Observations about people, tech and design.
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 for authority.
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” things.
Seen in Beijing, Haidian district.
Expectation gap between what you think you will find in a drugstore and what you actually run into.
Just try to pick one.
Seen on a tech market in Hong Kong.
I’ll call it a hatbrella. Seen in Hong Kong.
Más de 50.000 metros cuadrados de comercios y restaurantes frente a un directorio ejemplarmente claro. En el South Village de Sanlitun en Pekín es muy fácil moverse. Y no sólo al usar el directorio de comercios, la cualidad quizás más destacable es que cada edificio es distinto. Cada esquina tiene distancias y ángulos característicos por lo que aún de noche es intuitivo conocer tu ubicación. Fué diseñado por el estudio de arquitectos The Oval Partnership.
Es fantástico observar como un objeto hace “pop-up” cuando es ligeramente distinto a la serie que lo contiene. ¿Hasta qué punto juega un papel decisivo este efecto en nuestras decisiones de compra?.
Foto tomada en Harbin.
