citylikeyou — Paris / Tom Moglu

Tom Moglu is a UK artist based in France, working in abstract paper collage. He has moved around in the last few years via Bristol-London-Cornwall-Berlin-Norfolk and Paris, looking at floors, doors and shores and picking up scrap paper along the way. His background as a painter, model animator, and illustrator informs the balance, colour and tactile nature of the collages. He is currently starting to branch out into ceramics, print and textiles.

http://www.moglu.co.uk

Artist

Current city: Paris

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Paris / Restaurant

Great Vietnamese labyrinthine restaurant, with huge, filling plates for under €10. My girlfriend has been eating here since she was in the womb.

Paris / Canal

Very popular in the warm days, deserted at night, frozen in winter. I grew up with canals and long walks along them, so it's nice to do the same here.

Paris / Shop

The most fantastic selection of old toys and kid's memorabilia, better than a museum. Is there every version of every action figure ever made? I've received gifts of a 1950s Peter Pan penknife and an original ET ring from here, so now some lucky friends get presents from the huge range.

Paris / Bar

Messy, busy, mangled, cheap, friendly and relaxed bar in Belleville. Unchanged for years, just layered with tags, stickers, laquered beer spillage and cigarette ash; but bright and light at the same time.

Paris / Shop

Nameless pink shop run by a talkative redheaded Piaf who handpicks and sells allsorts of things from the 1950s - 70s - furniture, clothes, sunglasses, lamps. Unpretentious and priced correctly.

Paris / Shop

There's a few secondhand clothes stores in Paris, but always immaculately selected, expensive and fashionable. Guerrisol however is a huge, dirt cheap jumble sale. Stock seems to rotate daily in each of their four stores, and prices fluctuate on the hour. Sifting through endless rails of synthetic jackets at €3 can suddenly reveal a hidden gem.

Paris / Place

A grubby, ugly and grey crossroads, yet strangely beautiful by the evening sun. It always makes me happy when I pass through because ten minutes walk in any direction leads to some of my favourite places: the best fromager, thrift stores, the best boulangerie for tartes, the canal, bars, my apartment, B.D. (comix) shops, the best butcher, the huge deco Rex cinema, the best veg markets, my band's underground rehearsal room, my part time job, art galleries, etc etc!

Paris / Photographer

Travel Photographer

Paris / Designer

Worldwide freelancer

Paris / Illustrator

Illustrator / Animator

Paris / Graphic Designer

Toan Vu-Huu was born and raised in Germany where he graduated at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt–Faculty of Design. He entered a five years' work experience at the design studio Intégral Ruedi Baur and associates and was responsible for projects such as the Cologne-Bonn Airport and La Cinémathèque Française. In 2005 he started his own design studio and took on teaching typography, visual identity and editorial design at EnsAD (National School for higher studies of applied arts, Paris). In 2008 he forms the studio baldinger•vu-huu in partnership with André Baldinger which spans a wide range of design: Type design, visual identity, signage systems, web sites, film, animation, exhibitions, editorial and poster design. The studio focuses mainly on cultural and public space. Toan is member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Paris / Designer

Peter Schäfer is a Designer from Germany, who currently lives in Paris. A city like a tight, snobby sinkhole with an ancient absorbing charm of generations of legendary artists, energetic places, fantastic Pain au chocolat and fashion.

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