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Objects and Spaces

29 Jul 2012
In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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When Apple’s internal, inspiration-driven processes becomes public as part of the prior-art discovery process their process will change. But when the search logs of employees …
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Tangible Support

30 Oct 2011
In: Camden, Cultural Norms
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Rare to see a pen(!) still attached to this ATM machine in the USA, admittedly in Camden Maine – a small town of ~5,000. Wonder …
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Steal Me

Local government office pen anti-theft mechanism. What if we reverse this logic? What would it take to encourage the pens to be ‘stolen’? What business model …
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Post Office Norms

23 Oct 2007
In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Continuing on today’s transaction theme – this Tokyo post office form filling tables includes: the current date; commonly used forms; a hanko ink pad; tissues …
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