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            "title": "Berlin U-bahn",
            "content_html": "<p>See an earlier post on <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-metro-station-names\/\">Berlin U-bahn station lettering<\/a>. Now, to the rest of the U-bahn.<\/p>\n<p>Typical station entrance:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6447.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is also a tram stop to the left and a train station above the road.<\/p>\n<p>Stadtmitte station has its own entrance sign design:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6544.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A schedule at the entrance:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_2089.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elements of wayfinding inside the stations. The list of the remaining stations of a line:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6713.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another one:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_3605.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>No turnstiles, as usual in Germany. To the left of the ticket machine (white and yellow), there is a small validator (yellow and white):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_3537.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the centre of a platform there is usually an element with the station name and exit guide:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6870.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A similarly design element, but wall-mounted:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_3598.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another exit guide design:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_3717.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Time to the next train, service information and a clock:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6868.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A compact version:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_2101.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ads:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_2144.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Train are yellow:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_3591.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>All trains have an external speaker (above a window) so that the announcement are heard from the platform. The windows are filled with the pattern of Brandenburg Gate.<\/p>\n<p>Inside an older train:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6415.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inside an newer train:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_3725.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Line diagrams are grouped. 5, 8 & 9:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6416.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>6 & 7:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_2107.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apparently, this reduces the production cost. But this format also makes the shown lines more “related” in the eyes of a passenger, even though transfers to other lines are no worse.<\/p>\n<p>A button to open the doors:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6417.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The system map is on the ceiling:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6419.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hermannplatz station:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6782.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Weberwiese station:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-IMG_3723.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Berlin U-bahn\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A train on an elevated structure:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-u-bahn-DSCF6674.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The photos are from the trips of March and May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>More Berlin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-metro-station-names\/\">U-bahn station names<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-street-name-plates\/\">Street name plates<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-coffee\/\">Coffee<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-planet-modulor\/\">Planet Modulor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n",
            "summary": "See an earlier post on Berlin U-bahn station lettering. Now, to the rest of the U-bahn",
            "date_published": "2017-07-05T10:10:47+03:00",
            "date_modified": "2017-07-05T10:10:09+03:00",
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            "title": "Coffee in Berlin",
            "content_html": "<p>I visited three coffee places in Berlin: The Barn and two Bonanzas.<\/p>\n<p>This is The Barn (Auguststraße 58):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3369.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Espresso, flat white and a cappuccino (I had the flat white as I always do):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3375.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sugar (not for me):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3378.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the Bonanza at Mauerpark (Oderberger Straße 35). Great sign:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3734.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inside:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3735.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Flat white and water:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3745.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the Bonanza in the yards of Friedrichshain (Adalbertstraße 70):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-DSCF8495.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nice building and the tables outside. Here’s their central office and the roastery.<\/p>\n<p>Inside (menu on the mirror):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-DSCF8492.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Almond thing, water, flat white:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3563.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tasty pastry in coffee shops always tries to distract you from the coffee. I try to resist it, but don’t always succeed.<\/p>\n<p>And this is not coffee, but a wrap and a smoothie in a vegan place <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodies-berlin.de\">Goodies<\/a> (Warschauer Str. 69):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-coffee-IMG_3707.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The photos are from the trip of May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>More Berlin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-street-name-plates\/\">Street name plates<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-planet-modulor\/\">Planet Modulor<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-metro-station-names\/\">U-bahn station names<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n",
            "summary": "I visited three coffee places in Berlin: The Barn and two Bonanzas",
            "date_published": "2017-06-23T19:22:51+03:00",
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            "title": "Berlin street name plates",
            "content_html": "<p>The main design:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-DSCF6784.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">1<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Below the main plate there is a place for a nano-plate with addresses range:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-DSCF6428.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">2<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This one with a red spot can be used as a nice logo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-DSCF6758.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">3<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If a street is named after someone, there is an additional plate about them on top:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-DSCF6931.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">4<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>These are two different ligatures:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-IMG_2090.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">5<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-IMG_3644.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">6<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nice name:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-IMG_3817.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">7<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-DSCF6633.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">8<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alternative design:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-DSCF6930.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">9<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-IMG_3431.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">10<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rare beauty:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-street-name-plates-IMG_3758.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">11<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More Berlin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-planet-modulor\/\">Planet Modulor<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-metro-station-names\/\">U-bahn station names<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/kiev-street-name-plates\/\">Kiev<\/a> street name plates.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "The main design",
            "date_published": "2017-05-04T11:06:16+03:00",
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            "title": "Planet Modulor store in Berlin",
            "content_html": "<p>Despite having no need for art supplies whatsoever, these sort of shops always drag me in somehow. There must be some psychological condition that when you see a family of items, each one of them seems much more attractive. Particularly true this is, when the items are neatly organised.<\/p>\n<p>Here, for instance, are colour pencils:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-DSCF6768.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">1<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most are sold already, but the attraction still works.<\/p>\n<p>Or some ropes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2035.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">2<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You cannot not want them.<\/p>\n<p>It’s Planet Modulor, a Berlin shop for all things material from stationery to scale models (photos from the April 2006 trip). Entrance:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-DSCF6764.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">3<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Note the 3D stairways.<\/p>\n<p>Inside signage:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-DSCF6765.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">4<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2030.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">5<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nice colours:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2029.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">6<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A ruler:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2031.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">7<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just copybooks:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2032.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">8<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also copybooks. If I ever wrote, I would use one of these:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2033.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">9<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clean:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2034.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">10<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scale models of humans:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2036.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">11<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Transportation and furniture:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2037.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">12<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This department drew my attention immediately:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2040.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">13<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Looks like some transit maps:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2041.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">14<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I don’t remember what was inside, so probably it turned out to be not that interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Scrolls with street panoramas:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2042.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">15<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The coolest department was the one with 3D printers. You can stand in a circle, they would take pictures of you all around and then print you out like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2043.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">16<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To try out markers, you colour some patterns, not boring white paper:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2044.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">17<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every time I see black paper and light pens, I think I should start sketching user interfaces on paper like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-planet-modulor-IMG_2045.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">18<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also recommended: London Graphic Centre at Covent Garden (Mercer st. and Shelton st.). Another place where you can easily spend an hour.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/berlin-metro-station-names\/\">Berlin U-bahn station names <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n",
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src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMG_3539.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">9<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMG_3530.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">10<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMG_3692.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">11<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMG_3814.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">12<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMG_2103.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">13<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMG_2113.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">14<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMGP5203.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">15<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>My favourite plate:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/berlin-metro-station-names-IMG_2122.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"e2-text-caption\">16<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img 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