Agustín Jiménez

Observations about tech, design and people. Since 2010.

Reflexiones

  • 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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  • Preserve it

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    In China it’s common that many objets keep parts of its original package. Adhesive films, cardboards and foams are everywhere. Is this carelessness or a true will for preservation?. I’m not quite sure.

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  • Chopped tube

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    These ketchup packs made me think about the previous shapes of objects. We are surrounded by things with an evolution history. Few of them are created and used as raw, without hard modification. Even the simplest materials requires some treatment.

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  • Chased by brands

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    You’ve surely noticed that when browsing the web some ads are closely related to your previous visits to certain pages. Even if that happened days ago. Online behavior tracking have been there for some time, and boost sales enormously for an online retail business -just to mention one-. How do you feel about that?. It’s obvious…

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  • Universal signs

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    AIGA alike sign in a ferry. Easily understood despite not been able to read chinese characters. I wonder how many signs (or combinations) are we familiar with due to repeated exposition during the years.

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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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  • 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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    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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