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Slow down

To go always faster, always farther. Similar injunctions are regularly heard, and one knows the principle of competition that grounds them: even when taking part of the leaders, one has to fight against oneself to excel. Here stands the quality […]

Posted: April 10th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Mots d'ordre

Accessing information

Libraries have been constituting crucial repositories of information since centuries. After being locations reserved to particular powerful elites (clergy or royal courts) that restricted the circulation of certain books or even censured the content of others, libraries have been progressively […]

Posted: December 8th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Énonciations, Mots d'ordre

The active way

Urban settings are made of so familiar components that we do not pay any attention to them: crosswalks, traffic lines, bike lanes, parking lots, bus lanes… only become salient when we miss them and we consider that their presence should […]

Posted: March 3rd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Mots d'ordre

Lignage

This is not a surprise even he has been often criticized about it: the scriptopolian is obsessed with written objects. He always watch out for them, trying to understand their modes of presence. In order to tell tirelessly what writing […]

Posted: February 7th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Mots d'ordre

The Order of Things

During a single day, we may very frequently move from one place to another, we may cross spaces fitted out in very different manners, we may be next to different entities. Yet, one generally does not attach importance to the […]

Posted: February 3rd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Mots d'ordre, Preuves

Instructions for non-use

In domestic spaces, as well as in public settings, explicit instructions for use directly attached to objects are rare. They are usally written on a separate document, possibly on the package protecting objects before their use. We surely all have […]

Posted: January 27th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Modes d'emploi, Mots d'ordre

Let’s take a breath

I tried different possibilities, I tested several options, but nothing worked. I turned the problem upside down, but I couldn’t find a solution. Even the elementary things seemed to be insuperable. Ideas became more and more confused, intermingled, they piled […]

Posted: November 25th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Instruments, Matières, Mots d'ordre

Table decorations

Learning how to eat is pre-eminentely a question of skills: to handle correctly various kitchenware, to lay on a first-rate meal, to sort out the sheep from the goats, and to adopt specific postures that fit with the manipulation of […]

Posted: November 11th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Modes d'emploi, Mots d'ordre

Comic

Signage, in subway spaces and elsewhere, is generally a matter of standards. Most signage designers think in terms of systems, components. The signboards are integrated into a coherent set of signs that have to be recognizable among the many other […]

Posted: October 18th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Formes, Mots d'ordre

Out of the doubt

Out of the doubt What could be easier than following an exit indication? There are so many of these signs. We got used to them, we live with them, and we can rely on them even when panicking. And we […]

Posted: October 7th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Mots d'ordre

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