Month: November 2013

  • Pictures and Words #1

    The all-time, most popular post on this blog is not a story or photos of our travels.  It is a post called “The Different Values of HSBC” which is about a series of advertising posters created for HSBC. It was posted on December 19, 2009. Take a look. The posters were widely seen in airports around…

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  • Views from W Barcelona

    The W Barcelona is located at the western end of Barcelona’s artificial beachfront. It is one of the taller buildings in the city and certainly the tallest and most recognizable in the downtown waterfront area. The architect, Ricardo Bofil, created a nearly 30-story tall building that is shaped like a sail. I had a room on the…

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  • W Barcelona

    I (Chris) attended a week-long business conference in Barcelona. The organizer chose its venue at the “W” on the city’s waterfront ! The hotel is built on land reclaimed from the sea during construction of a new entrance to the harbor. Upon arrival, there was a long line to check-in. It was almost 4:30pm. When I…

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  • Random photos #16 – #20

    These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). #16 – pool and ground floor…

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  • Floralp butter advertising campaign

    We have not posted on the topic of advertising for quite a while. The last set of posts directed to the advertising of HSBC in airports worldwide has been a perennial favorite of this blog – if you are curious, you can find them here, here, and here. Floralp is a Swiss brand of butter…

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  • Livraria Cultura @ Shopping Iguatemi, São Paulo

    This is the third bookstore that I came across in my two-and-a half-day stay in São Paulo. This Livraria Cultura is situated in one of the more luxury shopping malls in town (Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton are its neighbors). Like the shop they have in downtown on Avenida Paulista (see my post here), the entrance…

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