Tube map close-up products

An entry on Annie Mole’s Going Underground blog informed me that the London Transport Museum are now selling products where you can personalise them to show any part of the tube map you like:

Men’s T-Shirt

Women’s T-Shirt

Mug

Mouse Mat

Go to the ‘RailOrder’ section of the museum site to order yours.
Map geekery: the version of the map they [...]

Bringing the Thames back to the London tube map

This week Transport for London have released a big revision to the tube map. They are trying to make it clearer. It is a great deal simpler than the previous version, but they may have gone too far. The River Thames has gone:

I think that the Thames is one of the cues that gives some [...]

Cheers from London

An old idea from 2000. I don’t think Transport for London would give their approval, but maybe Absolut don’t need it.

Which Final Cut with which QuickTime with which Mac OS X

Following on from Larry Jordan’s intense, cool and informative Final Cut PowerUp tutorial event in London, the question came up: which version of Final Cut works best with which versions of QuickTime and OS X?
Larry gave the most important advice: If your system is working fine do not upgrade until you need a specific new [...]

Broadcast Video Expo: BBC on Final Cut Studio

In which I transcribe some notes on how the BBC uses Apple’s Final Cut Studio suite to make TV programmes.
I thought it would only take a day, but tomorrow I’m going back for more!
Trade shows bring out the worst in me. In recent years I’ve learned to do without them. However this time I have [...]

A quiet Christmas in London

Oxford Street, London

Making £108,000 using secrets

Each year London’s Royal College of Art uses a secret sale to raise money and make a point about fame and the business of art.
From today for a week, Londoners are invited to visit their gallery for the opportunity to view 2,700 pieces of art drawn on postcards. At the end of the week [...]

London station

Do you need to complete your UK short?

After weeks of fund-raising producers do well to get all the money together to make their short films. There are so many little expenses that mount up. No day arrives without an invoice from some unexpected place. Suddenly the shoot starts, and everyone works for 24 hours a day until all the footage is in [...]

London’s logo: 100 interpretations

To mark the 100th anniversary of London Transport’s roundel, Art on the Underground have commissioned 100 contemporary artists to come up with a piece incorporating London’s logo.

They are on display in London, and available on an eBay auction. Bid here for more.
What would you do with the logo?

If you want to have a go putting [...]