But, as the meticulously researched Retro Report points out this week, it was all a hoax.
He recontextualised this research on ethnic, retro and techno cultures in designs that he started to manufacture under the Fiorucci label from 1970, with its logo of two Victorian-print cherubs, flirty behind sinful sunglasses.
Kwok is keen on taking Algorithmic Menagerie to various venues, but he's also already at work on a new demo for Emergent Reality Lab, where he's doing some research work on retro game experience of Konami's Contra Stage 2 (originally designed for Nintendo).
Her anecdotal research, she said, suggests that Retro Renovation readers are much like her, highly visual and results-minded.
The Mintel International Group, a research company, calls that concept "new retro" and lists it among a dozen trends that will shape the marketing of consumer packaged goods in 2011.
The Retro-Tek research project investigates the potential of existing buildings in the UK contributing towards the EU 2050 CO2 target, through a sustainable retrofit programme aimed specifically at empty homes.
I've always wondered if charity shops' "retro rails" are the result of research or wild guesses (judging by the hilarious prices in some of them), but the Red Cross takes it pretty seriously.
Market research firm NPD Group says that of the top five retro games released in 2003 for platforms made by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, four were Namco Museum titles that included Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man or both.
In 2004, drawing on my research on the history of Mumbai, I had written the outline for a retro film noir aimed at capturing the momentous transformation of Mumbai's milieu of jazz clubs and industrial society in the 1960s.
Here are the top 10 of the most expensive retro games currently sold in Tokyo's Akihabara district (based on my research in about 10 stores).
