Clothes rack repaired with tape and repurposed as a drying + storage system for rags used by rubbish center staff.
Materials: Clothes Rack, Coat Hanger, Duct Tape, Bags
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Foam and duct tape create a safe + scratch free parking spot in a tight location.
(Note also how in the left-hand space storage trumps cars)
Materials: Duct Tape, Foam
Location: Nagoya
Several oil cans cut apart, joined together with duct tape and painted form a large commercial-use outdoor rubbish bin.
Location: Nagoya
Materials: Duct Tape, Oil Can, Paint
Watch out for burglars! This frugal signage warns residents of ambient dangers.
Materials: Laminated Paper, Duct Tape
Location: Nagoya
Narrow frontage and cluttered streets combined with a fast-pasted real estate sector call for flexible, cheap and prominent signage on Shibuya streets. This one combines laminated paper attached to a horizontal signpost and secured with wire and duct tape.
Materials: Laminated Paper, Wire, Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Street fire extinguisher storage secured with duct tape.
Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Signage in subway station warning of purse-snatchers.
Materials: Duct Tape, Laminated A4
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo
Community saftey signage in subway station – watch out for purse snatchers, “Ore Ore” sagi, and break-ins.
Materials: Duct Tape, Laminated A4
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo
Direction sign for Tokyo Tower at Akabanebashi Subway Station. Constructed of tourist brochure cut-outs and classic Tokyo public trasport duct tape lettering.
Materials: Duct Tape, Tourist Brochure
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo
No parking, no smoking signage in laminated paper and duct tape. Interesting triangular folded signage on corner.
Materials: Laminated Paper, Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Flying fox in a playground casually fixed with duct tape.
Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Nagoya, Aichi
Cracks in station seating repaired with tape. The gaps between three of the seats are also covered with tape..I wonder why…
Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Nagoya, Aichi
Laminated signage in an inner city apartment complex.
Materials: Duct Tape, Laminated Paper
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo
Edging of signage made safe with foam and duct tape.
Materials: Foam, Duct Tape
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo
The outdoor menu for this food store is secured with plastic twine taped to two bricks, the base evened out with broken paving tiles.
Materials: Bricks, Paving Slab, Plastic Twine, Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
From Jared Braiterman (Tokyo Green Space): “I recently saw this crazy Fix on the Marunouchi’s Nakano Sakaue platform. I understand they are doing work, but it seems particularly ad hoc and possibly dangerous on the platform.”
Materials: Duct Tape, Safety Sponge
Location: Nakano Sakaue, Tokyo
“Apartment number 303 is currently vacant, and as a result the building owners have placed green tape over the letterbox to prevent it from filling up with advertising mail. Whenever an apartment is vacant they always tape up the letterbox with green tape.
It appears the occupants of apartment 202 have gone on an extended holiday or business trip and will be leaving the apartment vacant long enough for surplus advertising mail to become a problem. Therefore they, or the building owners, have placed white tape over the letterbox.
If the occupants taped up the letterbox themselves I think to myself “Creative thinking 202″. If the building owners did this then I wonder “Is the different color tape significant, or is it just what they had on hand on the day they taped up the box?, Does green mean vacant and white mean temporarily unoccupied? If so doesn’t this signal to potential burglars that 202 is where the goodies are?”.
This mystery remains unsolved.” – courtesy of Byron Kidd – Thanks again Byron!
Materials: Duct Tape
“It appears big brother is watching this garbage disposal area but closer inspection reveals that the camera is a cleverly crafted replica made from a plastic bottle wrapped in black duct tape, sporting two drawing pins and with an old stereo cord added to complete the effect. I chuckle every time I pass partly at the fact that its not fooling anybody and partly at the fact that someone crafted and installed the device.” – courtesy of Byron Kidd
Materials: Pet Bottle, Stereo Cord, Duct Tape, Drawing Pins
Duct tape across post box signals an unoccupied house.
Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Unneeded refrigerator covered in plastic sheeting and secured with duct tape acts as potplant stand at the back of a building in Sendagaya, Tokyo.
Materials: Plastic Sheet, Duct Tape
Location: Sendagaya, Tokyo
Duct tape queueing lanes at the train station.
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
Materials: Duct Tape
The practice of taping up post boxes in apartment complexes stops excess junk-mail and also serves as a signal as to which apartments may be available for rent.
Material: Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Wooden board leant on airconditioner and affixed with tape completes the transformation of dead-space to storage space.
Materials: Wooden Board, Tape, Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Take a clothes rack, decorate the telescoping poles with red and yellow electrical tape. Then design (in Excel), print and laminate some promotional posters and affix them to the top rung with more electrical tape. Stabilize the whole thing with four full PET bottles of water secured with duct tape to the base.
Materials: Clothes Rack, Duct Tape, Electrical Tape, Laminated Paper
Location: Aoyama Dori, Tokyo
