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Banned

Second-hand records that you’re willing to buy generally share at least three criteria: they are records that you don’t already own (at a certain point, you’ll need a database you can browse on your phone to be sure), records that […]

Posted: March 12th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
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Clothes

Marseilles, June 2017. Sociologists have taught us that clothes are signs: they indicate, because of their choices, a professional role, groups of belongings or social positioning. But others have to interpret these signs, they must know what the gray suit […]

Posted: February 19th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
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Polygraphy

Berlin, september 2017. Abridged writing, abbreviations, acronyms stand for several words at the same time. Reducing the main thing to a few letters, the inscription is meant to design a precise and circumscribed meaning. But for all that, polysemy is […]

Posted: December 4th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
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Caution

North Adams, September 2017 In this small western Massachusetts town, the visible brick buildings no longer housed workers or toxic substances. The gigantic rooms of industrial origin had been transformed into halls for a contemporary art museum, blazed by sunlight. […]

Posted: October 16th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
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Infringement

High-speed train in the countryside, September 2017. As often nowdays, access to the train was preceded by a control at the head of the quay, the red lasers scanning the 2D identifiers. The temporarily compact crowd was transformed into authorized […]

Posted: October 4th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
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Conventions

Crosswalks are one of these rare semiotic objects that became conventional all over the world. Quite extraordinary when you think about it: an universal meaning some signs do acquire through time. Imagine the circumstances that lead to such a globalized […]

Posted: May 15th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
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Borders

Northern Alps, February 2017. Above the cloud sea, the sky is blue and the slopes are not full of people. Obsession of the skiers once the slope is done, the queue to the chairlift remains short in this supposed period […]

Posted: February 20th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations, Mots d'ordre

Laptop

Paris, November 2016 The place was cozy with its wooden tables, mismatched chairs and leather armchairs, as we noticed the big homemade everyday cakes on a big corner table. Everything seemed perfect for a work appointment. And then we saw […]

Posted: November 21st, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Mots d'ordre

All roads lead to Rome

Paris, october 2016. In any way-finding system, arrows are key. Whether in the streets, a subway system, an airport, a park or a building, an arrow plays a crucial part in pointing to a specific site, while adding as a […]

Posted: October 24th, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Écologies, Mots d'ordre

Social

London, august 2016. Urban settings are made of flows. Pedestrians, bikes, motorcycles, wheelchairs, cars, strollers, buses, tramways circulate the streets simultaneously, and many devices are designed to perform fluidity and to regulate their peaceful coexistence. The introduction of each new […]

Posted: October 3rd, 2016 ˑ No Comments
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