2008 archives

The Business, Consequences of Locating Stuff

14 Feb 2008
In: Los Olivos, Today's Office
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“Garbage is useful stuff in the wrong place” from Alex Steffen at the sustainability summit. Big implications in a world where people who want stuff …
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Textures

14 Feb 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Los Olivos
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A Sense of Scale

14 Feb 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Los Olivos
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One ostrich egg equivalent in volume to between 20 and 25 regular chicken eggs. Difficult to make tasty scramble eggs since you ask – a …
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Customers First No Chatter

13 Feb 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Los Olivos
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Why doesn’t this say “Customers First. Chat“? In what contexts is chatter with customers likely to be encouraged? Perhaps a local small town grocery store …
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Recycled, Upcycled: Remade

12 Feb 2008
In: Accra, Design Inspiration
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Is it possible to make an upcycled mobile phone entirely from recycled materials? One that consumers will want to buy? How about at a price …
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Personalising “Cash”

11 Feb 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Los Angeles
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This pre-paid and top-up-able Starbucks card guides the customer to “treat this card like cash” – and log on to their web site to create …
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Targets Practiced

11 Feb 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Los Angeles
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Gender of shooter. Shooter’s preference for gender of target.
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Texture & Legibility

11 Feb 2008
In: Design Inspiration
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Investigative Design / Materials

10 Feb 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Pasadena
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The slides from yesterday’s Arts Center presentation on Investigative Design can now be viewed – most of the material is taken from a previous presentation …
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Curb Annotation

10 Feb 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Santa Monica
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And rounding off today’s fascination with curb crawling, this from outside a flower shop on Wilshire & 23rd, Santa Monica. Related: extending street markings in Daikanyama …
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