Andrew Hurvitz

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• Posted Classic Old Signs to LAist
  I'm not a sign maker, so maybe what I'm about to say is simplistic or misguided. But the old, classic neon scripted signs that decorate so many pre-WWII buildings are remarakably elegant....and don't look all that difficult to replicate. "Chinese" "Cinegrill" "Roosevelt"...all these electric signs instantly give an identity that is historical, regional and aesthetic. Part of what makes them so magical is that they also defer, ever so politely, to the buildings on...
• Posted I'm not a Cat Lover, but... to LAist
  One of the attributes of a cat is that it does not bark. Our neighborhood, paranoid about crime, is home to dozens of large, loud barking dogs. Some of them bark when you are reading a book quietly in the yard, or at 2:30am when you are deep asleep, or at 6am before you want to wake up when the sun is just rising.
• Posted The Can-Do Spirit of Malaysia. to LAist
  Photos by: Kazuo Lim Khee Boon Malaysia is a country of some 20 million people in Southeast Asia. In the last seven years, they have built an extensive monorail system around their capital, Kuala Lumpur. The website of the KL Monorail sums up its attributes: "The RM1.18 billion KL Monorail privatisation project is an inner-city public transit system that serves the central business, hotel and shopping district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . The 8.6km...
• Posted Bring Back the Old License Plate! to LAist
  I love old cars and old license plates. Imagine driving this 1956 Mercedes 190 SL convertible on a deserted stretch of the Sepulveda Pass at 4am in 1956, before there was a freeway, before seat belts, before road rage.... Think about the old California license plate that might have been screwed into this car. It would have clear black letters on top of a school bus yellow background. You could read it, even when...
• Posted Thom Browne: a New Direction for Men? to LAist
  Photo used with the permission of: Kikuko Usuyama KCRW radio’s Elvis Mitchell interviewed men’s designer Thom Browne today. Browne has introduced a silhouette of finely tailored, floodwater high trouser bottoms and too small suit jacket that are custom made in his NYC studio for up to $3,000.00 Browne talked about how “guys are dressing up again” and “how great people looked in the 50’s and 60’s” and “this is for young men who want...