Mo Farah & Usain Bolt swap celebrations at London 2012
London 2012 Olympic Games heroes, the double gold winning British athlete Mo Farah and Jamaican triple gold medal winning sprinter Usain Bolt swap their winning celebrations on the podium. Following the last night on the track at London 2012, the two track stars of the games took to the podium to show their appreciation for … Read more
World’s largest Union Jack flag made from unwanted clothes
Marks & Spencer, local volunteers & Oxfam create world’s largest Union Jack flag from unwanted clothes. The giant piece of clothing art at West Ham Park in East London was completed within the time it took to win the 10km Open Water Swim. The stunt was produced as part of the retailer’s Shwopping campaign that … Read more
Banksy Olympic Street Art
Banksy is back with two new pieces of street art ahead of this year’s London 2012 Olympic Games. The new graffiti works see a javelin thrower with a missile and a pole vaulter hurdling barbed wire.
Coca-Cola Beatbox by Pernilla & Asif
The Coca-Cola Beatbox designed by super cool London-based architectural duo Pernilla & Asif for the London 2012 Olympic Games is now completed and ready for the opening ceremony on Friday. The specially commissioned Olympic Park Pavilion is designed to celebrate the best of British youth. Pernilla Ohrstedt and Asif Khan created the Coca-Cola Beatbox was … Read more
McDonald’s Olympic pop-up sustainable restaurant
McDonald’s… sustainable? Who would have thought it, but now the fast food giant is showing its hand in a new drive to be more environmentally friendly. The McDonald’s pop-up, built for London 2012 Olympic Games in Stratford will be world’s busiest, but will only last for six weeks. The restaurant at the Olympic Park will … Read more
Rachel Whiteread for Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick OBE today unveiled the major new commission by British artist Rachel Whiteread for the building’s historic façade with the artist and an introduction by Danny Boyle, filmmaker and London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Artistic Director. The work is Whiteread’s first ever permanent public commission in the UK and features … Read more
David Beckham Plays Beethoven with Footballs
London Olympics adverts are coming quick and fast, now Samsung, one of the games official sponsors has teamed up with David Beckham for their Galaxy Note smartphone. Beckham plays Beethoven’s classic ‘Ode To Joy’, so often used by commercials and broadcasters ahead of Olympic coverage, by kicking footballs against a 15-foot wall of differently sized … Read more
London 2012 £5 Coins Launched
Two British students have had the honour of designing the official UK coins to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The two designs – one for the Olympic Games and one for the Paralympic Games – will soon be in the hands of Games enthusiasts around the world, ahead of next summer’s Games. … Read more
London 2012 Olympic Posters Revealed
Today at the Tate Britain, London 2012′s Cultural Olympiad team unveiled a series of posters to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The images seem to nod their hat in a big way to the Munich games of 1972, where the organisers of the Munich Olympics ran a very similar enterprise with the … Read more
Ascent by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby
After you have just been commissioned to design the London 2012 Olympic Torch, there isn’t much more to do, might as well retire and just live happy in the memory Daley Thompson and Kriss Akabusi has touched your work. Maybe that is just me, but the acclaimed, innovative London-based designers Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby … Read more
Cool Runnings in Hackney? Yah Man!
Rocky, Cool Runnings, Breaking Away and Chariots of Fire are amongst some of the sporting blockbusters set to be screened on recycled fridges in East London as part of Films on Fridges, launching tomorrow. Films on Fridges has resurrected Hackney’s Fridge Mountain, once Europe’s largest mound of discarded refrigerators, into a pop-up cinema for three … Read more
