Category Archives: localisation

Oh! What a lovely translation design

By admin | Published: 22 March 2010

I came across this picture gallery of classic movie posters, as part of a recent Guardian article called ‘The Story of O’, a diverting little piece about the letter O in type and design. Designers would probably start thinking how about how the ‘O’ cleverly combines textual and visual representation to deliver a single message, as [...]

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How do you spell Portuguese?

By admin | Published: 19 January 2010

How do you spell Portuguese? In English, many people forget to put in that second ‘u’, but Portuguese speakers across the world, whether in Portugal, Brazil, Angola or Macau, are likely to spell it correctly: português. One reason it’s easy to get correct is because Portuguese spelling, unlike English, is largely phonetic. But what happens in [...]

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Why FIGS translation matters to business

By admin | Published: 14 August 2009

Look up figs in a dictionary and it will describe a fruit or the tree that produces them. In translation and localisation the word has a quite different meaning. FIGS translation is simply an acronym describing French, Italian, German and Spanish translation. This combination of languages opens any document or product up to a wide [...]

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