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cjb_japan１０年０８月

  graphics[20]  - it's funny how things change - "a smoking rule for everyone'.

cjb_tokyo１０年０８月

 storage[02]  - an efficient student desk and chair storage solution used at the iSchool building at tokyo university.

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 discreet[02]  - this nicely captures the subtle deterent cues that we apply to objects as a signal to others; closed, covered or flipped over are all nice analogue gestures that we apply to our tech and belongings.

cjb_tokyo１０年０８月

 power*players  - here's my very belated conbribution to the frog crowd sourcing project on 'power'. apple dominating the in floor hide away charging sockets. made to fit? i'm not sure but geometrically it's a pretty nice fit

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 e-money  -  my love affair with japanese taxis continues [everything but the price]. does being able to use my e-transport card in them make them public transport?...seeing tokyo from a taxi gave me a new perspective on town. it's great to discover the real place after living from an underground map for so long

cjb_london１０年８月

 tools[02]  - so three pairs of these akihabara video glasses are enough to get you through a 9 hr day. i was impressed with the vid and sound they managed to capture compared to the ones we had such a fiasco with in Russia last year. no extra wires, no give-a-way screeches but hardly discrete...just put them on and go...coming to a shop along near you soon...

cjb_harajuku//tokyo１０年０８月

 streetwear[02]  - hipster #1 - a good encounter en route to harajuku last sunday.

cjb_contribution[13]_ir0g0//japan１０年０５月

 graphics[17]  - 'balanced food', think of it as walkers short bread on steroids. i used to live off this the first time i lived there. great use of text and colour. funnily it's all in english if i remember, but a japanese product? i should double check but there can't be too many examples of that?

cjb_nara０９年１１月

 graphics[18]  - not the easiest of first experiences i could have dreamed of for driving with sat nav but it got us to the temple we were looking for. look closely to see a beautiful road that followed the river through he mountains around nara prefecture.

cjb_london_and_beyond１０年０１月

 retrospective[01]  - well this is ten years of the hardware in my pocket across three different continents. it's interesting to reflect over the different bahaviours and use-patterns that go hand in hand with each one [as well as the design features i bought into at the time]. i can see where i stopped buying into 'the yearly upgrade', remember how my pay-as-you-go emergency contact phone only made it into my backback in aus and how my 'keitai' was the foundations for learning how to read and write japanese! the camera encouraged me to get my mobile out of my pocket in times other than when i was texting. but nine years of small incremental design changes didn't really engage me much more than my house keys. it's frightening how much my iPhone and the app store have started to fill idle moments; text, browse, watch...the phone app is the only one i don't really use.

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