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Thoughts on Cloud Printing

Been thinking about this announcement by HP to add email addresses to a range of printers. You might think of this as a small thing, …
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A Grimace in the Mind

Canny designers have been playing on the human mind’s ability to see faces in pretty much anything usually to add a smile – one of …
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How to Surive the Airport Taxi

If there’s one thing that is likely to raise the stress levels of the think-you’ve-seen-it-all-before business traveler it’s the taxi from the airport to the …
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Postures and Poses

09 Jun 2010
In: Ashgabat, Design Inspiration
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Security Check

09 Jun 2010
In: Ashgabat, Design Inspiration
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If there’s one thing about doing a lot of travel on hand luggage it’s the fine selection of ‘security checked’ stickers that collected along the …
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Putrid / Perfect

09 Jun 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Darvaza
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My desert guide whips out blanket and starts to brew water for coffee, and no surprises that it’s of the instant, granule variety. There’s something …
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Minimal. Slots.

09 Jun 2010
In: Ashgabat, Future Perfect
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A beautifully minimal phone kiosk design – doesn’t include a coin-return slot. The explicit design choice of a one-way direction of coins assumes a 100% …
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Common Sense

For certain types of research – the highest compliment that a client can pay is that your findings are ‘common sense’. They usually point this …
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Comm Clusters

08 Jun 2010
In: Ashgabat, Cultural Norms
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Walk around the Ashgabat suburbs and you soon come across of clusters of satellite dishes clinging to buildings like mushrooms to a tree. How do consumers …
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Brands That Don’t Travel So Well

Brands we know and love, Barf soap powder can be found across the old Soviet republics.
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