June-July London events

BIG Dance (3-11 Jul, some events before these dates)
Greenwich festival (24 June – 4 July)
Sadler's Wells: Bounce's Insane in the Brain (until 27 June)
Hayward gallery: Ernesto Neto (from 19 June)

LIFT 2010

London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT):
ICA – 16-18 June (hosting original productions from Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll and FML, as well as presenting a festival essential: LIFT Club)
also at NT etc.
23 June – 31 July

London hiking groups

Meetups
CLOG
Inner London Ramblers
The London Adventure Group
Backabush explorers
Minty trips
Saturday walker's club
North London Rambling Club

The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway

AIGA article about the relationship between Helvetica and Subway. Very long and informative.

AfroCup festival

RichMix: 'A festival celebration of African music, arts, culture independence and World Cup football.

Fri 11 June - Sun 11 July / All events FREE

25 days & nights of live music, DJs, film, art, food and football / All World Cup matches broadcast on our giant 15 x 10ft screen'

100 movies to see before you die

list of world's 100 must-see movies, for reference

Patrick Jean

+more stuff from Patrick Jean

Bizarre ER

Great multimedia design (titles, animation, commercials, branding, etc.) from BDH, including weird Bizarre ER series

siggi eggertsson type + illustration

some great typography from iceland-born illustrator siggi eggertsson

flickr desserts

nice flickr page with unhealthily sweet stuff
+ author's blog
+ another flickr page with LOADS of good-looking food