Hosting mb's first-ever L.A. design party, held in conjunction with AIGA Los Angeles' monthly Club AIGA event, was our own UnBeige blogger Alissa Walker. Along with her, L.A. designers and art mavens in the know (read: a highly hip crowd of L.A. creatives) took advantage of the free macaroni—yes, you read correctly: FREE MACARONI—at SoCal hot spot Citizen Smith.

At Citizen Smith, April 27, 2006

Photos by Jessica Brooks

mb hostess and Unbeige blogger Alissa Walker, Coralie Langston, Lorenzo Apicella and freelancer and mb instructor Chrys Wu

Crowd shot

Service owner Mike Sy, Center for Web Design Study project manager Sharon Tani, Tu Ciudad photo editor Bailey Franklin and Tu Ciudad art director Tom O'Quinn

Workbook print producer Larry Galpan, Point editor-in-chief Paul Gachot and Peninsula Publishing art director Coco Lloyd

Alissa Walker speaks to the group

Architectural photographer Barry Schwartz, Merle Norman art director Lisa Tauber, Live 4 Art director Helen Morgan and Shoolery Design, Inc. graphic designer Anna Hudson

Designer Tracy Bolton, CurtCo Media senior marketing art director Jae Yang, Tokyo Farm owner Spencer Cross and designer Nat Boher

Cantoni Designs designer Janelle Hipwell and Cantoni Designs designer Jay Haen

Chrome Hearts art director Martin Withrow, 24x7 art director Mark Strassner, Ergo Sun president Daniel Taccenelli and Muscle & Fitness art director Michael Touna

Photographer Silamith Quirin and photographer Nick Fahey

Graphic designer Holly Strother, Variety designer Jen Blatz and Made In Space graphic designer Lucy Cook

Barry Schwartz and Kent Studios graphic designer William Kent

Graphic designer Jennnifer Wickenkamp and architectural photographer Lawrence Anderson

Citizen Smith