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Things That Go Together

Khiva: Cigarettes and Seeds
 

Cigarettes and seeds are often sold together here in Uzbekistan. Both dry goods, and both where consumption is highly ritualised.

The desire for designers/marketing to create goods and services that become so ingrained in our everyday practices that they become, well, everyday rituals. The positive and negative aspects of those rituals.