Mobile Identity

Jan Chipchase's colleague and Tokyo design studio neighbour Younghee Jung wrote about "the South Korean practice of sticking a mobile phone number to the windshield of their car to make it easier to contactable in the event the car is an obstruction and needs moving. These are not one-off hand-written notes but formal stickers. More on Younghee Jung's site here.

It's an interesting and common example of the trade-off between convenience in this instance mostly for the benefit of others and giving up information that some people consider to be private."

[via Jan Chipchase Future Perfect]

emily | 9:22 PM | News, Buzz |
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