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Ad Literacy

Tokyo: Shibuya advertising
Facebook’s ad platform is the Flip of advertising: smart, simple and just enough to be effective. If you haven’t already tried Facebook’s advertising platform you should …



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05 Mar 2010

In: Future Perfect, Tokyo
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Efficiency in Informal Markets

04 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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Lady on the right of the photo sits at a make-shift in desk front of Shibuya Station issues receipts to her scouts in return for …
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To Miss You Is To Love You

04 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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Aibo is gone, but not forgotten But also not missed What does that say?
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Shared Solitary Serial Experiences

04 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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Two Tokyoites – on the right of the photo engaged in the same task watching the same television program on their mobile phone each using …
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Copycat Behaviours

27 Feb 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Higashi Yama
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Futons aired on only one floor of a housing estate in Higashi Yama – the extent to which our assumptions about behavioural norms are framed …
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Contexts Of Use

27 Feb 2010

In: Akihabara, Design Inspiration
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The extent to which brands wish to project (life style orientated) contexts of use. The actual contexts in which those brands are used. The degree to which …
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Ambient Service Expectations

27 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Nagoya
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Annotated Ramp

27 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Unwelcome Mats

27 Feb 2010

In: Tokyo
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“Be Quiet.” Really.
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Groped

27 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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