It’s amazing how much graphic design and signage in the form of neon is seen in Hong Kong. Makes some of the more…subtle…signage get overlooked. Here’s an homage to a few of those special signs.

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yes, spitting is apparently an issue in Hong Kong. This sign is located at the entrance to the Zoological Gardens.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “No Spitting”, url: “http://gamil.com/2007/10/11/pod-october-11-2007/” });

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Each banner comes from a larger picture. Supposedly, we will have an interesting picture to use each day. That is our intent, but we’ll see if life is really that visually interesting for the Gamil folks… Anyway, we will have apost each day as well which shows the whole Picture of the Day. That way, [...]

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We were tired today, and tired of all of the smells and noise of Tsim Sha Tsui, so we decided to spend the day leisurely walking around in the Central district of Hong Kong. We went to a buncha art galleries, which I will write more about later, after I can backtrack and figure out [...]

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We have a long list of things we’d like to see in Hong Kong this trip, and one thing on the list was the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery. It’s in the New Territories (the burbs), which is a direction not really on our path for the rest of the trip, so we multi-tasked and added other [...]

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