Lance Wyman

Lance Wyman's work archive on Graphic Ambient:
Mexico Olympics
Mexico City Metro
National Zoo Washington
Minnesota Zoo

+ designboom interview

The Wrinkles of the City - La Havana

The Wrinkles of the City – one of a few photographic mural projects by a French photographer JR (in collaboration with an American artist José Parlá), in Havana.

traffic lights with progress bars

"The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and promote safer driving. There might already be quite some traffic light time counters around today, but few focus on informing the car drivers in a physically integrative and visually glanceable way like this proposed design concept.

Eko Light is specifically designed so it can be easily installed onto existing traffic light systems without much effort. It claims to bring forward following benefits:
- Less pollution, as drivers can turn their engines off and cut carbon emissions while waiting for the green light,
- Less fuel consumption, as turning off vehicle engines lowers fuel consumption in the long run,
- Less stress, since drivers know exactly how long to wait, and
- Safer driving, as all traffic participants are fully aware of how much time they have left before the light changes, reducing the chance for potential traffic accidents."

via infosthetic.com

September: London

Open house London (19&20 Sep)
Police Auctions 73 Sceptre Road, London, E2 0JU (3, 17 sep; 1, 15 oct) 11pm start, 12 pm vehicle sale
Bumblebee auctions
Halfords - bike shop
Musical Museum: concerts

more London cycling

SE1 community website

Cycle show, Earl's court (8-11 oct)
Serpentine sport training sessions
Cycle safe London
Bike-for-All
Go Skyride (Putney heath to Bushey park circular/2.5 hrs/The Telegraph Inn, Telegraph Rd, Putney Heath/7pm Wednesday 26th August)
Bike Radar
Bikes on public transport
EVANS cycle voucher
Bike to work sampler book
London cycle network
The cycling experts
Bikeability
Mayor of London Skyride (20 Sep)
4 parks Skyride (13 Sep)
Richmond park ride (6 Sept)

Watermans gallery

exhibition&events space in London
(40 High Street, Brentford TW8 0DS, near Kew gardens)

London maps

Urban mapz: all-London maps of areas and shopping centres
Transport direct – transport maps & routes
my London map

London stuff for Aug-Sep

Cycle Fridays
Portobello film festival/3-20 Sep
London Jazz festival/13-22 Nov
BBC Proms
Feast on Southwark bridge/ 13 Sep 12-22 pm
Sushi for free (£2.50 for service) at Tokyo sushi/Bank, 46 gresham st
Regents canal tasting trail/23 Aug 12-4 pm
Thames festival/12-13 Sept
The icecreamists/Selfridges/ 10 sep – 1 oct
Organic fortnight/5-20 sep

London design festival-2009

Range of events for Aug-Sept as part of Design festival

city of Melbourne: new ID

New identity for Melbourne: "The identity design was developed by the Sydney office of Landor and the City of Melbourne paid $A91,000 (US$74,000) in “preliminary research for the new brand” and $A148,000 (US$120,000) for the design itself according to Doyle. " (BrandNew)

3D weather

interactive 3D weather forecast – alternative approach by Kurt Riedi

HERE&THERE

horizonless NY map by Schulze & Webb creative design consultancy (London)

eine, uk street artist

some curious street art

murmur madrid

'madrid city murmur' - interactive data mapping

typo-pastiche

Pastiche—A Collective Composition of New York City, by Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo.
typographic New York:
"The city is a composite of impressions. Beyond the built environment, it is a constantly changing pastiche of associations and experiences—not just of the people who inhabit it, but of the larger community. New York City, in particular, has two realities: the reality of the physical environment, and the reality of the idea—of what the city and its diverse neighborhoods signify. Inseparably intertwined, these two realities constantly continue to inform each other. Pastiche is a dynamic data visualization that maps keywords from blog articles to the New York neighborhoods they are written in reference to, geographically positioned in a navigable, spatial view. Keywords are assigned based on relevance and recency, surrounding their corresponding neighborhoods. The result is a dynamically changing description of the city, formed around individual experiences and perspectives".

London from above

Big picture: stunning pictures of London from Jason Hawkes

that's not funny

some challenge
other comics on Married to the sea

michael wolf photography

stunning cityscapes and weird objects by Michael Wolf

tishkov & bendikov: moon-star photography

set of christmas-inspired photographs

living patterns

urban morphology post, also: toronto spacing
and bricoleurbanism