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D.I.Y. Street Signs

Silver Lake: caution, cyclists
If you’ve driven around Los Angeles these past couple of weeks you’ll have come a across these DIY street signs with “Caution – Cycles – …



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13 Apr 2010

In: Silver Lake, Street Hacks
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The Sound of Closure

13 Apr 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Los Angeles
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Having successfully played dodgeball with H1N1 these past few months and with a long bout of infection-friendly travel coming up managed to finally get a …
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Optimal Field Study Team Size

13 Apr 2010

In: Jacarezihno, Research Methods
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You’re planning a project and are wondering how many people to commit to the field study. Whilst there are a lot of variables that will …
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Core versus Extended Team

13 Apr 2010

In: Research Methods, Rio de Janeiro
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One useful distinction when it comes to planning field work is to think in terms of core and extended team members. Core team members are usually …
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Pre-Caching Behaviours

12 Apr 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Tibet
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Train across the Tibetan Plateau – being out in remoter climes makes for a good place to test mapping software. Unsurprisingly this is not a …
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Planes, Trains, Automobiles & Mammals

12 Apr 2010

In: Research Methods, Tibet
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Sometimes project goals suggest particularly extensive travel – either driven by the need to have on the ground experience of a broad spectrum of geographies, …
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Making Decisions Closer to the Edge

11 Apr 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Niseko
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Insurance vending machines for travelers at Haneda Airport (below) making it possible to sign up for snow-sports insurance at that moment where your meet the …
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Monsoon Portrait

10 Apr 2010

In: Dharavi, Research Methods
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Directly behind me are a family of 4, plus 2 team members conducting the interview, plus ~6 kids from the neighbourhood crammed into a 6 …
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Retrospective Facial Recognition

For any given culture what are the drivers and mechanisms for obscuring / censoring portions of content? How will the recording and pixellation of pornography …
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Ownership = Target

09 Apr 2010

In: Beijing, Design Inspiration
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Spotted on a few occasions in and around Beijing – cars with wheels protected from the bursting bladders of passing dogs. A scattergun of thoughts to …
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