Design Errands
@DesignErrands
Design Errands - a series of observations of design in the wild by a philosopher in Paris and a designer in Abu Dhabi. http://nyuad.design
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It looked as if it was a good idea at the time: digital façades. #DesignErrands #DigitalDesign Image: Paris, April 2025. Credit RC.
Design for six-handed people. #DesignErrands #WaterWaste #Sustainability Image: Versailles, March 2025. Credit RC.
Life changing quantitative information. Image: University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Jan 2025. Credit RC.
Gone are those tedious mnemonic techniques to retrieve your clothes at the lockers. Image: MAC VAL Museum, March 2025. Credit RC.
Should I look left, where the arrow suggests, or should I look right, where traffic comes from? #DesignErrands #Arrows #ConfusedDirections Image: Las Ramblas, Barcelona, February 2025. Credit RC.
White Nights. Of course they had those Summer ice skating courts in St. Petersburg back then. Reading past the title before designing the cover is a luxury no designer can afford any longer. #DesignErrands #Anachronisms #judgebythecover Image: Italy, January 2025. Credit RC.
Why. Why. Why?! Architecture should be justifiable, and wear justification on its face. #DesignErrands #DesignJustification #JustifiableArchitecture Image: Maison-Blanche, Paris, Jan 2025. Credit RC.
North-up and South-up try to coexist. #DesignErrands #BadSignage #Maps Image: Paris, Métro line 14, January 2025. Credit RC.
Welcome, Martians! Note: an attempt was unsuccessfully made to use G. Translate. #DesignErrands #BadSignage #DigitalDisplayGoneWrong Image: Monza, December 2024. Credit RC
Maybe the led green button will open the faucet. Maybe it will open the door behind. Try, experiment! #DesignErrands #instructionsUnclear Image: Train Rennes-Lorient, France, déc 2024. Credit RC.
Why use m dash ( - ), when you can effectively disorient using the immediately salient right ➡ arrow, against the useless bottom arrow ⬇ (supposedly delivering relevant info, i.e. turn back)? #DesignErrands Image: Aix-en-Provence, hôtel The Originals, Nov 2024. Credit RC
If your direction about directions is printed on the same sticker as the directions , expect it to land next to it, and stick. #DesignErrands #BadDirections Image: Caremar Boat to Naples, Nov. 2024. Credit RC.
Reckless drivers won't care about the life of cyclists. But they would definitely try to avoid scratching the paint of their beloved cars. #DesignErrands #Cyclist #AgainstRecklessDriving #RoadSafety Image: France, Oct. 2024. Credit RC.
What goes where? Did people learn the color codes, after all these years? The case for the maintenance of verbal communication. #DesignErrands #Signs Image: Monza, Railway Station, October 2024. Credit RC.
Where, on which floor? What holds for book tables of contents may not hold for hospitals. Image: Monza, Italy, October 2024. Credit RC. #DesignErrands #BadSignage
Traffic light for drone takeoff? Go/no go? If your streetlamp is heavily inspired by traffic light design, it will inevitably be processed as some kind of traffic light, and trigger interpretive challenges. #DesignErrands Image: Paris, Avenue d'Italie, October 2024. Credit RC.
Home made solutions against AI based plate recognition. Illegal, of course. #DesignErrands #AdHoc #AI #LicensePlate Image: Paris, September 2004. Credit RC.
Very sensible arrangement: many surprising encounters ahead! #DesignErrands #Doors #Interiors #Wayfinding Image: ISEL, Le Havre, France, Septembre 2022. Credit RC.
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