As celebrated interior designer Michael Smith once noted, “Los Angeles is a dinner party town,” an observation that may explain the city’s house-proud fueled obsession with real estate and interior design. May’s one-two punch of design festivals — La Cienega Design Quarter Legends and the inaugural Design Miami.LA — celebrates our passion for all things home.
La Cienega Design Quarter Legends 2024: May 7-9
The La Cienega Design Quarter “Legends” event, which celebrates all things interior design, makes its annual bow on May 7. The theme this year is “Rooms in Bloom.”
Kicking off the Lcdq celebration is a May 7 gala at The Sunset Tower Hotel honoring Pamela Shamshiri, known for her work on the homes of Anne Hathaway, Paul McCartney and Ryan Murphy.
Interior designer Pamela Shamshiri of Studio Shamshiri
The design fest draws interior design professionals and aficionados for two days (May 8 and 9) of dynamic panels, exclusive lunches,...
La Cienega Design Quarter Legends 2024: May 7-9
The La Cienega Design Quarter “Legends” event, which celebrates all things interior design, makes its annual bow on May 7. The theme this year is “Rooms in Bloom.”
Kicking off the Lcdq celebration is a May 7 gala at The Sunset Tower Hotel honoring Pamela Shamshiri, known for her work on the homes of Anne Hathaway, Paul McCartney and Ryan Murphy.
Interior designer Pamela Shamshiri of Studio Shamshiri
The design fest draws interior design professionals and aficionados for two days (May 8 and 9) of dynamic panels, exclusive lunches,...
- 5/5/2024
- by Abigail Stone
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"The way things work in communication design is frequently enhancing understanding, which is of course is at the heart of much of the Vignelli's legacy work," Richard Grefe of the American Institute Of Graphic Arts, says about Lella and Massimo Vignelli, the subjects of "Design Is One." "To the extent that the communication designer, the graphic designer, plays the role of the intermediary between information and understanding. The Vignellis have been messiahs in that regard, in terms of making the complex clear, for those of us who need answers." And while the documentary by Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra certainly makes a case for the thesis that the Vignellis were the premiere purveyors of simple, beautiful, striking and clear design, the film itself is a jumbled, scattershot experience that is all too content to simply gawk at their work, rather than investigating their methods and history with any depth. While...
- 10/12/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The contradiction of design is that it aspires to be both beautiful and self-effacing, shaping at all times our perception of public space and corporate image while remaining tactfully beyond our grasp, unauthored and void of meaning. Take the well-known New York subway map of 1972: It streamlined the inscrutable sprawl of the city's transit system into an elegant arrangement of color-coded lines, producing a diagram at once intuitive and geographically abstract. Naturally, the question of authorship arises: Who is responsible for New York's radical, graphical reimagining? Design Is One, a new documentary by Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra, tells us that the accountable pair are Lella and Massimo Vignelli, and, as it happens, their contributions to the popular im...
- 10/9/2013
- Village Voice
The man, with Massimo Vignelli, behind one of the best way-finding systems on the planet.
Bob Noorda, who redesigned the New York City subway system with Massimo Vignelli, died earlier this month. Noorda and Vignelli founded Unimark International in 1965 (Noorda was based in Milan, Vignelli in Chicago), the firm you can blame, or credit, with making Helvetica one of the most widely used typefaces on earth. "Don't bore the public with mysterious designs," Noorda said, and so we have his 1966 New York subway signage, as simple as it gets, and still in use today.
An obituary by Steve Heller in The New York Times points out that Noorda's original plan was for black letters on white signs, but the Mta thought they'd get dirty too quickly (probably a good move). Noorda spent days underground, mapping foot traffic to figure out exactly where to put the signs, and how many--or how few--were really needed.
Bob Noorda, who redesigned the New York City subway system with Massimo Vignelli, died earlier this month. Noorda and Vignelli founded Unimark International in 1965 (Noorda was based in Milan, Vignelli in Chicago), the firm you can blame, or credit, with making Helvetica one of the most widely used typefaces on earth. "Don't bore the public with mysterious designs," Noorda said, and so we have his 1966 New York subway signage, as simple as it gets, and still in use today.
An obituary by Steve Heller in The New York Times points out that Noorda's original plan was for black letters on white signs, but the Mta thought they'd get dirty too quickly (probably a good move). Noorda spent days underground, mapping foot traffic to figure out exactly where to put the signs, and how many--or how few--were really needed.
- 1/25/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
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