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Infra Density

21 May 2010
In: Austin, Cultural Norms
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Just some of ~dozen ATMs in Austin’s 6th Street bar area – certainly the densest sustained row of cash machines I’ve come across anywhere in …
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Human Flows Redirected

17 May 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Shinagawa
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Nodding Donkeys

02 Apr 2010
In: Beverly Hills, Cultural Norms
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Interesting to see how neighbourhoods deal with and build around necessary infrastructure. For a short video oil rigs/nodding donkeys tucked in and around Beverly Hills …
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Sign Norms

21 Mar 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Dubai
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Street corner signs in Dubai highlights the information architecture norms for this rapidly changing city. Japan is a country where buildings typically are found by district, …
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Brands at the Point of Transaction

17 Mar 2010
In: Beverly Hills, Design Inspiration
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Credit card brands appearing directly on this Beverly Hills parking meter. Most of us will have grown used to parking meters being an everyday part of …
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Boom

01 Feb 2010
In: GRF, Xi'an
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The Stuff of Life, on the Streets, for Free

04 Nov 2009
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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Four heaters serving up boiling water to the traders around Kabul’s Pul-e Khishti Mosque, with a box of tea-pots, fresh tea leaves, and a container …
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Infra Assumptions

04 Aug 2009
In: Golmud, Today's Office
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14 hours from Lhasa to Golmud, one power socket in the carriage alternately occupied by the guards laptop and the guards printer. Infrastructure is: what …
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Formal Urban Annotation

19 Jul 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Handan
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Our Augmented World

08 Jul 2008
In: Daikanyama, Design Inspiration, Future Perfect
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In a future perfect world where a % of the urban population is wearing or carrying a device that is capable of augmenting reality what …
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