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When Design Rules Are Made To Be Broken

Geneva: pedestrian crossing
Do cultural attitudes towards obeying and breaking rules – not crossing a road except using pedestrian crossings also extend to the rules by which things …



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21 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Geneva
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Reference

21 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Hokkaido
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A digital sign capable of displaying text in any font or layout. What are the motivations for copying previous, analog sign designs? To what extent …
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Site Redesign

21 Mar 2010

In: Future Perfect, Lhasa
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A heads up for people drawing accessing Future Perfect through RSS feeds: the site is now redesigned – extenuating the visual and the wonderful., messy …
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Your Warrantee Became Void at 17:32:42

20 Mar 2010

In: Future Perfect, Ulan Bataar
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My translator negotiates a 3 month warrantee for used phone in Ulan Bataar’s mobile phone market. Batteries came with a one week guarantee. Products can store …
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Sk8 Tehran

20 Mar 2010

In: Street Hacks, Tehran
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Hacked together skate park on the edge of Tehran. My guide for the day anonymised.
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Death Notice Norms

19 Mar 2010

In: Accra, Cultural Norms
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Obituary posters on the streets of Accra – highlighting the deceased, name, nickname, age, extended family and chief mourners (above). Whether the information on the …
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Design DNA

18 Mar 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Tokyo
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Localisation is a matter of degrees. But at what point does localisation change the very DNA of the company? And is this a good or …
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Overflow Experiences

18 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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The extent that overfilling is part of the experience and the infrastructure that is required to support this.
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Design Elements that Say “Bicycle”

18 Mar 2010

In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Brands at the Point of Transaction

17 Mar 2010

In: Beverly Hills, Design Inspiration
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Credit card brands appearing directly on this Beverly Hills parking meter. Most of us will have grown used to parking meters being an everyday part of …
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