Year: 2009
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GTI scalectrix online racer
After a few text heavy posts here’s something less brain demanding. Thanks to the London Advertising & Design Group blog I found this site for the new VW Golf GTi. Take control of your own GTi and drive it round the track as fast as possible for your chance to win a golf for 3 months…
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Evening Standard free for all
Today the evening standard relaunches after its “Sorry” campaign. Obviously, there’s quite a lot of talk about it, but not as much as I thought there might be. To set the scene, the guardian has an interview with Veronica Wadley. Saying ‘Sorry’ for the past smacks of a Soviet courtroom ‘confession’. ‘Sorry’ has all the…
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3 sites which inspire you
For a team away day we’re all given the following task: bring a screen shot of 3 sites that inspire you for a warm up discussion: 1 information giving site, 1 income generation site, 1 other Which is something I thought would be worth sharing here. So here are my three: Information giving For infomration…
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60 free desktop wallpaper designs for May from Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine have their usual monthly wallpaper showcase, and this month there’s 60 to choose from, with some really strong entries. This month I’ve picked the “creative spark” design by Vinod Batus from India. “The entire concept of this art came out when i was playing around with various photoshop brushes. The effect came in so…
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Name that tube and flag that city.
Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. You have 10 minutes to type as many of the station names as you can remember and watch as your answers get added to the map. I…
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3328 photos, 2 minutes of video, 1 song.
This is a great video, i know I take a lot of pictures but the work that went into this is astonishing. London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.
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Wallpaper of the month
Smashing magazine have got in early this month with their desktop wallpaper competition. I’ve gone for this one (bit festive but I like it), which one will you choose? www.smashingmagazine.com
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Films that fans of Chavs would like
The text competition on Richard Bacon’s radio show last night – the winner was “Lidle Miss Sumshine”
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Create a minature world with the tilt-shift maker
I like the effect that a tilt-shift lens gives – turning a bustling city into a model railway set. The effect is created using a special lens which gives a very shallow depth of field on objects far away. It’s better explained in this article: What is tilt-shift photography?. The lenses aren’t cheap (theonlinephotographer.typepad.com) but…
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Mapping out the Olympic site and beyond
The Mapperz blog has highlighted a great interactive map of the activity around the country in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. Street level details shows the latest ariel photos of the site as well as altering the map to show activities over a particular time period. An excellent example of how mapping and other media can be…