yaean design shanghai: blog > articles from October, 2009

Today I am forty two. Tomorrow I'm... ?

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Above is the sign for a shop called "blur" on Julu Lu. Below in the first image you get on a Google Image Search for "blur logo".

(Takes deep breath and sighs.)

Good to see originality is alive and well.

blur are a popular band from the UK. Visit the real blur

Here's the thing: this lack of originality is not even blinked at. If, indeed, it is even noticed since blur are not so well known in China. It's just laziness on the part of the ripoff-artist that made the sign and cheapness on the part of the shop…

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Chair Pants. Oh yes! Infomerical on Vimeo and embedded below.

Chair Pants from The Weakshop on Vimeo.

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Brilliant a cappella rendition of You're Gonna Miss Me with only hand claps and empty soup pots as accompaniment. Embbed from YouTube below.

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All the episodes of "Design for Life", the BBC's version of Britain's Got Talent/Dragon's Den for designers, are now on Vimeo. Handy for those of us whose eyeball geography does not meet with the beeb's approval. Links below.

• Design For Life: Episode 1
• Design For Life: Episode 2
• Design For Life: Episode 3
• Design For Life: Episode 4
• Design For Life: Episode 5
• Design For Life: Episode 6

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Ah, the classic "blocking the pedestrain crossing with our bikes" maneuver. Nicely executed. Corner of Nanchang and Ruijin.

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A quite brilliant CS Research Topic Generator from Purdue. Includes a literature search for the generated topic.

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Fantastic video (YouTube embedded below) of a morphing robot. The movement method is called: Jamming Skin Enabled Locomotion (JSEL). It's from iRobot

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So, the other day, we're walking past hoF on Si Nan Lu about 1:30PM. The windows are so dark it always looks closed and I'm wondering if it's open. I look at the sign and it says open 11:00PM - 12:00PM. Not open. That's a weird opening time I thought to myself and took the snap above. And then the door opened and they said come on in we're open. I pointed out the sign - it took them a while but they eventually twigged it should say 11:00AM. The sign had been up for a week.

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Above is a picture from the ICBC cash withdrawl screen. So, you've entered the amount and you're sure it's correct so you click "Correct". Right? Wrong. You should have clicked "Confirm" to confirm its correctness. (Let's not get into "Return" for returning the cash or as a pseudonym for Enter as on keyboards also meaning Confirm - actually it means go to the previous screen.) This would have been better with just two buttons: "OK" and "Cancel". Still, I can't really complain - it's in English for which I am eternally grateful.

BTW: The title of this post is made…

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