Category Archives: Travel

Le Cool Gone Digital

Le Cool‘s “Weird and Wonderful Guide to Barcelona” is probably the best travel guide I’ve ever encountered. Back in 2007, I found the first edition of the guide and I knew I got to have it for our trip to… Continue reading

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La Cuina d’en Garriga in Barcelona

Few days ago I came across this post on Mr & Miss Colors, and right away I recognized that we’ve been to the same shop in Barcelona last year! It’s a small, lovely grocery/restaurant that is well designed, from branding, packaging,… Continue reading

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BC Lakes

It was a long weekend this past week in BC. Poan took me to Whistler for a mini retreat. On the first day, we stopped at Brohm Lake near Squamish. The parking lot was packed, but we were lucky enough… Continue reading

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Gladstone Hotel

This is where I stayed during my visit to Toronto last week. Gladstone Hotel has 37 unique rooms all designed by artists. Our room is called Model Citizen, designed by Julian Finkel. It’s a peacock-themed room. Pretty crazy eh? Peacock… Continue reading

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Piazza del Campo

Piazza del Campo – the magnificent square in Siena, Italy – is one of my favourite places in Tuscany. I’ve visited it twice already, and I’d still love to go back again if I go to Italy. I took these… Continue reading

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French Poster

This is a random poster I found in a restaurant in Paris. The style is so casual, simple, but so “right” for its content (not that I understand French). Awesomeness.

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ling Magazine

ling is an inflight magazine for Vueling, a Spanish low-cost airline that serves destinations in Europe and the western Mediterranean. Vueling probably has the best brand identity design of all the airlines I’ve taken. From luggage tag (I even brought one extra home),… Continue reading

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Roman Forum

I remember that I used to hate history class. Back in the junior high school years in Taiwan, we had to study the history of China, Taiwan, and the Western world, as if five thousand years of the Chinese history… Continue reading

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Paper Graffiti

Do you see anything in the picture? This was taken last summer when we were wandering in Montmarte, Paris. I like how street art like this can be overlooked so easily, yet it always sparks a little bit of surprise… Continue reading

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Climbing Haleakalā

Climbing up (or down) Haleakalā volcano in Maui was one of the toughest activities I’ve ever done. Not because of the trail condition, but because of the high altitude (10,000 ft.) that made it so hard to breath. Going down was… Continue reading

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Typography & Signage in Barcelona

It was such a treat whenever I found a nicely designed signage in Barcelona, and there were many of them. Even in the Cathedral, the signs were plain lovely. I just love how different typefaces are mixed on the same… Continue reading

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Italian Pizza

I miss the pizza in Italy. After my trip to Italy last summer, I don’t think the pizza we have here can compare with the authentic Italian pizza. I love that their pizza can taste so good with just a… Continue reading

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The Week in Boisbuchet II

This is a closeup of our macrolettering project in Boisbuchet. See that big balloon? That’s what we used to fly the GoPro camera up and film the work from above. In the evening after we completed the project, we lighted… Continue reading

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Hidden Textures – Barcelona

Aren’t these hidden gems? Sometimes they’re just around the corner, or underneath you. You just gotta look carefully.

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The Week in Boisbuchet

Domain de Boisbuchet is where I went for a design boot camp last summer.

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