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I like to hang out alone at the Strand Bookstore in lower Manhattan. Although Strand is well known as one of the busiest bookstores to enti...

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To explain, I'm paraphrasing an entry from my diary, written on a day of frustration with our daily grind: A graphic designer is a perso...

EENY — MEENY — MINEY — MO A happy hum from a Sami hunter. 意尼 — 咪尼 — 蜜尼 — 眸 * 一位北歐沙米獵鹿人愛哼的數數兒 韻律 。 *「 倆者取其一」的兒童數數兒 遊戲韻律

GOING WITH THE FLOW On the rainy day I do nothing but watch the rain. 順其自然 下雨天時就賞雨囉。

TYPOGRAPHY Being beautiful is more important than being meaningful. 文字造型 字形美感大於內容含意。

In Finnish Lakeland I kept shouting: Be quite, Mosquitoes! I am not deaf yet. 在芬蘭的湖區 我不斷吶喊著： 閉嘴，饒舌的蚊子, 我可還沒聾呢。

In Gjesver, a tiny fishing village in Norwegian Lapland, I was walking down the pebbled path and smelling the crisp clean air of the Arctic....

On my way to North Cape I saw the abandoned wharf, and I would like to call it Norwegian Wabi﹣Sabi .

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He smiled red when happy with excitement, of course. And yellow, when at the Bauhaus, he completed his color theory with new elements of f...

紐約忙碌的生活形態讓我成為一名不折不扣、迅速切實的旅行者。無論是商務或是休閒旅行，我的行囊配備即少又單純。我可以在既定的時間內以迅雷不及掩耳的速度呼嘯抵達美國，瑞士，或者是芬蘭的機場。 一些好奇的朋友們問我如何準備得體的輕裝行囊。在此野人現曝，把個人的旅行傢私簡列如下： １． 美...