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All over Tokyo there are signs extolling energy saving – a target of 25% for buildings. The quieter corners of the Cerulean Hotel has a …
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What is worse: no emergency button, or an emergency button that doesn’t work?
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Your hotel is on fire – you scramble around your home/office/hotel room for something that will enable you to crawl the smoke-filled corridors and see …
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Instructions for breaking glass in the even of an emergency. Assume layers of information on top of anything and everything, contextually dependent. And then served up …
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SOS button. And this from Switzerland.
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Given the extensive use of emergency phone numbers in un/popular culture – the extent that it’s easier to remember the emergency number from another country? A …
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Sunday’s street market in Nakame and the emergency services are out force, demonstrating their willingness to, well, service emergencies. Their presence includes this not-particularly Japanese …
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The dis/advantages of labelling infrastructure used for emergency telecom with signage indicating it’s used for emergency telecommunications? The dis/advantages of mislabelling objects in public spaces.
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