2008 archives

Service Reassurance

08 Sep 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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How you know whether something is really, absolutely working as planned? Light bulbs on the front of a mobile phone recharging stall in Kabul.
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Delivery Infrastructure

24 Aug 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Shinagawa
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Clip outside this Shinagawa hotel room supporting the delivery of up to two newspapers.
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Extenuating Posture

24 Aug 2008
In: Azabu Juban, Cultural Norms
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Signed, Sealed

23 Aug 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Books in Japan are by default sealed – if you want to read you gotta, er, have the yen to hand over the Yen. In …
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Today’s Office: Dawn

11 Aug 2008
In: Japan, Today's Office
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Wake up to a dawn over the pacific. 90 minutes before touch down, coffee arrives. Head down / write up field notes.
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Itch’s, Surfaces Scratched

10 Aug 2008
In: Kabul, Today's Office
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Shipping out in a few hours. Leaving with more questions than answers. As-salaamu alaikum Herbert, Aryn & Tamim.
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The Ice Cream Man Cometh

06 Aug 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Kabul
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What goes through your mind when you hear the jingle of an ice-cream van? Maybe it offers up the promise of summer – hanging out …
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Porn Norms

04 Aug 2008
In: Cultural Norms, somewhere near
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Village on the outskirts of Kabul.
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Locker Number Direction

03 Aug 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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Lockers numbered right to left.
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Gravestones & Gender Orientation

03 Aug 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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If the head and foot stones are aligned with the grave the body is female, perpendicular to the grave, male. Green flags – either martyrs …
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