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Minimalist Graphics
On my flight over about a month ago, I flew Swiss airline. I was bored and cannot help but notice their consistent use of a graphic in most of their printed matter. It is a short horizontal bar (or a dash) placed under the title of something. I think the horizontal bar resembles a cursor.
Diptyque ✻ 34 Boulevard Saint Germain
Diptyque is a French parfumeur based in Paris which started the fragrance business in 1963. We received two Diptyque candles (bougie) as a gift from Tracy a while back. One was a colored version of the Baies scent which is described as a bouquet of roses and blackcurrant leaves (above). The other scent is Violette –
Landing In Switzerland
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0OidBDlWBE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] This is a video of a landing plane and a moving train. It was shot just before my flight landed at the Geneva airport and contains near the end a short clip of my train from Geneva to Neuchâtel. It captures the moment of my first landing on Swiss soil as a foreign worker.
La Crêperie de Grancy
On one of my house hunting weekend in Lausanne, I wandered into La Crêperie de Grancy for lunch. It is located on the second floor of a concrete building on Blvd de Grancy 4. Quite a cozy, comfortable neighborhood eatery – a bit like a diner, except that as the name indicates, they only do crepes. Creperies are quite
