China
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Non recyclable symbol
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360buy.com brick and mortar branches
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1 min read
360buy.com, commonly known as the Chinese equivalent to Amazon holds several brach offices across the country where you can go to get your online purchased items. The retailer invests vasts quantities of money in logistics and customer support. Feel odd to go someplace and get something previously purchased online. I guess solve many “last mile”…
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Pattern recognition in branding
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Is Gucci selling rubber carpets?. Read carefully, it says Gucgi. But that doesn’t matter very much to your brain, at least at first glance. Seen on a Taxi on Tianjin, China.
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Designed chaos in architecture
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2 min read
It’s taken for granted that order makes our life easier. And it’s also better known that shopping malls are created so that you have to walk a little bit to come across shops while you seek for the next escalators. What really surprised me was to know that some malls are designed to get us…
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Expectation gap
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Expectation gap between what you think you will find in a drugstore and what you actually run into.
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Quantitative differences
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Almost imposible to understand the quantitative differences in minutes between one sandwatch and another. The Indication should say: “5 minutes walk to the farthest boarding gate plus 5 minutes more to fully understand this graph”. Seen on Beijing’s old airport.
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Understability is overrated
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1 min read
Hieroglyphics are so fun…
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Selection process in the absence of hierarchy
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1 min read
Just try to pick one. Seen on a tech market in Hong Kong.
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Unexpected objets
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1 min read
I’ll call it a hatbrella. Seen in Hong Kong.
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