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Majority Report

02 Mar 2013
In: Future Perfect, Washington DC
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FBI adverts on a bus shelter display in downtown DC outside a branch of SunTrust bank, the ads in quick rotation had a Total Recall …
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Privacy Line

20 Apr 2012
In: Cultural Norms, Shanghai
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Line in front of this bank’s outdoor ATM. How we learn what distance is enough.
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The Money of History

22 Aug 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Mazar e Sharif
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Stepped out of a series of ad-hoc interviews with hawala agents, to find this gent punting this 1910 hundred rouble banknote to the currency dealers …
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10 Tips for International Relocation

China is now the fifth country I’ll feel comfortable calling home – after the UK, Germany, America and Japan, each time the process of relocating …
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Guides for Where To Queue

27 Feb 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Yooga
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For a bank, Yooga.
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Founding Fathers

30 Nov 2007
In: Accra, Cultural Norms
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Using people and events from local history to give a currency authority and relevance – here on an 10,000 Ghanian Cedis (0.7 Euros) note. The …
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Formal / Informal

The re-designed First Direct site includes an un-bank like vocabulary in it’s footer: “We’re obsessive about the quality of our service, so we monitor or …
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