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Llove Interface

Our Tokyo ground crew spent a week futoning it in a local apartment so the Llove Hotel served as our one-night-away break-out space – an …
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{Colour} Vehicles

10 Oct 2010
In: Design Inspiration, San Francisco
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What colours do people associate with activities, buildings, people, tasks? And in a world where our view of the world can be augmented – what …
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Petrol Station Colours

20 Aug 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Jalalabad
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Eye Colour Norms (Speed of Change)

The next time you are up close with a young, female Shanghainese spend just a little bit longer staring into her eyes – despite the …
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Egg Colour Norms

28 May 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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For every colour an association: orange denotes cooked eggs – with a small bag of salt off to one side.
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Egg Colour Norms II

29 Apr 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Handan
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Payment Mechanism Colour Coding

It might just look like rows of colourful folders – but this office cabinet provides at-a-glance understanding of the money flows through this dentists office. …
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Touch Interaction

26 Apr 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Los Angeles
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A familiar site in European and North American dentists – a tap that turns on and off by gently pressing the top of the pipe. …
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The Traces of Others

25 Feb 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Washington DC
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A common sight for urinal users the world over – the unflushed pee from the previous stall user(s). As we become more inventive in how we …
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Blue Rinse

25 Feb 2010
In: Future Perfect, Shimo Kitazawa
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A familiar sight in the (toilet-bowl-using) world over. But it could and ultimately will, be so much more. Expat discussions about toilets in Japan tend to center …
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