Design

MOCA's Controversial L.A. Architecture Exhibit Is Sprawling, Confusing and Beautiful

Sometimes architects are compared to artists. But often the closest counterpart to what an architect does is not that of an artist, but a screenwriter. A friend of mine, a sculptor, once pointed out that filmmaking is "art by committee." And so, can be, architecture. The client, like the director o ... More >>

Machine Project's Oddball Take on L.A. Architecture, From a Helicopter Experiment to the Spirit of Whitney Houston

Kevin Bradley's Church of Type Brings Typography Worship to Santa Monica

"I never intended to come [to Los Angeles]," says Kevin Bradley, founder of the letterpress design and print studio Church of Type, which opened this Sunday on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica. "I was going to New Orleans," Bradley continues as his intern works the Vandercook Universal III letterpre ... More >>

Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview

See also: *Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry & the L.A. Architects Who Changed Everything *Schindler House's Exhibit About How We Travel *Moby: L.A. Architecture's New Mascot Neutra, Gehry, Schindler, Eames -- they're all included in the Getty Institute's initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Arc ... More >>

A park like no other

Hammer Museum Examines the Evolution of Graphic Design

Graphic design isn't just about a poster with pretty colors. In today's world of visual media, it affects way we choose our clothes and what food we eat. The Hammer brings out everything from modern gadgets (lots of Mac products) to old-school methods (markers!) in its new exhibit "Graphic Design: ... More >>

Design Loves Art

Cooper Black: The Story Behind Louie's Typeface

An overweight balding man exits a subway station and, as he walks, up pops his name in bold, cartoonish, drop-shadowed white letters: Louie. He stands alone in the doorway of a pizza parlor inhaling a slice, his eyes searching and expressionless, watching people pass by as people watch him, an urban ... More >>

Art Students Blow Up the Blue Whale

Lost in the Blue Whale

Cirque Du Soleil Costumes

Jonathan Gold Reviews Ray's at LACMA

Graffiti Crossword: Eine Paints LA Weekly Building

Shannon Cottrell​ The street artist Eine, in town for MOCA's "Art in the Streets" show, was looking for a place to paint, and, well, LA Weekly answered the call. The piece, which occupies the outside of our Sepulveda Blvd.-facing wall, took almost a week to complete, as challenges included pai ... More >>

Helvetica Tramp Stamps, Cookies & Baby Onesies: 9 Unexpected Uses For A Typeface

Helvetica is the font--excuse me, typeface--that won't quit. We see it everywhere (remember Gary Hustwit's documentary film Helvetica?). Here, in order of ascending awesomeness, are nine excellent and hilarious takes on the typeface to rule all typefaces. 9. Metallica Helvetica I'd like to see th ... More >>

Scenic View Ahead: The Westways Cover Art Program, 1928-1981

Severed Limbs, The Font: Mimi Traillette's Twisted Typeface

​ Mimi Traillette, 29, is an artist living in Montreal, Canada. She made this font, inspired by severed limbs. It was for a design contest at DesignSponge. She did not win. Why aren't the limbs dripping blood? Did you think about blood at all?

Suzanne Rheinstein

The 1000 Journals Project

Deliscript: A Font Inspired by Canter's Deli

Michael Doret​ In 2008, Michael Doret drove past Canter's Deli, but instead of lox and bagel chips, the ambitious designer found the long-awaited inspiration for his latest font: Deliscript. "Perhaps it was that mid century marquee vibe that called out to me," he explains, "but at any rate I ... More >>

Cart For a Cause Truck at Pacific Design Center Today, with Il Grano Chef Salvatore Marino

N. GalutenCart For a Cause is at the Pacific Design Center today​ Today you get another chance to have lunch cooked by a top level L.A. chef at a very reasonable discount, with the additional bonus that all proceeds go to charity. The Cart For a Cause truck is parking outside the Pacific Desi ... More >>

Screening and Q&A with Atom Egoyan

Mad Men Discussion and Fashion Show

First Fridays

FRANK TALK ABOUT MUSIC

Film Costumes

Photography Exhibit

Architecture Exhibit

Photographer: Julius Shulman 1910 - 2009

Function and Imagination at Human Scale

TV Costume Exhibit

LET'S BE FRANK

Red Ink Dept.: L.A. Times to Drop Letter "A" in Headlines

In a move widely seen as an attempt to save on ink and paper costs, the L.A. Times has begun to eliminate the letter "A" from its print-edition headlines, replacing it with "O." The change will apparently be phased in gradually and today took the form of South Bay Congresswoman Jane Harman's last na ... More >>

L.A. -- It's Just Like New York!

LACMA Free Community Weekend

2007 in the Rearview Mirror

Whoops, there goes another theater year

LEEDing the Pack

Why our green standards might not be green enough

EDUCATION RESOURCE GUIDE

Kyoto Decadence

When it opens this weekend, Rob Marshall's adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha will already be trailing a long stream of scandal: the Japanese community is up in arms because the three female leads are played by Chinese actresses (admittedly a bit perplexing), and a certain faction of militant Chinese ... More >>

No Finer Place for Sure

Everything’s waiting for you downtown

Architecture As a Contact Sport

L.A.’s Thom Mayne wins Pritzker Prize

The City in Motion

L.A.’s hyperactive graphics scene

WeHo Voices

Bunkum Hill

Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

Makeover 2

Photos by Larry Hirshowitz

Makeover 3

Photos by Jack Gould

Full Mental Jacket

Light and Open

The Schindler House searches for a perfect neighbor

This Year's Modern

Inside/Outside

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler and Shaping the Great City

Monsters Galore

The 19th Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards