dynamo london

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.... read more

tags: action, art, creativity, entertainment, Gallery, head, installation, interact, interaction, interactive, london, performance, personal, toe, video

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I'm not sure what to say about this yet. I suppose it's progress. read more

tags: cultural, information, london, Royal, self-promotion, website

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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/m... read more

tags: customise, environmental, icon, information, interface, locations, london, mapping, mobile, transport, underground

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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 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 automaticall... read more

tags: design, london, Mayor, Politics, vote

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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. read more

tags: blog, digital, how-to, london, mapping, tutorials, urban

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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 Ph... read more

tags: architecture, cultural, design, london, typography

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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... read more

tags: 2012, beat, carta, cultural, london, magna, Melodique, music, Olympic, rap, song, underground, urban

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