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Recently we took a trip to Los Angeles. Being a staunch Northern Californian I was raised to think of LA as a soul-less wasteland of smog and cars (sorry!), but every time I go I discover something new and interesting. This time around we took in some of the region’s architecture<\/a> (of which I took terrible pictures for some reason), including the Petersen Automotive Museum<\/a>. <\/p>\n Not being a big car person I wasn’t sure what to expect, but my favorite thing about this museum turned out to be the montage of photos Pixar designers took on their cross-country road trip to get ideas for the look of the original Cars<\/em><\/a> movie. As a designer, I love how obsessively they research every detail, even things that don’t ultimately make it into the final movie. Similarly, Josh Holtsclaw has a great post on his site about the look they created for The Incredibles<\/em> films<\/a>, including complete branding packages for entities like the hotel where the Parr family stays.<\/p>\n Since I was reading Susan Orlean’s fascinating The Library Book<\/a><\/em> at the time (and because I’m a library nerd), I also got interested in the history of the LA Central Library building<\/a>, which led me to the Los Angeles Conservancy<\/a> (check out their walking tours) and their amazing branding package created by the design firm YYES<\/a>. There’s also a nice case study about the rebranding, which features ultra-simple, interchangeable icons of iconic LA buildings, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I love it when travel not only provides a break from the daily routine, but also opens up my eyes to new design ideas. What travel destination inspires you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently we took a trip to Los Angeles. Being a staunch Northern Californian I was raised to think of LA as a soul-less wasteland of smog and cars (sorry!), but every time I go I discover something new and interesting. This time around we took in some of the region’s architecture (of which I took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[126,57,128,127],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graphic-design","tag-inspiration","tag-library","tag-other-designers","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}