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Hotel Noise

Hangzhou: hotel textures
The lobby of a Chinese boutique hotel (above) jarring with the in-room Chinese-English bible (below). Two separate issues: the role of Christian faith in China; the …



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Perfect Form

06 Dec 2010



Power to the People (in 1st Class)

06 Dec 2010



Infrastructure norms for Chinese high speed trains.
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Bleeding Fonts

Break Glass

05 Dec 2010



Instructions for breaking glass in the even of an emergency. Assume layers of information on top of anything and everything, contextually dependent. And then served up …
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Platform Markers

05 Dec 2010



Sign of the Times

16 Apr 2010

In: Cultural Norms
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The prevalence of escalators at the Lei Feng pagoda in Hangzhou is the real sign of the times: reflecting in part an aging, increasingly wealthy/demanding …
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Water Poetry

16 Mar 2010

In: Cultural Norms
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