Journey’s By Rail
Whilst the team has traveled across time zones to be here, in many ways our journey starts here in the hot bustling haze of today’s on the fly office – Beijing’s West Station. The last time I passed...
View ArticleFinding Flow
With a week’s worth of home and contextual visits under our belts and an ongoing exploration of the local ecosystem we’ve reached that point of turning design insights into something a little more...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Driving School?
What do you need to create a driving school? Ideally a cul-de-sac, pedestrians keeping a wide berth, having objects to avoid running over. And someone taking money.
View ArticleYou Don’t Say?
Last day in Handan and I’m part of a crowd watching five guys dressed in light green uniforms use grappling hooks and a limp lasso to gently hook a head-down floater out of the canal. I can’t help...
View ArticleThe Adoption Curve is Shifting
Short think-piece for an upcoming issue of the Asia Design Journal… “As much as we might imagine our designs in the hands of our constituents and customers – ready to be touched and molded to the...
View ArticleNatural Router / Tree Hacks
Trees hacked to optimise the shade for pedestrians and vehicles – creates a natural space for routing phones lines and electricity cables.
View ArticleService Advertising
An almost poetic level of advertising – next to each and every door in this housing estate. Mostly for sewage removal services. How long before the volumes of geo-tagged spam render certain spatial...
View ArticleEntering Elevator, Social Contract
Welcome mat spanning the entire floor of this Handan elevator. To what extent does walking on a welcome mat imply some form of social contract? How about walking through a door? Picking up an object?...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Orgins
The articulated freshness of food, where you can see what you;re about to eat prior to it being killed, is a feature of Asian cuisine – from recent experience – staring fondly into the eyes of a fish...
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