#77 Travelogue Uzbekistan: More than just water
There’s a peculiar design of water bottles in Uzbekistan that seems like it’s from the same brand, but actually all are made by different companies. What’s going on there?
Copying
Why come up with something new when you don’t know if it works? Copying gives you that sense of security. It's even a compliment for the original – it’s so good that it is copied.
Conventions
When products look alike then customers will also recognise them more easily. Like in the UK for instance full cream milk has a blue lid, semi-skimmed milk a green lid and skimmed milk a red lid.
Collectivism
Ultimately this is a deeper cultural pattern – one of valuing sameness rather than difference. Both producers and customers depend on the judgment of others and want to feel that they are normal.
It’s not just water bottles. It’s also chocolate bars, fake shampoos, numbers on pharmacies or naming shops after famous brands, to name just a few.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
There’s a peculiar design of water bottles in Uzbekistan that seems like it’s from the same brand, but actually all are made by different companies. What’s going on there?
Copying
Why come up with something new when you don’t know if it works? Copying gives you that sense of security. It's even a compliment for the original – it’s so good that it is copied.
Conventions
When products look alike then customers will also recognise them more easily. Like in the UK for instance full cream milk has a blue lid, semi-skimmed milk a green lid and skimmed milk a red lid.
Collectivism
Ultimately this is a deeper cultural pattern – one of valuing sameness rather than difference. Both producers and customers depend on the judgment of others and want to feel that they are normal.
It’s not just water bottles. It’s also chocolate bars, fake shampoos, numbers on pharmacies or naming shops after famous brands, to name just a few.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
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#77 Travelogue Uzbekistan: More than just water There’s a peculiar design of water bottles in Uzbekistan that seems like it’s from the same brand, but actually all are made by different companies. What’s going on there? Copying Why come up with something…
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📍peculiar = strange in an interesting way 📍come up with sth = have an idea 📍convention = how sth is normally done, unwritten rule of doing sth 📍full cream milk = milk with 3.5% fat as is natural 📍semi-skimmed milk = milk with less fat, usually around 2% 📍skimmed milk = low-fat milk with only 1 or 1.5% fat 📍lid = the top of a bottle or jar 📍collectivism = value of togetherness and sameness, ‘culture of the East’, opposite of individualism 📍ultimately = in the end, at the end of the day 📍pattern = regular way in which sth happens 📍value sth = appreciate sth, treasure sth
📍peculiar = strange in an interesting way 📍come up with sth = have an idea 📍convention = how sth is normally done, unwritten rule of doing sth 📍full cream milk = milk with 3.5% fat as is natural 📍semi-skimmed milk = milk with less fat, usually around 2% 📍skimmed milk = low-fat milk with only 1 or 1.5% fat 📍lid = the top of a bottle or jar 📍collectivism = value of togetherness and sameness, ‘culture of the East’, opposite of individualism 📍ultimately = in the end, at the end of the day 📍pattern = regular way in which sth happens 📍value sth = appreciate sth, treasure sth
Should product design be protected by law?
Anonymous Poll
72%
Yes, stealing ideas is just as wrong as stealing things.
19%
Maybe, but for small things like water bottles.
9%
No, there’s nothing wrong with copying design.
#96 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi paying tribute to the great Baroque composer Haendel (1685-1759) in Halle, Germany
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▶️ East and West have some serious cultural differences that come to the surface in many situations of daily life. Check out these pictures originally made by a Chinese graphic designer living in Germany. For your convenience, the titles are translated to English and Uzbek.
There’s a whole bunch of pictures, today let’s look at five of them.
See Part 1 and Part 2.
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▶️ East and West have some serious cultural differences that come to the surface in many situations of daily life. Check out these pictures originally made by a Chinese graphic designer living in Germany. For your convenience, the titles are translated to English and Uzbek.
There’s a whole bunch of pictures, today let’s look at five of them.
See Part 1 and Part 2.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #infographic
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#8 Short Film: Night On Earth – Paris
▶️ Here’s one sequence of the movie “Night on Earth” from 1991. The movie is about weird, nocturnal (=in the night) encounters (=sb meeting sb) between taxi drivers and their customers in different cities.
🔤 The film is in 🇫🇷French with English subtitles.
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▶️ Here’s one sequence of the movie “Night on Earth” from 1991. The movie is about weird, nocturnal (=in the night) encounters (=sb meeting sb) between taxi drivers and their customers in different cities.
🔤 The film is in 🇫🇷French with English subtitles.
👉@afandi_english👈 #short_film
#120 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Armiyaga borganingizda, vazn yo'qotishingiz mumkin.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
When you go to army you may lose your weight.
✅ Well, it should be:
When you go to the army you may lose weight.
❓Why?
❗️ Like the government, we can assume that there is only one army in one country. That’s why we should use the definite article the before army.
❗️ Lose your weight sounds like you’re losing all of it. That wouldn’t be good. You can either lose some weight or just lose weight, without the determiner.
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▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Armiyaga borganingizda, vazn yo'qotishingiz mumkin.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
When you go to army you may lose your weight.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️ Like the government, we can assume that there is only one army in one country. That’s why we should use the definite article the before army.
❗️ Lose your weight sounds like you’re losing all of it. That wouldn’t be good. You can either lose some weight or just lose weight, without the determiner.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar