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Paranoia / Re-assurance / Paranoia / etc

Tokyo: Entrance
A furniture store staff entrance. Mirrors to check you, to check self. The documentation, self-documentation arms race.



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14 Oct 2007

In: Tokyo
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Night Walker

14 Oct 2007

In: Cultural Norms, Meguro
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Booklet advertising sex-services posted on pedestrian route frequently used by office workers. In many cultures phone booths are the advertising battleground for sex service advertsing – …
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Inherent Properties

14 Oct 2007

In: Jyu Gaoka
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The properties that make this a suitable space for dumping bags of dog excrement, and a sign to encourage owners not to do the same. …
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Sound

14 Oct 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Roppongi Hills
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Exploration of sound, and ways of creating sounds at Kurikku. A user interface designer’s playground.
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Light

14 Oct 2007

In: Roppongi Hills
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The lighting set from Minimal Tokyo’s Spielfilm generating an algorithmic response to the sound – walking the line between abstraction and visual closure. In the future …
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Subtle Changes in Behaviour

11 Oct 2007

In: Tokyo
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For the Pasmo contact-less travel card used around Tokyo. From their blurb: “Do not stick labels or anything similar on the card, as this may …
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Clustering Behaviours

11 Oct 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Design cues that would encourage people to hang their umbrella on the outside edge? (Yeah, regardless of whether thats desireable)
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Primary, Secondary Purpose Cues

11 Oct 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Platform, Exit

06 Oct 2007

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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East & West

06 Oct 2007

In: Sakura Shinmachi
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The complimentary nature of two objects not normally associated with one another – wooden chopsticks used to remove (a stuck tortillas) from a toaster.
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