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Tokyo: roofs for sitting on
Most people equate Tokyo with dense-urban – something the city does exceedingly well, but Tokyoites will appreciate how the city opens up in pleasant and …



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20 Nov 2011

Alpine Sparklines

18 Jul 2011

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A “small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images“. The mountain stages of the Tour de France highlighted in the window …
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Inherently Shared Objects

26 Jul 2008

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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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A Space, Lingered

21 Jun 2008

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This corner of Mishuku, fairly close to my home where the taxi driver’s pull up their rigs, take a pee in the nearby pubic lavatory, …
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Loan Advertising

04 Feb 2008

In: Cultural Norms
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Landscape vs Portrait

23 Nov 2007

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Stacked landscape in the supermarket but, due to the opening being at the end of the box, it needs to be stored vertically in in …
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Units. Smaller Units

22 Nov 2007

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A sachet of gin bought from a Accra convenience store. For any product or service how to break down the value into smaller chunks? Can’t …
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