Category: London
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Telling people’s stories by letting them tell it themselves.
So much of work within a communications team is about telling a story – using it to show or reinforce a connection between a person and and someone or something else. This is easier than it’s ever been in today’s digital world, and one of the key advances of the web has been its ability to empower people to…
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Telling a story over time.
Firstly, lets get this out the way: I don’t condone grafitti, but do enjoy street art, and think there can be a happy medium. In London’s E1, a street artist has been telling a story, line by line on the wall of Jerome Street. Each time the grafitti is removed, the next line of the story is…
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I went to the Olympics
I was fortunate enough to have tickets to see the athletics at the Olympic Stadium on Friday 10 August. I saw the USA women win the 4×100 relay and break the world record, and the British men narrowly miss out on a medal in the 4×400 relay as well as the 4 x 100 heats,…
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Bending the corporate control of the games.
I get regular emails from the London 2012 Olympic organisers about travel and ticket information but mostly trying to convince me to buy some official merchandise. It’s a collectors dream, everything you can think of can be sold with a London 2012 logo on for twice the normal price. There are very tight restrictions on…
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Live data visuals – fashion and cities
I’ve seen two examples of impressive live data visuals today, from two very different systems for very different projects from The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and French fashion retailer Pimkie. Color Forecast By analysing live webcam footage from Paris, Milan and Antwerp, this site collects colour information and presents it as trends for days, weeks and…
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Tube pub guide
I’m building a tube map of pubs. I have often been in the situation where I’m meeting someone for a drink at a tube station but don’t know a decent nearby pub to meet in. So I had the idea of creating a tube map where stations were replaced by pub names. Where ever you…
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£206 taken by the Olympics
I bid for four tickets and it looks like got all four – Session AT014 at the Olympic stadium on 10 August. ***** UPDATE ***** I’m getting a lot of traffic to this page with people searching for session code AT014 – Here’s a more helpful link to the Olympic site for people after useful info:…
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Old closed tube stations to become bars & more
Annie Mole’s Going Underground Blog reports that a consortium of finance, engineering, marketing and health & safety companies have been brought together byAjit Chambers fromThe Old London Underground Company to put old tube stations in central London into new use as tourism, storage space and entertainment venues (venues will become more than just bars, restaurants & clubs). Stations under…
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Olympic Stadium compared to Leyton Orient
Just out of interest I thought I’d take a look at the Olympic website and compare the size of the Olympic Stadium to Brisbane Road, the home of Leyton Orient. Using their maps (www.london2012.com/map.php), I zoomed in at the same level and took screenshots. I’ve photoshoped Brisbane Road ontop of the most recent aerial photo…
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London typographic maps
I’ve recently put up a new shower curtain, which isn’t usually something to blog about but I’m really pleased with it as it appeases my love of typography and maps. It maps London with only place names marking areas but unfortunately it’s disappeared from the Rocket St George website. It reminds me of a 1.5m…