Tag Archives: london

Wireless Fireworks

In order to communicate with its surroundings, London-based interaction design agency Unit9 has attached an interactive public screen to its building which allows passers-by to fill it with drawings coming…

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A Dystopian Eco-Commune By Richard Hardy


The video The Eco-Commune by Richard Hardy is a short film exploring a dystopian vision of London in the near future. The economic meltdown of 2009 has…

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Psychogeographic London

Emilie Giles is an interaction designer who recently launched Lost London, a pervasive game that focuses on the forgotten places and networks that exist within the…

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The London Underground Live

Birmingham-based webdesigner Matthew Somerville created a great mash-up that provides live insight in locations of all Underground trains in and around London. The yellow…

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Supertramp By Lehman B

‘Supertramp’ – a new alternative ‘future platform’ initiative by recently founded do-tank Lehman B – is officially embarking on its maiden voyage in and around London’s urban amazingness…

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Excluding Fences For Community Reclaim

The site for the London 2012 Olympic Games has been surrounded by almost 18 kilometers of blue plywood security fence since construction began in 2006. Since then, the fence has…

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Don’t Waste Spaces, Light Them!

Wasted Spaces is a London-based non-profit art organization that transforms vacant shop fronts and unused properties into exciting art experiences. This attracts new audiences and gives them the…

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Arrow, Crane


To inform the world about their (free) Ovi Maps mobile navigation software, Nokia built a house-sized, interactive signpost in the form of a dynamically rotating…

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Roktic Pops Up Again At London’s Brick Lane

In a modern metropolitan experience-focused society everything is about the ‘momentum’ — clubs, shops and bars, among others, are hot the first two years before they slip back into oblivion. We’re…

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Clouds Of Data In The London Sky

It’s called a “celebration of technology” by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Recently an impressive international team of…

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How Bus Shelters Become Art Installations

For the occasion of the Artists Taking The Lead fund, designers Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu have proposed an installation of approximately 40 1.75m x 1.3m LED panels…

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Online Shopping Gets Real For One Week In East London

Online fashion retailer Roktic has opened one of the heaviest short-term pop-up stores I’ve ever heard of. For only one week Roktic will land at the East Gallery at London’s fashionable Brick…

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New: Knitted Phone Booth Sleeve

Sleeves for the iPhone are available in every single material and colour. The ‘WePhone’ (the public phone) on the contrary never had such a fancy jacket.
Of course…

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On Kiosks, Part 3: Strategy

In this last article in a series about the importance of the kiosk, I’ll cover an initiative that took of this summer in London, called KiosKiosk.…

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Find Your Way Underground With AR

We all know Augmented Reality (AR) is the next big thing. Enhanced by the iPhone’s 3.0 OS and the iPhone 3GS, AR startups, such as Layar

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