What will the world look like once the icecaps melt and water floods our cities? This art project aims to show Londoners their future aquatic city.READ»
It’s not just a place to throw your rubbish. New trash cans being installed for the London Olympics can’t be blown up, separate recycling, and also display helpful tourist info. That’s service.READ»
The U.K.'s capital is ambitious in its commitment to reduce emissions and improve its environment. A look at a city involved in its own climate change.READ»
In London, an experimental new substance is being sprayed on the streets to keep the particulate matter from factories and cars from going into our lungs. It won't stop climate change but, if it works, it could at least clean up our ...READ»
PaveGen, a British company that makes sidewalk tiles that create small amounts of electricity, is ramping up to take advantage of the foot traffic during the Olympics. Will pedestrian power pay off?READ»
The LinkedIn cofounder takes 30 Silicon Valley executives and investors to Britain to give innovations lessons to Europe's future entrepreneurs. One improvised lesson: when a bomb threat disrupts your creative session, head to the pub to network. READ»
Entering an Ikea store feels like crossing the border of a meticulously decorated, vaguely Scandinavian country. But what if the principles of an Ikea store were actually used to build a real-life development?READ»
First you had to pay to drive into the city center. Now some cars won't be able to drive there at all. It's all in an effort to clean up the city's air--and the health of its citizens.READ»
What if your bike ride to work meant you got free stuff at stores? Recyclebank is going beyond just offering rewards for recycling, giving London commuters fresh incentives to walk or ride.READ»
Rioters in North London have been using BBMs to rally, presuming RIM's phone-to-phone, encrypted messages won't land in the hands of authorities. But in an increasingly familiar move, RIM has now pledged to work with those authorities.READ»
As a student in the textiles program at the Royal College of Art in London, Jungeun Lee wanted to find nothing less than a new way to make a garment. But after researching different yarns and methods and coming up empty, she just ...READ»
To stop honeybees--some of the planet's most important food pollinators--from continuing to disappear at an alarming rate, London has launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to raise awareness about the problem. READ»
It’s every design groupie’s fantasy: to wake up with Wim Crouwel, the Dutch graphic-design demigod renown for making boring old grids look downright sublime. Now -- of course -- there’s an app for that.
The Design Museum ...READ»
Wim Wenders has created some of the moodiest, most visually arresting landscapes in film history -- a tone Pauline Kael described perfectly, referring to Wings of Desire, as “dim whimsy” and “spooky spirituality.” Leave it to ...READ»
