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Urban Geometry: The Mental Curb

Tokyo: lay lines
24 May 2013

Main. Stream.

24 May 2013



Road Line

24 May 2013



246 from Loftwork. It takes a few years to come to terms with a motorway running through the heart of the city, omnipresent lay lines …
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Holding a Mirror up to the Outsider

24 May 2013



Kinda sweet when the Shibuya skatepark bans the dinky skateboards that are for sale by all-and-sundry shops in Harajuku these days. What elements of (now …
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Passive Aggressive Offerings

24 May 2013



Not entirely sure this is intentional or not: Tokyo cafe offers free wifi to it’s customers, but then makes the login and password so …
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Delaying the Onset of Ageing

12 May 2013



How important is maintaining product newness? And what are the strategies that consumers adopt to keep the product feeling fresh? Some Chinese iPhone users are refraining …
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Nurture

Storied, Travelled, Brands

Beat up Mercedes are to Lebanon what beat up Corollas are to Afghanistan. That’s stories being written.
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Tailor Interface

Clothes for on the road/skies/trials becoming nicely worn & patched.
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Mosque Manners