{"id":654,"date":"2007-10-10T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/tofro\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T19:51:30","slug":"tofro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/tofro\/","title":{"rendered":"to&fro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since I’m involved with way too much technology, leading activities for tinker.it!<\/a> in London, and helping out Tom<\/a> with thinking about the future internet of things, I suppose it’s only normal I’m also spending time on technology-light projects as well.<\/p>\n

I worked on to&fro(muji)<\/a> with Dave<\/a> last August and we submitted the idea to the Muji Award 02<\/a>. The second edition of this international conference, the theme this year was “re”. Re-do, re-use, re-think etc…<\/p>\n

We focused on reviving a lost art of letter writing. Taking the idea of RE-spond, RE-use and RE-think, we wanted to inject this activity with some of the components of it’s more modern counterpart: email.<\/p>\n

The reversible envelope allows you to write the name of the sender and receiver once. As you write your letter on the perforated letter-paper provided, you can choose to tear the leftovers after you’re done (leaving no space for a reply if it’s a “dear john” kind of letter :) ) or not. Put your letter in and fold up the envelope and make sure your “to” will match the adress you’ve written down. Put a stamp on the right hand corner and send it.<\/p>\n

The person who receives it gets to open the envelope and reply with the space you’ve left, deciding whether to keep your letter or not. He\/she simply reverses the envelope (as the adress turns from “from” to “to”) includes her reply and sends it along.<\/p>\n

Check out the Flickr set<\/a> for this project.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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