New Design: Los Angeles : The Edge of Graphic Design

The "New Design" series celebrates some of the finest new graphic design talents each featured city has to offer. This city-by-city tour is the insider's guide to dozens of design firms that are making an impact on the industry.

Selected by designers for designers, the work in these pages reveals what makes graphic design tick in the city of Los Angeles. Fresh, new, and filled with vitality, this is a valuable collection for all design enthusiasts, from advertising and media aficionados, to artists, educators, student, and all those with a strong interest in contemporary graphic design.

Designers and studios featured in this book include Jeffery Keedy ("Mr. Keedy"), Geoff Kaplan, Anne Burdick, Denise Gonzales Crisp (Super Stove!), cow., Visual Asylum, April Greiman (Greimanski Labs), Meryl Pollen, Cole Gerst, Alexei Tylevich, and many others.

Edward M Gomez's background is in philosophy and design. Currently based in New York, he is a former cultural correspondent for TIME in New York, Paris, and Tokyo, and senior editor of "Metropolitan Home". A contributing editor of "Art & Antiques" magazine, Gomez has also written on art and design for the "New York Times", "Metropolis", "ARTnews", the "Japan Times", "Cond Nast Traveler", "eye", and "Raw Vision". He is one of the contributing authors of "Le dictionnaire de la civilisation japonaise" (Hazan Editions).