These plates by May Luk Ceramics are so lovely.
also, comes in a heart shape!
I’m sold…
Category: typography
Found Type: Huntington Beach
After we got off of the cruise ship, we went to Huntington Beach to hang out, have lunch, walk around… our friends’ flights weren’t until later of the day so we hopped on a car from Long Beach to here. I loved the drive along the sea, palm trees, sunshine… aww California goodness… I miss it…
and I saw lots of surfers, too. In the ocean and on the street:
Cool graphic. These were everywhere on the street.
Huntington Beach bench :: HB
No smoking, No bicycle, No skateboard:
There was this huge Pelican watching the beach…
Ruby’s Surf City Diner: love the colors!
sometimes, graphics are all you need:
Chopping board:
I love this sign! Some letters are missing so it’s drawn in, some letters are falling… but how perfect this imperfection is! I love that.
Lots of cool colors around the beach, it’s very eye catching.
Rusty sign:
Love this yellow on yellow blind emboss types, too…
It is July 1st today! Yes, summer is here!
Found Type/Art: Long Beach Airport to Mexico
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:
and I also saw a different welcome sign — it says the same thing, but you see how it feels so different with different fonts?
found art – it looks interesting and very conceptual piece.
From the Queen Mary restaurant menu (before we get on a cruise ship, we stopped by Queen Mary hotel):
I love this sign. Very vintage and cool.
and this is the cruise ship we took to Ensenada, Mexico:
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:
The patio/pool area:
Oceanfront area:
From the house backyard — Cute turtle statues:
Love this mini bicycle with plants:
Love the patterns and colors! So pretty…
One of the dining areas in the house. Isn’t it gorgeous?
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!
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!
On Vacation…
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.
Have a great weekend and have a great week next week! xo Hijiri