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Task Space I

08 Nov 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Hong Kong
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The space needed to complete a task?
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Grounded

06 Nov 2008
In: New York, Today's Office
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24 hours in the bruised apple give or take. The next 14 hours on a plane to catch up with emails and sleep and personal …
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Reassurance Behaviours I

04 Nov 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Washington DC
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How you know whether something is really, absolutely working as planned? And if you’re offering a service – how to communicate to suspicious customers that you …
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You Are a Walking Advertorial

03 Nov 2008
In: Future Perfect, Washington DC
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The lady at the counter gives an upgrade with a smile and nary a request for a credit card – legroom weighs the odds of …
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Faces As Brands / Containers

26 Oct 2008
In: Future Perfect, Nakame
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Consider the placement of sticker graph for call girl ads on the handle of a Sao Paulo phone booth and here in Venice. For every thing …
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Over Mountains Passes to the Caspian

25 Oct 2008
In: Chalus, Today's Office
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Today’s office is a villa situated on the outskirts of the Caspian sea-side town of Chalus. Arriving last night’s the surrounds looked like a cross between …
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Cutting to the Chase

22 Oct 2008
In: Research Methods, Sangenjaya
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For those of you in tha’ valley I’ll hosting a workshop/presentation/bootcamp at the Institute for Design at Stanford (with thanks to Diego Rodriguez, George Kembel, …
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Psychology of What We Don’t Know

21 Oct 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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The human tendency to look forward, to take in the parts of approaching objects that we haven’t yet seen.
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Fantasy. Reality. Stir

19 Oct 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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An open studio for wedding photos – in the garden of the Meguro Gajoen Hotel above (& incidentally the view directly below my office window), …
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In Ur Huud, ‘Prezentin

06 Oct 2008
In: Shimo Kitazawa, Today's Office
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A couple of talks coming up – Street / Emotion at the Design and Emotion conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday and Something Witty with …
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