Category: design
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Vitra at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Continuing with my posts on the stuff I saw at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan … Vitra had a large white, airy space, built with translucent boxes/bricks. According to Wikipedia and Vitra’s own site: Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company founded in 1950’s and dedicated to improving the quality of homes, offices…
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Poliform/Varenna at the Salone
There were so much to see at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2014 in Milano. I will have quite a few posts … Poliform was one of the first showrooms I visited. From their very well designed web site : Poliform’s history is that of a company, despite having achieved an international dimension, nonetheless it has maintained…
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Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2014
After several attempts to go to the annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile (International Furniture Show) in Milan, I finally made it this year. Sue was traveling with her parents on a trip in Asia so she did not come with me. The event started on April 8 and ended on April 13. The last two…
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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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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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Our virtual stamp collection: London Olympics 2012
While we were visiting the International Broadcast Center of the 2012 London Olympics (see post here), we wandered into a post office/shop which sold stamps and related souvenirs (essentially mugs and posters with the stamp’s design and some special coins) to the reporters and broadcasting crew. The collection of stamps was a well-regarded hobby back…