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Urban Textures

Seoul: city textures
13 Oct 2010

Mobile Vend

13 Oct 2010

In: Design Inspiration
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That paying for vending machine content through mobile not hugely popular says more than that it is.
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Inconveniencer and the Inconvenienced

13 Oct 2010



Some of you are old enough to remember address books that aren’t connected – when the loss of a little black book or mobile phone …
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Urban Interfaces

12 Oct 2010

In: Cultural Norms
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SOS button. And this from Switzerland.
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On the Rocks

12 Oct 2010

In: Cultural Norms
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The optimal ice-cube shape for chilling a glass of 18 year old malt whisky? A perfectly rounded, hand chipped ball of ice, cooling the glass …
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How We Read the City

11 Oct 2010



In Seoul for a couple of days – meetings and a refresher on the mobile landscape. One example of the hyper-connected city? The taxi’s sat-nav includes …
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MultiWorld

15 Jun 2010

In: Design Inspiration
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The ease and speed with which we effectively move to having multiple device access, and increasingly multiple screens. Implications for new forms of task-flow, interaction; …
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Big Brother / Little Sister

29 Feb 2008

In: Future Perfect
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When it comes to surveillance most people think of big brother, but increasingly its your (early adopting, tech savvy, sensor loaded) little sister. Which makes …
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Cut and Blow

24 Dec 2007

In: Cultural Norms
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A double barber’s shop sign on this Seoul street, a subtle indicator, if you know what you’re looking for, that sexual services offered in this …
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Seoul Stencil

24 Dec 2007

In: GRF
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