2024-12-20T12:06:54-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/13033723/information-center-for-little-tokyo-design-week-future-city Archinect 2011-07-11T19:55:11-04:00 >2011-07-12T11:45:48-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e2nfvpybwhaufnr7.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> LA architecture office <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/106366/inaba-inc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">INABA</a> and NYC graphic designers <a href="http://www.mtwtf.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MTWTF</a> have shared with us their design for the information center for <a href="http://www.ltdesignweek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City</em></a>. The festival, which opens this Thursday, July 14, celebrates the intersection of Japanese design and technology with experimental architecture in Southern California. The event in Los Angeles&rsquo; Little Tokyo will feature exhibitions, panel discussions, and other public activities that explore future approaches to urbanism.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/fx/fxm8fcd269dd9odz.jpg"></p> <p> The information center displays a video that introduces the festival and which features participating designers and scholars. The exterior of INABA and MTWTF&rsquo;s project borrows graphic elements of the <em>LTDW</em> theme logo to create a new font. The word &lsquo;info&rsquo; is spelled out and repeated as a black and white pattern on three sides. Along the two long interior walls letters of the info font are scaled up into a large graphic that appears to change in form and color as the visitor moves through the space.</p> <p> ...</p>