Category: Other Cities

Found Type: Huntington Beach

Posted on by Hijiri

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:

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Cool graphic. These were everywhere on the street.

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Huntington Beach bench :: HB

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No smoking, No bicycle, No skateboard:

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There was this huge Pelican watching the beach…

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Ruby’s Surf City Diner: love the colors!

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sometimes, graphics are all you need:

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Chopping board:

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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.

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Lots of cool colors around the beach, it’s very eye catching.

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Rusty sign:

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Love this yellow on yellow blind emboss types, too…

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It is July 1st today! Yes, summer is here!

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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My Embarcadero Shot

Posted on by Hijiri

When I was back in San Francisco last October, I went around the city and took as many pictures as I could – and this shot of Embarcadero center made it to Schmap San Francisco Guide!!

Do you see that it says “Photo: Hijiri K. Shepherd”? I feel like I’m a little photographer now!

Schmap Guide is an online travel guides and they have lots of city guides from all over the world. If you are traveling somewhere and you want to explore the city before or during your stay, I would suggest looking around Schmap guide. They have a desktop version and a phone version, too!

Thank you so much, Schmap Guide people, for including my photo!