Category Archives: London

Bikeshed London – Find Your Stolen Bike

By Chungaiz | Published: July 9, 2010
Ever had your bike stolen in London? There’s about 4 places that it could turn up: Brick Lane, London Fields, eBay or Gumtree. A friend had his bike stolen and spent days scouring ebay and gumtree to try and find it. As a web developer, he decided there was a better way to do this [...]
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Write The Future on the Largest Poster Site in the UK

By Chungaiz | Published: June 4, 2010
The latest phase of our Write The Future campaign for Nike has gone live, as we took over the largest poster site in the UK. Mimicking that famous landmark Mount Rushmore, the faces of four England stars Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Theo Walcott and James Milner take the place of the traditional four presidents of [...]
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Nike Grid

By Chungaiz | Published: April 20, 2010
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Nike Grid London is your gameboard. You have 24 hours to claim your streets. 40 postcodes across London. North. South. East. West. Grid phone boxes in each postcode. Run between them. Score points. Run more. Score more. Badges awarded for speed, endurance and [...]
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Pirate Radio in London

By Chungaiz | Published: April 6, 2010
Courtesy of Palladium: Pirate radio is everywhere in London, born in the 60’s from rusting anti-aircraft towers in the mouth of the Thames. Today’s broadcasts are hidden in plain sight, transmitting from secret tower block studios via homemade rooftop antennas. We put our boots on and went exploring. Interesting, for you marketer peoples, is to [...]
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alan kitching – eye magazine

By Andy | Published: December 29, 2009
a few videos from the eye magazine channel on vineo part one: part two: part three:
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Making of Fantastic Mr Fox

By Andy | Published: November 27, 2009
A lovely new book designed by Angus Hyland. More over at the Pentagram blog.
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ride journal

By Andy | Published: November 26, 2009
the ride journal is one of those mags / journals i don’t need to flick through, i pick it up and take it straight to the till; no flicking needed, you know you’re guaranteed a good read. it sounds horribly cliched but you can read the book by its cover, the care and attention to [...]
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L2P

By Andy | Published: November 25, 2009
i did this ride a year or so ago with a crew of 6 others on track bikes in 24 hours – brighton – newhaven – dieppe – paris. no gears, no brakes. we raised some money for unicef along the way. it was pretty tough!! some pics from Kai here Nike sponsored a few [...]
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Fixed: global fixed-gear bike culture

By Andy | Published: October 28, 2009
FIXED is the first book to document global fixed-gear culture. It joins the dots between the bike’s design, its racing heritage and the customization that marks its appearance on our city streets. It meets the track stars, tricksters, messengers, hill bombers and polo players the world over, linking them to the artists, designers and framebuilders [...]
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morvelo

By Andy | Published: October 28, 2009
there are quite a lot of companies springing up to cater for the new cool side of cycling, but these guys have been around for years (no diss). they race track, road, cx, mtb, even hill-climbs and they’re doing some really cool tees and some very desirable cycling kit too. is lycra getting cool now!? [...]
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