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Layers

Singapore: layer
National day flags hanging outside apartment block.



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31 Aug 2013

In: Cultural Norms
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Tailor Interface

10 May 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Little India
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Clothes for on the road/skies/trials becoming nicely worn & patched.
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A Sense of Ownership

The distance between you here (your physical presence) and you there (your public and private online presence) is closing. How might this affect us? And …
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Marginal Differences

17 Jun 2012

In: Cultural Norms
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Where every piece of static text, can change.
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ERP Seams

17 Jun 2012

In: Cultural Norms
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In a world of digital boundaries overlaid onto physical properties, how do you articulate the seams? Sign indicating the edges of the restricted zone in …
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Closure

17 Jun 2012

In: Today's Office
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Close enough to feel like you’re still in Asia, far away enough to take a red-eye. Wrapping a project for an ambitious Singaporean client.
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Creativity in a Tin

09 Jun 2012

In: Design Inspiration
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Workshop, Singapore.
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Unexpected Profit Centers

07 Jun 2012

In: Future Perfect
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Unexpected Profit Centers Somewhere in Cupertino a bean counter has a little shrine to Visa and MasterCard. Whilst the iPhone has helped redefine the ‘mobile phone’ in …
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Popup Studios

13 May 2012

In: China Town, Today's Office
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Today’s office is a 31st story penthouse overlooking Singapore. Or at least it’s notionally a penthouse, with a frog team of four having turned it …
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Air Con Norms

13 May 2012

In: China Town, Cultural Norms
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Back alley for smaller retail outlets in Singapore’s Chinatown. What the diversity of air conditioning units in use can teach us about the products sold, …
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