We arrived at Long Beach Airport in LA.

Nice Helvetica welcome board:

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and I also saw a different welcome sign — it says the same thing, but you see how it feels so different with different fonts?

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found art – it looks interesting and very conceptual piece.

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From the Queen Mary restaurant menu (before we get on a cruise ship, we stopped by Queen Mary hotel):

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I love this sign. Very vintage and cool.

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and this is the cruise ship we took to Ensenada, Mexico:

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It was a 3-day wedding cruise, stopped by Ensenada for one day, went to this gorgeous place for a wedding.

The hand-written/drawn house sign:

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The patio/pool area:

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Oceanfront area:

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From the house backyard — Cute turtle statues:

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Love this mini bicycle with plants:

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Love the patterns and colors! So pretty…

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One of the dining areas in the house. Isn’t it gorgeous?

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The wedding was beautiful as you can imagine :)

and… right before I got back to the cruise ship, found this wall and the public phones — love the color combination!

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I saw lots of hand-written ads on the street on the way to the wedding venue, I wish I wasn’t in the car so I could have taken more pictures because they looked so cool…. next time, maybe… :)

Hope you enjoy so far — more to come!

I am back!

Posted on by Hijiri

Hello! I am back from vacation now, a lot to catch up, feeling a little tired and overwhelmed with what I have to catch up with, but we had such a nice time with friends, different cities, weddings were great, got lots of happy energies…. it was a great trip :)

I took a lot of pictures and I will be sharing them here all week this week! I need sometime to sort everything out, though… (I took 419 pictures, apparently.)

Pictures are from the flight. I love looking out the window and see the sky, ground, the whole earth… it is always different, always inspiring to me.

Somewhere in between LA and Boston:

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Somewhere in between Boston to New York:

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(the window was really dirty – can you see?)

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The best part of coming back from vacation was to see Maia!!! She had a great time also, with her best friend, Hime and her parents. We missed her so much!! Thanks to our petsitter, Mallow and Milo the Chinchillas were doing great, too! :)

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On Vacation…

Posted on by Hijiri

Happy Friday, everyone! Well… I am off to a vacation! I’m probably flying somewhere in US right now… going to Los Angels, cruise to Mexico, spend little time in southern California and then Boston… (2 weddings to go for 2 weekends, west coast and east coast) I will be back on Monday the 29th this month with lots of pictures, inspirations, found art and type, please check back then! I might post something here and there from my iPhone… or follw me on twitter for an occasional updates :)

Images are something I found in Lower East Side yesterday. Awesome type and design, caught my eye.

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Have a great weekend and have a great week next week! xo Hijiri

Found Type: Park Slope

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Yesterday, I was running around like a crazy woman trying to run all the errands, finish as many things as possible before I leave for 2 weddings/vacation on Friday… (yes, I’ll be on vacation! I sooo need it, I can’t wait!) and found cool type… I had to take photos… found some more… had to take photos… so here are my type finds from all over the Park Slope. (it is a huge area)

This big garbage bin had lots of cool type and texture…

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Love this look.

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Vintage looking Pharmacy sign.

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Yes, it’s Record & Tape Center! aww so good.

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This bar on 5th Avenue north Park Slope is covered entirely with chalkboard outside. Even their store sign is written in chalk! (and they still have chalkboards out, too…)

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Love the hand-lettering.

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What a fun idea! Especially for a bar – unfortunatelly, I didn’t find any chalks to doodle around when you are hanging around outside… oh.. that might not work out too well… I don’t know what the drunken people would doodle… :)

Have a great day!!