Tokyo

Contexts Of Use

Akihabara: coin and card mat
The extent to which brands wish to project (life style orientated) contexts of use. The actual contexts in which those brands are used. The degree to which …



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27 Feb 2010

In: Akihabara, Design Inspiration
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Annotated Ramp

27 Feb 2010

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Unwelcome Mats

27 Feb 2010

“Be Quiet.” Really.
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Groped

27 Feb 2010

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Motivations for Notating Currency

27 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shinjuku
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Punters of this Tokyo camera store are handed a notated coin for this scratch-off lottery card. For any given context – whether ownership needs to …
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Guides for Where To Queue

27 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Yooga
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For a bank, Yooga.
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One Identity Masked, Another Created

25 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya, back of
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Control Over Who You Want to Be

25 Feb 2010

In: Future Perfect, Omotesando
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Who are you? Or more to the point who do you want to be? Over time, more of the the social cues for communicating when a …
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Blue Rinse

25 Feb 2010

In: Future Perfect, Shimo Kitazawa
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A familiar sight in the (toilet-bowl-using) world over. But it could and ultimately will, be so much more. Expat discussions about toilets in Japan tend to center …
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Behaviour: Elevators vs Urinals

22 Feb 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Meguro
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The social rules in elevators start out similar to male urinals: maximise the distance between you and anyone else present. The major difference in terms …
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