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Rank, Order

Shanghai taxi drives ID includes a registration number 111,892 where the lower the number the more earlier the driver was registered. One colleagues opined that …
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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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Leakage

03 Jun 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Pudong
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That passport photo that you’re embarrassed to share with friends? That’s now open to public consumption thanks to Chinese immigration. All passports are scanned as …
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Significant Strangers, Rear View Mirrors

15 Apr 2010
In: Chongqing, Future Perfect
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Been thinking a lot about my relationship with strangers recently – triggered by a number of unrelated threads: the death of a pedestrian on Sunset …
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The Wedding Singer

15 Mar 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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And more importantly – the liberal use of photoshop to create not one, but montages to the great self.
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Snap Shot Photo Studios

02 Mar 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Lhasa
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Next time you’re on a field study spare a little time for during user studies is visiting the neighbourhood photo studio. I rarely go to …
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One Identity Masked, Another Created

25 Feb 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya, back of
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Control Over Who You Want to Be

25 Feb 2010
In: Future Perfect, Omotesando
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Who are you? Or more to the point who do you want to be? Over time, more of the the social cues for communicating when a …
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Popular Male Photoshopped Portraiture, Kabul

20 Nov 2009
In: Afghanistan, Cultural Norms, Design Inspiration, Kabul, Locations
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All heads heavily photoshopped obviously. Of note: the desire/ability to appear twice in the same image; the penchant towards military; gun size preferences – only …
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Twos and Threes

02 Nov 2009
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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Most shops and business cards in Kabul include either two or three mobile phone contact numbers as a convenience for their customers – call costs …
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