Do-it-yourself Easter postcards

Looking around Warsaw for some atypical Easter postcards proved to be very disappointing. I decided that I am not going to give up and will take some time and send my friends happy cards with inspiring thoughts for this upcoming celebration.. Below you can see the outcome of my (home) work! I am very proud of them. What do you think? ;)

background arrangements

cards are ready;)

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From an Alpine Swiss resort...to Japan

I was once said that all fashion trends that the West absorbs and promotes every season have already been tested in Japan. This time is the other way around: it is an European grown idea, made in China, successfully sold in Japan.

It is another brilliant Swiss idea (along with Freitag bags, in my opinion). Bruno Bike is a business idea born to perform Bruno's "pride and philosophy of Switzerland to provide a comfortable riding". It provokes users, preferably office workers, to rethink their daily travel to work. It is a smart alternative to a company car, a 'mini-velo' which shares the style, ergonomics and shape of a normal road bike, with one difference: Bruno Bike is folding (!), small and very light. They sell like hot cakes in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. They have become fashionable as the frames are fabricated from chromoly, a high carbon steel, which puts their prices up. According to an article in Monocle: "Bruno Bike accounts  for 16 per cent of the 50,000 mini velos sold annually" in the Asian countries listed above.

brunobike.jp

brunobike.jp

brunobike.jp

brunobike.jp

The bicycle distributor Bruno d'Arsié is running and promoting the company from the Alpine village of Klosters, close to Davos. He is a retired cycling champion that did represent the Swiss team from the mid 70s. He came second at his last official championship in 1990.

www.cyclingarchives.com

www.cyclingarchives.com