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Brand, Card

Brighton: TripAdvisor keycard
The loop back from digital to physical.



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28 Jul 2011

In: Brighton, Design Inspiration
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Bodily Cues

26 Jul 2011

In: Brighton, Design Inspiration
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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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Table Icons

08 Jul 2010

In: Brighton, Design Inspiration
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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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Park Circles

Sign for Russel Square park includes a couple of dozen circles but no annotation of their meaning. Suggestions?
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The Art of Conversations

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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London SOS

05 Jul 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Trafalgar Square
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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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Purity in Form II

05 Jul 2010



See also this example from Los Angeles.
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Alien Invasion

03 Jul 2010

In: Brighton, Cultural Norms
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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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Augmented Pasts

02 Jul 2010

In: Brighton, Design Inspiration
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A reminder that we have a rich history of augmentation – this H Hughes & Sons sexton from the 1930′s – still in use by …
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A Girl, Played

18 Feb 2010

In: GRF, Spitalfields
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