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Caution Fragile

Tokyo: Caution Fragile_1
06 Oct 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Conden-sation

06 Oct 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Thought Lite

04 Oct 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Meguro
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Ten days of workshops to brain dump/extrapolate five years of research. The pop-traditional Japanese packaging? For an occasional sugar rush brain food.
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Activity Frames

02 Oct 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya, back of
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No smoking between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 – rare to see time boundaries for this activity. The increasing ability to monitor what kind …
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Personalised? Tampered With?

24 Sep 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Passing through Heathrow earlier this month I found myself being screened by a trainee baggage checker who, pointing to a decorative sticker on my laptop …
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Emergency Telecom

24 Sep 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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The dis/advantages of labelling infrastructure used for emergency telecom with signage indicating it’s used for emergency telecommunications? The dis/advantages of mislabelling objects in public spaces.
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An Open Invitation to Riot

21 Sep 2007

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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“Under security camera surveillance” “Please do not get into mischief”
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Behavioural U-Turns

19 Sep 2007

In: Future Perfect, Tokyo
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Today’s movie goers are penalised for recording segments of movie on their mobile phone. How long before movie goers are rewarded by the movie studios …
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Tensions That

18 Sep 2007

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Tensions that hold an object in a fixed place. The degree to which that tension leverages the itself, the properties of the objects around it. Digital …
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A Human Scale

18 Sep 2007

In: Tokyo
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Had a wander through the recently completed Tokyo MidTown this weekend – and whilst it is a shopping mall / office complex and the mere …
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