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The Day After the Comma

Tokyo: rush hour
For the past six weeks I’ve been gently nudging up my time-zone count to reach UCT+9, Tokyo Standard Time. Yesterday was a comma in six …



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24 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Osaka
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Urban Geometry: The Mental Curb

24 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Main. Stream.

24 May 2013

In: GRF, Parco
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Road Line

24 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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246 from Loftwork. It takes a few years to come to terms with a motorway running through the heart of the city, omnipresent lay lines …
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Holding a Mirror up to the Outsider

24 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Kinda sweet when the Shibuya skatepark bans the dinky skateboards that are for sale by all-and-sundry shops in Harajuku these days. What elements of (now …
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Passive Aggressive Offerings

24 May 2013

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya, back of
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Not entirely sure this is intentional or not: Tokyo cafe offers free wifi to it’s customers, but then makes the login and password so …
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In the Balance

23 Mar 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Light. Sabre.

09 Jan 2013

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Sharp. Store.

06 Jan 2013

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Cutting implement storage.
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Head/Toe

05 Jan 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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