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Random notes on design, interfaces, signs, urban ideas, words, etc. mainly from Amsterdam streets but not only. Plus random linguistic notes. Plus current affairs in business and art.
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No baloons at the escalator | Schiphol 2017
All the traffic lights have numbers written on them. The digits before the dot is the group, the digit after is the sequence number inside it. In the game group, lights are synchronized | Amstlvn 2017
In Amsterdam the last digit is not separated by the dot though | Amsterdam 2017
An alert about the traffic issues on the ring road around Amsterdam. Notice how the cross is used. It is one of those from xxx, the logo of Amsterdam and it means „closed road“ here. | Amsterdam 2017
Temporary trash bins in the centre of Amsterdam | 2017
Police evacuating the bike | Amsterdam 2011
«Sort your waste» sign | Autoroute du Nord, France 2013
Tree eaters | Amsterdam 2017
The „Torenzicht“ project of a house that is built around the church bell tower. The church itself is demolished and the new building with luxury apartments is being built. | Halfweg 2017
Many small companies fully pause businesses and close their offices for the summer vacations. This is a door of a hair-dressing salon, for example. | Haarlem 2017
This is what a design with no labels can lead to | Amsterdam 2016
Quite a few Dutch abbreviations on one picture: p.k. = per kilo, p.s. = per stuk (per piece), p.b. = per bundel | Amsterdam 2016
«Attention! Swings out», actually bot a very common sign on big vehicles | Halfweg 2017
The Leidseplein in the centre of Amsterdam is under reconstruction for months. This sign aims to help finding the temporary bus stops. The guys below look according to the arrows :-) | Amsterdam 2017
The http://vananaarbeter.nl site offers an up-to-date state of the road issues, closed segments, etc. Today, the limit of the requests to the external map service was exceeded, obviously. | 2017
An already historical photo. Ikea introduced very cheap breakfast sets, which they had to cancel soon because of morning traffic jams caused by people coming to have a bite. | Amsterdam 2014
„Koffie verkeerd,“ translated as „wrong coffee“ or „errorneous coffee,“ is a typical Dutch name for coffee with a good portion of milk. | Haarlem 2017
This is a social ad of being aware of pocket pickers appeared before the forthcoming gay pride. https://www.amsterdam.nl/pickpocket/ | Amsterdam 2017