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Brand, Card

Brighton: TripAdvisor keycard
The loop back from digital to physical.



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28 Jul 2011

In: Brighton, Design Inspiration
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Bodily Cues

26 Jul 2011

In: Brighton, Design Inspiration
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What can your need to salivate (or not) teach us about the psychology of design? Or about the cultural differences in the psychology of design?
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Button Patina

26 Jul 2011

In: Cultural Norms, Pudong
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An at-a-glance understanding of which buttons are pressed most, based on the patina of the two left-most options – at the Shanghai customs checkpoint. To what …
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Annotated

26 Jul 2011

In: Cultural Norms, Shanghai
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In the lane near my Shanghai apartment.
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Alpine Sparklines

18 Jul 2011

In: Design Inspiration, Mishuku
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A “small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images“. The mountain stages of the Tour de France highlighted in the window …
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The Camera Fiend

18 Jul 2011

In: Future Perfect, Shanghai
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Some wonderful (paraphrased) quotes from the essay ‘The Camera Fiend‘ by Bill Jay on the early adoption of the camera, and in particular the rise …
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Perfect Crema

18 Jul 2011

In: Design Inspiration, Shanghai
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The little touches that suggest this is going to be something good. That increase the anticipation. But then which falls flat – this was a poor tasting …
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Iodine Portions

18 Jul 2011

In: Design Inspiration, Shanghai
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I’ve always thought of iodine coming in a bottle. These post-op DIY iodine swabs, are pre-dipped for easy application. Wounds healing nicely, thus far, ta.
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As We Now Are

18 Jul 2011

In: Cultural Norms, Shibuya
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Our acceptance of displays in urban environments, and how our current assumptions will shift as displays increasingly observe and react to what’s in front of …
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Is Internet Access a Human Right?

Spurred on by the reaction to the cutting of the internet (and other forms of communication) during the Egyptian revolution – I’ve penned this piece …
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