Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

London’s Double Decker Revamped

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has updated the look of London’s trademark busses – which date back half a century – to give them a modern edge.
‘It has been 50 years since a bus was last designed and commissioned specifically for London,’ Heatherwick says. ‘It has been an honour […] to take an integrated approach and design everything that you see and experience from the outside down to the tiniest details of the interior.’

The new busses are eco-friendly; when compared with a current diesel bus, Heatherwick’s design emits less than half of both carbon dioxide and oxides of nitrogen levels.
Prototypes are currently in use around London, with seven more busses scheduled to enter service on 20 February. Keen to ride? The busses are being used to serve route 38 between Victoria and Hackney.

Photos courtesy Iwan Baan.
Text by Lydia Parafianowicz.
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

‘Plant for the Planet’ Ad Campaign

A wonderfully executed ad campaign by Legas Delaney Hamburg for Plant for the Planet, using cut leaves symbolizing their ability to absorb CO2. Beautiful work. …

Monday, January 30th, 2012

MORE4′s New Identity

Channel 4′s “intelligent” sister-channel, More4, has undergone a stylish metamorphosis at the hands of London-based design and motion graphics studio, ManvsMachine. With an effervescent colour palette reflecting the vibrancy of the re-focussed content – interiors, culture and fashion are forming the nucleus of the channel’s content – the stand-out constituent of the re-branding, for us, are the charming live-action idents that centre around physical renders of the animated logo. Meticulously (check out the making of video if you don’t believe us) constructed with mechanical ‘flippers’ – with able assistance from installation specialists Jason Bruges Studio – the flickering devices bring alive vague, endearing locations with an almost magical quality…

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MvsM / More4 Idents from ManvsMachine on Vimeo.…