Tokens at the check-out of a Tokyo supermarket – placing one in the basket indicates that the customer does not wish to have plastic bags …
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The replacement cycle of sex-trade advertising in a public phone box in London. Compare to the Yellow Arrow sticker (previous entry) to what extent can …
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A sticker from yellowarrow.net on the Design Forum shop in Helsinki. Sending a text message to the code printed on the sticker retrieves information about …
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A sticker from yellowarrow.net on the Design Forum shop in Helsinki. Sending a text message to the code printed on the sticker retrieves information about …
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Today we’re comfortable with the rapid dissemination of information and ideas from one side of the globe to the other. What’s in Tokyo today can …
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The extent that you can de-code this advertisement. The extent that local Tajiks can do the same. From the local press in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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Cigar stuffed into and blocking a cigarette-sized ashtray hole. Equivalents: dumping personal rubbish in the convenience store bins – a common behaviour in Japan; storing …
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Red dye from Mumbai above, blood from slaughtered sheep from Urumqi, below. The traces/bi-products of activities, the social acceptability of those activities, the extent to …
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A common feature in many Chinese cities is the heavy curtain found at the entrance of department stores and subways, shielding the interior against the …
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The inner workings of the process revealed. Vehicles typically share the road with pedestrians in the Tokyo suburbs – with fleshy humans separated from the metal …
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