The very Soviet practice of mounting street signs on buildings rather than on poles – wayfinding geared up to the needs of pedestrians more than …



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The use of the Turkmenistan flag on the license plate, a bumper with history.
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Pedestrian crossing with support for the blind – issues a sharp tak-tak-tak whilst it’s green for pedestrians.
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That passport photo that you’re embarrassed to share with friends? That’s now open to public consumption thanks to Chinese immigration. All passports are scanned as …
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For every colour an association: orange denotes cooked eggs – with a small bag of salt off to one side.
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A Japanese phone user (in the shadows, center) conducts a call facing the wall – the body language of making a phone call. The pockets …
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The method of attaching street signs to poles doesn’t easily support two signs to be horizontally aligned. Wonderful example of a design decision becoming part …
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Early morning jaunt through in Berlin
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Just some of ~dozen ATMs in Austin’s 6th Street bar area – certainly the densest sustained row of cash machines I’ve come across anywhere in …
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The articulated freshness of food, where you can see what you;re about to eat prior to it being killed, is a feature of Asian cuisine …
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