“Good business is the best art”, Andy Warhol once said. It’s a sentiment that may well have formed an ill-advised strap line to Tate Modern’s much lauded Pop Life: Art in a Material World.
Read more...November 20, 2009
November 16, 2009
Food Secret: Nutritious Fast (Fastidious) Food
Based on a foundation of fresh produce, international culinary techniques and solid nutritional value, Food Secret is trying to position itself as London’s health conscious take-away of choice.
Read more...November 11, 2009
Digital Cloud To Float Above London’s Olympic Games
Will the Digital Cloud design fly over London’s Olympic Games?
Read more...October 28, 2009
British Airways Launches Metrotwin Mumbai
Following their launch of Metrotwin last year, a social community that twins different things to do and places to see in New York and London, British Airways have now added another city to their fold – Mumbai.
Read more...October 22, 2009
Stephen King Gets Fans Playing Literary Hide-And-Seek
Stephen King’s latest novel Under The Dome is not due to be released till November 10th, but in the meantime, fans have the opportunity to get a copy of it early, if they have the patience to unravel a series of clues that is.
Read more...September 23, 2009
Bus-Tops: A Shared Digital Canvas For London Bus Stops
As part of the “Artists Taking The Lead” program, which invited all UK artists to submit proposals for art projects that are to be displayed during the 2012 Summer Olympics, designers Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu have created “Bus-Tops”.
Read more...Local Currency Watch: The Brixton Pound
Brixton, the south London area in the Borough of Lambeth famed for it’s diverse community, has decided to single handedly combat the recession within it’s borders through an ingenious adaptation of money.
Read more...September 16, 2009
Creative Inspiration from Behance III
Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.
Read more...(Pics) Selfridges London Displays ABCs of the Future
To celebrate 100 years of existence, Selfridges London put products from a century into the future on window display. Each object was assigned a letter and formed the ABCs of tomorrow.
Read more...September 14, 2009
Wispa Gold Gives Advertising Space To Its Fans
To celebrate the return of Wispa Gold and say thank you to fans of the chocolate bar, Cadbury is offering up £2 million worth of advertising space for fans to potentially have their personal messages displayed on the brand’s billboards throughout the UK and Ireland.
Read more...Hacking 80’s Gadgets with the Nokia N900: PUSH N900 London Launch
Yesterday, we were invited to the launch of PUSH N900 at the One Dot Zero event in London, a design, hacking and modding competition organized by Nokia.
Read more...September 10, 2009
Performing the Longest Musical Composition Ever Written
For the first time ever, Jem Finer will be leading a live performance of a 1,000 minute section of his 1,000 year-long ‘Longplayer’ at London’s Roundhouse Theatre.
Read more...September 1, 2009
Yu Jordy Fu’s Recycled Paper Chandelier
At this year’s 100% Design Event, designer Yu Jordy Fu created ‘cloud walk’, a nine-meter-long white recycled paper chandelier inspired by ancient Chinese paper cutting techniques.
Read more...August 31, 2009
Redesigning The London Underground
The London Underground is now opening up its future reputation to the public with a competition to re-design fabric moquettes…
Read more...August 28, 2009
London Looks To The Public For Brand Advice
In an attempt to consolidate London’s multiple identities into a more unified package the Greater London Authority has opened up the ideation process to all. The official invitation hopes that contractors will help engage stakeholders in order to develop London’s narrative post-2012.
Independent agency Moving Brands is already putting social media to work with its blog, A Brand for London, and Twitter account @we_are_london. These initiatives are designed to open up commentary on subjects such as London’s design DNA, architecture, and people who live there.
[via brandnew]
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