Vacation Eye Candy from Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende
Mexico City gets a bad rap with the media reporting mostly on drug cartels and crime. What you don’t hear about is that this ancient empire is a massive, modern, thriving metropolis bustling with inexpensive markets, exquisite food, exciting cultural events, and charming architecture. Its streets are full of color and excitement—a designer’s paradise.
Take a look…you’ll want to book your tickets ASAP!
Street markets and food…
Mexican food reinvented at Pujol
Drinks at the Rosewood Hotel in San Miguel are a must. The views are spectacular!
The colorful doorways and street typography…
And Downtown Hotel, the perfect oasis in Mexico City.
Vanessa Dina
Design Director
Vanessa Dina
Vanessa Dina is a Design Director at Chronicle Books with a passion for all things food and drink. When she’s not designing cookbooks she can be found cooking from them and sharing the results with her family and friends.
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Ryan Biddulph February 9, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Vanessa I love the first image! What a playful meld of color, shapes and hell, what a great shot lol.
Well said on Mexico City too, because we’ve found this to be the case with towns and cities all over the world. In Bali now but we’re thinking Mexico next and will visit MC. Why? Because headlines paint negatives and we know most of the time in most of these areas life is safe, and beautiful. We lived in Thailand during the coup. If you trust CNN you’d believe we were in a war zone, when the only difference for us was that it meant no late night 7-11 trips, due to the curfew.
Keep up the great work Vanessa!
Ryan
Pamela Day-Lewis February 10, 2015 at 5:54 am
I love those stools – too fun.
Kika February 10, 2015 at 8:22 am
So wonderful to see one of my favorite places through such a talented designer’s eye!