Agustín Jiménez

Observations about tech, design and people. Since 2010.

Espacios públicos

  • Strong individuals, weak species

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    Signs to avoid dirty hands at Boqueria Market in Barcelona. In terms of natural selection what makes us strong as individuals, makes us weak as a specie.

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  • Target

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    Milk advertisements are usually targeted towards childhood. Not this one.

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  • Design for obedience

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    “Don’t stop. Continue and fill the rest of the platform”. Obey the master. Period. Seen in Seville subway.

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  • Elements of distraction

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    Seen in Madrid.

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  • People container

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    Shanghai’s huge train station.

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  • Power to the people, abandoned parking meters

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    Some days ago I found this unused parking meter near a comercial area in Beijing. It was installed about 5 years ago, but for nothing. I was told that car owners didn’t know how to use it, and didn’t care about the whole thing. Now it stands as a testimony of the locals slipshod sense…

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  • Double cheking

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    This is a lift calling deck, with nonsense duplicated buttons. Remember me the double checking problem some people experiment. Seen in Glory Mall, Beijing

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  • Non recyclable symbol

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  • Designed chaos in architecture

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    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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  • 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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