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Extenuating Posture

Tokyo: extenuating postures
24 Aug 2008

In: Azabu Juban, Cultural Norms
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Signed, Sealed

23 Aug 2008

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Books in Japan are by default sealed – if you want to read you gotta, er, have the yen to hand over the Yen. In …
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Today’s Office: Dawn

11 Aug 2008

In: Today's Office
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Wake up to a dawn over the pacific. 90 minutes before touch down, coffee arrives. Head down / write up field notes.
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Inherently Shared Objects

26 Jul 2008

In: Design Inspiration, Mishuku
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Instructions for sharing written on the side of this 100% orange juice lolly. The extent that sharing is actively supported, implied in the design. The …
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Alternate States

23 Jul 2008

In: Today's Office, Tokyo
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Monday afternoon taking a teleconference call from home – sharing the line with an early riser in Espoo, and a LA based Design Studio colleague …
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Postures of Use

19 Jul 2008

In: Design Inspiration, Komazawa
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Our Augmented World

08 Jul 2008

In: Daikanyama, Design Inspiration, Future Perfect
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In a future perfect world where a % of the urban population is wearing or carrying a device that is capable of augmenting reality what …
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Reflections

08 Jul 2008

In: Omotesando, Today's Office
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For the next two hours this is my office – a sofa in the Lotus, located in a Omotesando back alley. I’ve spent the day …
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Ambient Reality Checks

07 Jul 2008

In: Research Methods, Tokyo
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If you’ve ever tried managing a cross-cultural project where the team hails from Europe, China and India you’ve probably come across decimal place separator issues. …
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Incentivised Recycling

30 Jun 2008

In: Cultural Norms, Sangenjaya
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The mental distance between the act of recycling, and what happens with what is recycled. My neighbourhood paper recycling van in Sangenjaya drops off (recycled) …
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