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Second-foot
Fifteen kuai (US $2.50) gets you installed one lightly used replacement heel. Would you only replace one heel, though? Consider that option against buying a new set of shoes, and the calculations...
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Luck steps
These insoles are meant to preserve the insides of wearer’s shoes. They also bear messages: Right: “to have surplus” Left: “Riches & Honor” / “wealth and rank” The idea that a physical step...
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Embrace
Observed in a Hong Kong subway station, a clever means of both securing one’s jacket to oneself (without the need to drape it over one’s shoulders or stuff it into one’s bag) and sheltering/insulating...
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rent v. buy
In this Hong Kong alleyway amidst pasted bills advertising a commodity more traditionally thought of as either being rented or bought – namely, physical space – is a seemingly novel offer. Consider...
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No-face
Consider the “purpose” of a clothing model. While some prospective customers will imagine “switching places” with the dummy, themselves wearing the displayed clothing, others may take comfort in the...
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Transparency
In a shopping mall in Chengdu, a implicit statement about the level of trust management/ownership has of customers as shown through the design of their shopping bags likely designed to prevent...
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Ready to roll
How street vendors display their wares reflect their tenuous situation as they tread in the grey zone of quasi-legality. Each informal enterprise one encounters falls somewhere on the spectrum of...
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Re:brand: Chicago Bulls
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of yaks to daily life in Tibet. They are pack animals that enable logistics, their hair is becomes tent fabric, their dung fuels fire, and the butter from...
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Your supply chain is showing
Walking past a department in central Amsterdam, a glance through the right window reveals how things work. While this could well have been a note written from one staff member to another, odds are...
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Red light business models
What role does the seemingly incongruous availability of internet (via the several desktop computers inside) play in this laundromat’s business model? Maybe the shop is just outdated, or the owner...
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