Tokyo

Expected Use

Tokyo: not make love room
Bathroom ign in my local Sangenjaya bar – in the early hours customers have been known to retreat to the only place with some privacy. …



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17 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Sangenjaya
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Umbrella Positioning

17 Mar 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Shibuya
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Glued to the service counter in JR Railways Shibuya – to position the umbrella whilst the customer’s hands are otherwise engaged.
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A Cone. A Perfect Cone.

16 Mar 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Shibuya, back of
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My Back Yard and Yours

15 Mar 2010

How to encourage recycling and at what level. Japanese consumers are required to pay a recycling fee for any electronics larger than a ~toaster – …
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Expiry Dates / Perception of Validity

12 Mar 2010

In: Daikanyama, Future Perfect
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During a routine credit card transaction recently in the UK the sales person took the card, checked the expiry date and tutted “It’s just about …
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Ad Literacy

05 Mar 2010

In: Future Perfect
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Facebook’s ad platform is the Flip of advertising: smart, simple and just enough to be effective. If you haven’t already tried Facebook’s advertising platform you should …
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Efficiency in Informal Markets

04 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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Lady on the right of the photo sits at a make-shift in desk front of Shibuya Station issues receipts to her scouts in return for …
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To Miss You Is To Love You

04 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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Aibo is gone, but not forgotten But also not missed What does that say?
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Shared Solitary Serial Experiences

04 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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Two Tokyoites – on the right of the photo engaged in the same task watching the same television program on their mobile phone each using …
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Copycat Behaviours

27 Feb 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Higashi Yama
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Futons aired on only one floor of a housing estate in Higashi Yama – the extent to which our assumptions about behavioural norms are framed …
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