Patterns around me

Playground manual

gany44 — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:16:36 +0000

Will Children read this??

Stop buttons for human being

gany44 — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:03:16 +0000

When you get on a bus in Seoul, you could see this button, called “Stop button only for the disabled, not for normal people”.
I don’t know why stop buttons are seperated for the disabled and normal people. I’d like to point out some problem in this system.

1. This kind of button is not “kind”.
How do the disabled feel when they look at the discription of the button. Do they really feel good? It’s just one of discrimination. There are not stop buttons for the disabled or normal people. There are buttons just for “human”.

2. It’s not a efficient system.
I’ve pushed the button once unintentionally. At the moment, the bus driver was very angry with me. For the first time, I didn’t know why. After a while, I could realize it, and I couldn’t blame the driver. The reason was that if the button once was pushed, the bus driver had to do something more. It means when “normal” stop buttons are pushed, and the buttons are on, then a bus driver only needs to open and close a door, and the stop button will be off. Simple. However, if the stop button for the disabled was pushed, the bus driver should not only open and close a door, but also switch on some safety system for the disabled. Before the system is on and off, the stop button won’t be off. Stop buttons for the disabled are only bothring the bus driver.

These are based on the point of view to seperate stop buttons for the disabled and normal people. Stop buttons are just stop buttons. Do not treat the disabled special carelessly.

The message

gany44 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:45:58 +0000

Public bathrooms always are exposed to hygiene problem and troubles with someone’s misbehavior. So not only some notices should stick on a wall to prevent troubles, but also messages of the notice should stick in people’s mind.

The message below shows a good example how to convey information with generous and strict tone & manner simultaneously to the public people.

Alone

gany44 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:32:16 +0000

Somthing put in a wrong place. Such thing gives fun to people.

Public Slogan

gany44 — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:59:31 +0000

What can I say about this?
The words written in pictures below are very controversial issues in Korea. Dokdo and childbirth.

Really ugly and funny way to express.

Anyway it would be successful to catch people’s eyes.

Part-time job

gany44 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:37:23 +0000

Tragedy of Part-time job.

Unique Close

gany44 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:00:14 +0000

Elevator buttons in an apartment complex.

Where is a close button?

Broken clock

gany44 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:56:30 +0000

Most buses I take for commute have a broken clock, like above picture.

Why don’t they fix it?

(A good thing is to cover on the front. The cover prevents to give wrong information.)

Waiting system

gany44 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:25:29 +0000

When ordered food has been cooked, the board shows the food number that I got.

Very bored and ugly. (Isn’t there any other solution?)

updated

gany44 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:29:41 +0000

The message to make me crazy when back to my desk. All of my data unsaved has been lost.

Automation is not always convenient.