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Motivations for Notating Currency

Tokyo: scratch card and coin with sticker
Punters of this Tokyo camera store are handed a notated coin for this scratch-off lottery card. For any given context – whether ownership needs to …



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27 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shinjuku
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Guides for Where To Queue

27 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Yooga
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For a bank, Yooga.
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Man Down

26 Feb 2010

In: Hokkaido, Research Methods
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One of the metrics for a successful field study is unsurprisingly, ensuring everyone returns home safely. For our recent Accra field study this was, alas, …
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Downhill Velocity

25 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Hokkaido
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One Identity Masked, Another Created

25 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya, back of
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Control Over Who You Want to Be

25 Feb 2010

In: Future Perfect, Omotesando
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Who are you? Or more to the point who do you want to be? Over time, more of the the social cues for communicating when a …
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Blue Rinse

25 Feb 2010

In: Future Perfect, Shimo Kitazawa
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A familiar sight in the (toilet-bowl-using) world over. But it could and ultimately will, be so much more. Expat discussions about toilets in Japan tend to center …
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Behaviour: Elevators vs Urinals

22 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Meguro
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The social rules in elevators start out similar to male urinals: maximise the distance between you and anyone else present. The major difference in terms …
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Texture Contrasts

22 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Silence is Subjective

22 Feb 2010

In: Akedake, Future Perfect
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With cold + windchill + exhaustion + worse weather kicking it was probably the closest I’ve been to the edge where you really don’t know how it’s all going to turn out and the clock is ticking. There was a point where I’d trekked off to scout what was to be another failed route…
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