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An illustration comparing two elevated parks. On the left, a green background and orange arches are topped with greenery and the text “coulée verte”. On the right, a blue background and grey industrial pillars are topped with plants and the text “high line”.

Paris and New York head-to-head in visual form thanks to Vahram Muratyan

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Date
16 April 2012

Perhaps predictably, Paris and New York are two of our favourite cities, filled as they are with some of the world’s greatest sights. For the last few years, New York-based designer (and Paris lover) Vahram Muratyan has been pitting the pair against each other via his blog, which features wonderfully colourful and graphically playful homages to each city. The visuals have just been published in book form, too – perfect for a coffee table in any city.

A graphic illustration split into two vertical panels of yellow and orange. The left side is labelled “pâtisserie” and shows a stylised cake with layers of cream and gold. The right side is labelled “pastrami” and depicts a sandwich with a seeded bun and layers of pink meat.
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Vahram Muratyan: Paris Versus New York

A split illustration comparing two designers. On the left, a figure representing Karl Lagerfeld stands atop a tall green pillar against a cream background, with the text “karl” and “rue Cambon”. On the right, a large cream-coloured spotlight beams across a dark blue city skyline, with the text “marc” and “Bleecker street”.
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Vahram Muratyan: Paris Versus New York

A blue graphic split into two panels. The left shows the Eiffel Tower with the date “1889”, and the right shows the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty with the date “1886”.
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Vahram Muratyan: Paris Versus New York

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Alex Moshakis

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Alex originally joined It’s Nice That as a designer but moved into editorial and oversaw the It’s Nice That magazine from Issue Six (July 2011) to Issue Eight (March 2012) before moving on that summer.

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