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Tokyo: grf
24 May 2013

In: GRF, Parco
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Road Line

24 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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246 from Loftwork. It takes a few years to come to terms with a motorway running through the heart of the city, omnipresent lay lines …
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Holding a Mirror up to the Outsider

24 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Kinda sweet when the Shibuya skatepark bans the dinky skateboards that are for sale by all-and-sundry shops in Harajuku these days. What elements of (now …
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Passive Aggressive Offerings

24 May 2013

In: Shibuya, back of
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Not entirely sure this is intentional or not: Tokyo cafe offers free wifi to it’s customers, but then makes the login and password so …
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Delaying the Onset of Ageing

12 May 2013



How important is maintaining product newness? And what are the strategies that consumers adopt to keep the product feeling fresh? Some Chinese iPhone users are refraining …
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Nurture

12 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Jing'an
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Storied, Travelled, Brands

10 May 2013

In: Baalbek, Cultural Norms
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Beat up Mercedes are to Lebanon what beat up Corollas are to Afghanistan. That’s stories being written.
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Tailor Interface

10 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Little India
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Clothes for on the road/skies/trials becoming nicely worn & patched.
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Mosque Manners

10 May 2013

In: Abu Dhabi, Cultural Norms
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A Sense of Ownership

05 May 2013



The distance between you here (your physical presence) and you there (your public and private online presence) is closing. How might this affect us? And …
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