“We supply tax-free bikes for work here” on the door of the Tokyo Fixed Gear shop, Soho. Related: bicycle sticker design elements and Sexon Super Pista, …



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The obviousness with which the mechanisms with which we are observed are visible, targets, protected, versus those which are hidden, remote. Prickly, protected cages no …
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The loop back from digital to physical.
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What can your need to salivate (or not) teach us about the psychology of design? Or about the cultural differences in the psychology of design?
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Currently fixated by uniform shapes (ketchup), and the clash of uniform shapes (table, chairs versus ketchup dispensers).
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Sign for Russel Square park includes a couple of dozen circles but no annotation of their meaning. Suggestions?
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One of the highlights from the Guardian newspaper Activate 2010 Summit in London, a day that included amongst others presentations from Mike Migurski, Clay Shirky …
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Signage in an underground parking structure tucked between Trafalgar Square and the Institute of Contemporary Arts – given the density of government buildings in proximity …
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See also this example from Los Angeles.
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Brighton council had decided to introduce large, waste-truck friendly bins that to the outsider appear like silent, brooding invaders in virtually every other street in …
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