Design Museum Ross Phillips / SHOWstudio 2009-06-05T09:23:59+00:00 dynamo london regular contributor, Ross Phillips, has a great new installation in the Super Contemporary exhibition that has just opened at the Design Museum. For this interactive installation, four pods around London take short videos of the heads, bodies or legs of the people standing in front. It's like those flip books you had as a kid where you could mix and match different body parts from policemen, bakers, firemen etc, only this is with video and it's real people. The website records the people captured to date. Very Ross Phillips. Very cool. I really like interactive stuff that doesn't need, keyboards, touch screens, or elaborate arrays of expensive displays. This is all good fun. 213 0 Ross Phillips 0 0 0 0 2010-03-11T08:09:44+00:00 21 475 http://www.designmuseum.org/headtotoe/ The Royal Household Bang and The Royal Household 2009-02-12T14:02:16+00:00 I'm not sure what to say about this yet. I suppose it's progress. 200 0 0 0 0 2 2010-03-10T22:22:35+00:00 21 497 http://www.royal.gov.uk/ Transport for London 2008-12-05T12:02:49+00:00 So TfL launch a bunch of useful looking travel tools, some of which are intended for downloading to use on mobile phones. The icons look suspiciously like iPhone buttons, but I can't see iPhone in the list of compliant phones. Shame on you TfL. See the list: www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/mobileservices/other.asp See my post about iPhone: www.dynamolondon.org/projects/117 188 0 0 1 0 1 2010-03-10T06:10:57+00:00 21 729 http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/traveltools/default.aspx morelonson, Southwark Council, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Tiscali Paul St George, Two Four Digital 2008-05-28T10:43:27+00:00 Its a little know fact but apparently there is a subertanean tunnel running directly between New York City and London. Until very recently the tunnel has remained dormant and incomplete, this was until artist Paul St George unearthed the plans for the tunnel and set about uncovering it. Although in accessible to the public, an intricate set of mirrors and prisms that we built into the tunnel have been reactivated for a short time. So head down to the southbank and have a look at New Yorkers looking back at you. Or vice versa if you are in New York. The full story is on the website: 165 0 Two Four Digital 1 0 0 0 2010-03-11T07:29:25+00:00 13 767 http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/home.php Booktrust - Get London Reading KentLyons 2008-05-14T14:43:56+00:00 Get London Reading is a campaign by Booktrust to get Londoners reading books set in London. To promote the campaign, KentLyons have created a selection of installations around London, showing extracts from books in situ. The extracts appear on pavements, windows and rubbish, as though the words have fallen from a book. http://www.getlondonreading.co.uk 157 0 3 1 1 0 378 2010-03-11T07:44:39+00:00 378 741 http://www.flickr.com/photos/26527080@N07/sets/72157605048754154/ Greater London Authority 2008-04-18T14:47:41+00:00 This is the newly launched, official London Election website. It's 'job' is to engage Londoners in the elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. Cool features include animations showing how to vote and how the results are calculated, a countdown clock, a tool that automatically downloads key election dates straight into your Outlook or iCal calendar, and borough pages where Londoners can find information on the election in their area and upload their own borough and London photographs. Matt Bright,Communications Manager at London Elects, said of the site: “As well as creativity, accessibility has been an essential factor in the design of the londonelects.org.uk website. London has the most diverse population in the UK so it is important we provide clear information and connect with people of all ages and backgrounds, in all of London’s boroughs." Nice to see that the experts are realising how important design is when outreach is on the agenda. I think this site is slick and simple, with all the ease & functionality that I've come NOT to expect from these kind of public governmental sites. 147 0 1 1 1 0 165 2010-03-09T19:23:55+00:00 165 661 http://www.londonelects.org Themselves CASA, UCL 2008-04-02T00:14:57+00:00 Recently met these very interesting guys down at CASA – the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. They were responsible for the Virtual London model. Just a great blog crammed with urban visual experiments, playing with mash-ups, tutorials and 3D tube maps in all dimensions and colours. 140 0 Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith and the people at CASA 0 3 2 0 2010-03-07T20:40:58+00:00 23 713 http://digitalurban.blogspot.com Central St Martins Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon 2008-02-19T23:44:06+00:00 What do you see if you actually take time to look around you? This site is a beautifully observed journey through central London, looking closely at the abundance of architectural lettering to be seen on the sides of buildings along the way. The site was lovingly photographed and written by Phil Baines (Head of Graphic Design at Central St Martins) and Catherine Dixon. I first saw this site a couple of years ago, although it was based on some research that Phil did almost ten years ago. I'm sure it went offline for a while - my bookmark certainly wasn't connecting to it. I saw Phil quite recently and he assured me that it was still up there. So here it is... If you're at all interested in typography, what are you waiting for? 132 0 Photography and writing: Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon. Design and development: Matt Hyde, Jack Schulze and George Agnelli. 1 0 1 0 2010-03-11T08:00:54+00:00 21 702 http://publiclettering.org.uk 2008-01-10T20:28:03+00:00 This is part of the Music Maratone Project by the composer ( songs and lyrics ) Creating and spreading the songs for the world, hymns for the universe A true Music Maratone The concept also includes the Website www.olympic-song.com and The Olympic Song Messengers ( with SkyJays, TrainJays, SpaceJays ) who will be formed in several countries and cities to carry the Musical Torch ( see the Burning Guitar Logo on the video ) and spread the songs and the message. True to the spirit of the Maratone, the lyrics for the London Olympic Song Urban Underground will have about 100 pages of lyrics and will keep growing. You can experience part of the lyrics on www.olympic-song.com. Each song ( The Olympic Song „Celebrate Humanity!“, London Olympic Song „Say Hello 2 Your Global Village“ and the London Olympic Rap „Power of the word“ and other songs will also be rendered in several variations ( Pop, Jazz, ACapella etc. ) Keep visiting www.olympic-song.com for more songs and lyrics. We’ll keep adding songs and lyrics and keep the spirit of the Music-Maratone alive 123 0 0 0 0 2 2010-03-11T07:07:56+00:00 252 822 http://www.olympic-song.com Nokia Wieden & Kennedy London, United Visual Artists 2007-11-30T07:19:10+00:00 I'm sure with the way the world is going there wont be enough electricity to power christmas lights in a few years time. So make the most of these while they last. Upwardly mobile W&K team up with über cool United Visual Artists to do an interactive take on the christmas light show. Or perhaps this is better described as 'reactive'. The appearance of the lights is controlled by pedestrain flow, weather and other external influences. How very 'now'. In fact the only thing which is more 'now' than this, is the Spitalfields christmas light. One single low energy saving bulb, which was switched on yesterday. 120 0 W&K London, United Visual Artists, P2 Group, Piggott’s, The Crown Estate, Regent Street Association 3 2 0 0 2010-03-11T02:18:16+00:00 13 854 http://www.wklondon.com/