dynamo london

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. Althou... read more

tags: american, Artists, city, community, connection, gaze, immersive, installation, live, locations, london, urban

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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 h... read more

tags: 2008, books, booktrust, brick, campaign, city, community, Get, gorrilla, graffiti, installations, lane, literature, london, Reading, stencil, typography

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This is the supposedly 'long awaited' Stag & Dove dating website. It is a webcam dating site for young creative professionals. It is an interesting idea, but in my opinion (as a young creative professional who was, until recently, single), this site is a classic example of trying way too hard... read more

tags: branding, community, dating, interactive, social

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East London studio, Bold Creative have recently redesigned their site. In my opinion, it is totally "Web 2.0". What I think is so great about this site is that the design features fully-integrated links to thier flickr, myspace, youtube and blog pages. Bold Creative's site is spot-on for thei... read more

tags: bold, community, design, interactive, studio, usability

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This site has been running for 6 years. The site is conceived by two artists, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. The basic idea is to set 'assignments' to anyone, anywhere who wishes to participate. The site has become a gallery space which people use to display their work. Some people (American... read more

tags: american, art, assignments, community, creativity, Film, Gallery, love, prestel, website

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We live in an increasingly conscientious age, all of our actions have reactions. As designers we should be leading on these issues, not just as a commercial imperative, but as part of a wider change in our approach. "Three trees is a is a not for profit enterprise set up to help everyone invol... read more

tags: community, design, education, environmental, female, information, resource, sustainability

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Although I do like cookery books, and there's something very satisfying about opening an old one and seeing the evidence of attempted previous recipes, I very rarely buy them. I use the internet to find recipies quite a lot and until I found this site I would use the BBC's own Food section. BB... read more

tags: 2.0, bbc, blog, community, food, poke, publishing, typography

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I've worked off and on over the years for Moving Brands, and at Christmas they sent me a scarf - which is lovely - but the way it was made is pretty exciting: it was co-created by the Moving Brands ecosystem (ie. them and everyone they know). I've copied and pasted the blurb from the Weare websit... read more

tags: branding, brands, co-created, community, creativity, design, fashion, fashion, interactive, interface, interface, Internet, moving, narrative, social, Storytelling, web

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Bill Moggridge, celebrated cofounder of product design company IDEO, is Chairing a quite staggering array of speakers and events for the Connecting07 World Design Congress in San Francisco. This is a biannual affair, hosted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid)... read more

tags: 2007, community, conference, creativity, design, digital, education, event, information, world

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