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  • Hair affairs

    From the site Strange Maps comes this record from Die Zeit of the popularity of awful puns in the names of German hairdressing salons. The most popular is ' Haarmonie '. The others uphold that unfortunate line about the missing Germanic funny bone: Haareszeiten puns on Jahreszei... Read more ...

    Published on 02/27/2009 in diaphania

  • Following the diagram in Lisbon

    In Lisbon I much enjoyed the metro system, which is full of art and something of which the city is clearly proud. Its diagram uses Metrolis, a custom font from The Foundry . The lines are called seagull, sunflower, caravelle and orient: they have over-fussy graphics that don't quite f... Read more ...

    Published on 11/17/2008 in diaphania

  • Letters from Bethlehem

    Up a narrow street in Belem, Lisbon, and just yards away from the hungry tourists queuing for their Pasteis de Nata (the custard tarts which are a Lisbon speciality)  there is a chapel which re-opened as a gallery in September this year. Its outer wall has been transfomed by an a... Read more ...

    Published on 10/28/2008 in diaphania

  • Blankets and blazons

    Is it just me? I like old blanket labels. The design of some of these little scraps of silky cloth is fascinating. This 1950s blanket with its evocative label was brought by sea all the way from Australia over 40 years ago. Because she has a Physician chillproof blanket, the happy lady with... Read more ...

    Published on 06/01/2008 in diaphania

  • The beast within?

    A report in Pravda (of all reliable sources) says that centaurs were real . Researchers decided this because of the number of cave paintings depicting the chimeric creatures. The article states, in a somewhat old-fashioned translation, that: "Historical sources reveal that buggery was v... Read more ...

    Published on 04/20/2008 in diaphania

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