Topic: London (England)

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UK politicians missing the digital strategy opportunity

The Internet has completely changed the world of media and communications. In the past decade we have seen a revolution in the way businesses and organisations operate, resulting from technological and social advances possible using ...READ»

7 Compact Hotels Big on Style

Hotels around the world are enticing guests by pairing high design with low prices, trimming costs by shrinking square footage and inclusive frills like room service and toiletries. Here are seven examples: Pod Hotel, ...READ»

Coming to a City Near You

New York City submitted its bid yesterday for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the finals with Paris, Moscow, London, and Madrid. My question to you today, dear readers, is a two-parter: For those of you from Los Angeles, ...READ»

London 2012 Olympics Map Points to the Future of Cartography

One challenge faced by any city ramping up its local services in advance of hosting the Olympics: You can't put any old company's logo out there for the world to see unless they've inked a hefty sponsorship deal and/or been ...READ»

Branding the Olympics: How Will 2016 Look?

An examination of how Olympic logos evolved during the period between a city's initial bid for the Summer or Winter games and the final version the public got to see.READ»

First Look: Heathrow's $1.6 Billion Terminal 2 Will Be Brighter, Greener, Less Ugly

London's Heathrow is the world's third-busiest airport, a hub for some 67 million passengers every year. (Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson and Chicago's O'Hare are tops, with 90 million and 69 million, respectively.) To help ease ...READ»

Greenjets: A Carpooling Service for Private Planes

If swine flu hysteria has made you wary of flying on commercial airliners but you can't afford a private plane, maybe its time to consider private jet carpooling. A company called Greenjets has launched just such a service, ...READ»

A First-Class Production

Business class is the new first, as startup airlines and old stalwarts try to woo you with fresh seats and services. READ»

High-Design Public Bus? Maybe in London

London's double-decker gets an Aston Martin makeover.READ»

The Forgotten Woman

I watched this morning's too-close-to-call International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote with friends in London and while these normally self-deprecating Londoners are elated to bag the $3bn prize of hosting the 2012 games, there's also ...READ»

Global City of the Year: London

Where one of every eight works in a creative industry.READ»

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Does Architecture Have a Foot Fetish?

You don't have to try very hard to spot the architecture students on a college campus. They're the ones with the carefully considered shoes (and artful eyewear). It's easy to see why architects are so selective about their footwear: ...READ»

How to Stream Your Music From Mac to Anywhere

Apple's new Mac Mini now ships with server software, but Apple's suggested uses are vanilla. With 1TB of storage and plenty of power, let's put it to good use and stream some music and movies over the Intertubes. Snow Leopard ...READ»

London Lalling

My ride to work on the Tube yesterday was different. Commuters on London's Underground don't normally make eye contact, let alone speak to one another, but yesterday morning they were smiling and chatting as the front pages of their ...READ»

Low Cost And Long Haul: Can It Work?

Last November Hong Kong-based Oasis Airlines started offering flights from Hong Kong to London's Gatwick airport at ridiculously low prices. Hong Kong being a former British colony means that there is enough traffic between the two ...READ»

The Ad Agency to End All Ad Agencies

St. Lukes, a rebellious young agency spun out of the once-revolutionary Chiat/Day, practices what it preaches -- the gospel of total ethics and common ownership.READ»

Best of Show: The London Design Festival

For design, fall is the season of ideas.The Milan Furniture Fair, held every April, is essentially an organ of the Italian furniture industry. Walking the fairgrounds on the city outskirts, one gets the sense that a thousand suits are ...READ»

Travel Guide Books Get a Redesign

Three new travel series reimagine what a guidebook can be by putting design at the forefront. READ»

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which is likely to be around for some time.

It’s not an artifact I would decide. I don’t feel it the Marmite prompt.Ugg opened its first British standalone save, in the Westfield centre, London, last autumn. People queued to get in, and current records show that Ugg sales ...READ»

Why We'll Take Longer Baths in the Future

Prediction is a dangerous game -- the future is never a straight linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans -- but it's better than not thinking about the future at all. Futurist Richard Watson explores the future and innovation in this, the first chapter of his latest book Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years.READ»

God Bless the IOC

I breathed a huge sigh of relief as London was announced as the host city for the 2012 Olympics. My interest in having the Olympics stay away from New York is about more than my not wanting even more tourists clogging up the subway. ...READ»

Heart, Meet Sleeve

There is a great article about advertising in soccer jerseys in the August 2005 issue of FourFourTwo magazine. There is hardly a soccer club, at any level, that wouldn't sport its sponsor's logo on the chest of the jersey. And no ...READ»

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