Two meetings in Seoul. Early morning commute.
For every railway, an iconic clock.
The South Korean penchant of convenience stores to place refrigerators on the street. In a world where the company that supplies the fridge, dictates the …
Very South Korean detailing on this car cover – includes space to write a phone number to allow a parking-inconvenienced neighbour to get in touch.
A small but significant social nudging behaviour by this street food seller next to Dongdaemon fabric market Seoul: as customers pass by she invites them …
https://janchipchase.com/2012/01/walking-out-of-social-contracts/
If you want to understand public interaction with displays, you need to spend time in Seoul. Seoul Metro now how more than 900 of these Digital …
Doors with phone numbers.
A Korean baby is born aged 1, when most other cultures start aged 0. Ask a Korean how old their child is and they’ll give …
A beautiful balance to this sign for a coffee roaster + cafe in a converted old-home. There’s something about drinking coffee from freshly roasted then …
A long weekend cruising around Seoul, including refills in many fine coffee establishments. This photo captures one of those fine ‘I’m not back home’ feeling …
ATM includes the usual touchscreen (at the bottom of the photo) and a display that updates infrequently – to the unobservant eye it could just …
For every food – the final preparation that takes place at the table – stirring, cutting, basting, … , and its impact on the meal …
Nice attention to detail on the entry and exit stamps for South Korea.
Choose, display your car’s environmental impact on a scale of 1 to 5.
The South Korean penchant for posting phone numbers to cars to make it easier for boxed-in neighbours to find a way out. Contact information supplied …
If you want to understand the future of displays, you need to spend time in South Korea. It’s that simple, that unevenly distributed.
A remote notification object (previously known as a pager), popular in South Korean cafes. It’s interesting how the form (octagonal, flat, fits awkwardly into pocket, …
That paying for vending machine content through mobile not hugely popular says more than that it is.
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 …
https://janchipchase.com/2010/10/inconveniencer-and-the-inconvenienced/
SOS button. And this from Switzerland.
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 …
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 …
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; …
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 …
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 …