Shanghai

Clean Up, Clean Up

Tokyo: clean up, clean up
25 Apr 2012

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Quick Swipe, Pay

22 Apr 2012

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Combinations of words to imply swiftness-of-payments.
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STD, Treatment

22 Apr 2012

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Poster advertising the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases from a back-alley, close to the office. Contextual advertising, indeed.
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New & Old

21 Apr 2012

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“outside food not allowed”
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Privacy Line

20 Apr 2012

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Line in front of this bank’s outdoor ATM. How we learn what distance is enough.
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Maos

20 Apr 2012

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Typography

19 Apr 2012

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Laundry Hanging

19 Apr 2012

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The shift from outside to in, with the shift from sun and wind to electric.
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Residential Shops

18 Apr 2012

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Taobao is, by most definitions of the word, a magical place – with a bit of searching you can find pretty much any product or …
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Chinese Airport Textures

17 Apr 2012

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Dense-urban China does a like-clockwork pollution-grey mist for early morning flights, a haze that lingers through the day. Delays are very common on popular routes …
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