London Taxi iPhone App

New iPhone app takes traffic into account when calculating London taxi fares

Launched this week, the London Taxi iPhone app calculates in a few seconds the fare from one point to another in one of the city’s signature Black Cabs—taking into account both the time of day and projected traffic conditions. Created by two recently laid-off Transport for London planners, the young entrepreneurs took their knowledge of London’s transport system and applied it to a much-needed technology …

Katherine Morling’s Sculptural Ceramics

Katharine Morling reinvents ceramics with a touch of the surreal

Working out of one of South London’s hidden creative hubs, the mystical New Cross and Deptford, Katharine Morling creates whimsical and often outlandish sculpture from porcelain and ceramics. A world away from the often stuffy stigma of the form, her work attracts a solid base of admirers on the strength of her imagination alone. Lately the designer has moved her collection on a notch, following …

Hvass&Hannibal: Losing the Plot

Taking data visualizing to a conceptual level, Danish design studio Hvass&Hannibal's upcoming exhibition "Losing the Plot" at London's Kemistry Gallery engagingly reinterprets info into artworks. (Click on all images for expanded view) The Copenhagen-based duo created silkscreen prints, wooden sculptures and offset posters, beautifully and tangibly expressing data sets such as the probability theory or the registration of natural phenomena. Adding their own sensitivity to …