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Holding a Mirror up to the Outsider

Tokyo: skate park
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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24 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms
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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
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Light. Sabre.

09 Jan 2013

In: Design Inspiration
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Sharp. Store.

06 Jan 2013

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Cutting implement storage.
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Head/Toe

05 Jan 2013

In: Cultural Norms
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Robotic. Hypnotic.

01 Jan 2013

In: Design Inspiration
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Is this the year that Japan bounced back, or goes deeper into the morass? Mobile phone rmote controlled robot, Tokyo.
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Adi-table

25 Oct 2012

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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Branded dining.
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Sponsorship & Disgrace

17 Oct 2012

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya
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How does athletic sponsorship and doping disgrace play out when digital memories are more persistent, and its easier to storify past hype? How does our perception …
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Tky Blr

01 Oct 2012

In: Today's Office
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I’m not a fan of the 24-hours in a city dynamic especially a city as magnificent as Tokyo. Is it better to have nibbled on …
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