Seiji Okamoto was getting desperate as his supervisor continued pestering him to come up with a money-saving solution for a new safety project along a Tokyo subway line.
When I first arrived at my university chemistry department, the administrative assistant ordered 500 business cards for me, to serve as a tangible way for me to exchange contact information and to act as a marketing tool to generate business. Well, I don’t know 500 people and it is unlikely that in ten years I will have very many contacts of a business nature. Also, it is useless to hand them out to faculty and staff as they already know who I am. There was a mistake on the first set of cards, so a corrected set was ordered. But, this time they sent one thousand cards. I thought of making some sort of collage; but, where to put it?