Located in the heart of downtown's Arts District, The Factory is an exhibition space produced by Fabrik Magazine, the quarterly magazine of and guidebook to art and design in Southern California. Through The Factory the magazine is able to present the public with new dimensions in art and design and provide exposure to the work of visionary creatives working across diverse fields of contemporary art, design and architecture.

The Factory manifests the new spirit of art and its presentation in the early 21st Century. In the Internet age, retail structures like art galleries and design stores are being supplemented by more flexible access modes, and are changing in response to a newly discerning audience and newly demanding clientele. The Factory is as much an event in itself as a locale for events, as much of a show as it is a showroom, an active rather than a passive space. Perhaps more importantly, The Factory is a locus for “going with the flow,” that is, going with – and promoting – the flow that we increasingly sense between the utilitarian design object and the discrete artwork.

In this respect The Factory embodies the goals of its parent publication, and like Fabrik Magazine, The Factory is a major place to discover emerging talents working in, and between, visual art forms, including design.

The integration of art into life, a leitmotif of the avant garde for over a hundred years, is translated in Fabrik Magazine and at The Factory into the integration of art, through design, into living.