Read & Return & Read & Return
25 Mar 2010
This kiosk’s strategy to sell the book on the promise of buying in back at a later date involves a fair amount of bait and …
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I’m a fan of design provocation – little projects that challenge the way we think about and see the world. Which is why Sasha Pohflepp’s …
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Motivations for Notating Currency
27 Feb 2010
Punters of this Tokyo camera store are handed a notated coin for this scratch-off lottery card. For any given context – whether ownership needs to …
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I’d rather face a night stuck in Kathmandu airport than walk the floor of a trade show, so it was with much chagrin that I …
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From Capture to Facilitation
08 Dec 2009
How does the role of the photographer change in a world where billions of sensors combine to capture ~octillions of experiences?
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View from Above, Proximate
03 Feb 2008
The tools to discover the location of resources whether you’re in a hurry to find helicopter landing pad (on the Tokyo hospital roof, above) or …
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More, Sustainable Cities
06 Jan 2008
Readers with an interest in exploring urban sustainability may want to visit Systems, Cities and Sustainable Mobility hosted by David Muyres et al at the …
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Personalised? Tampered With?
24 Sep 2007
Passing through Heathrow earlier this month I found myself being screened by a trainee baggage checker who, pointing to a decorative sticker on my laptop …
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What happens when people share an object that is inherently designed for personal use?
A Nokia Research team set out explore this topic during a July …
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