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	London Olympics Map--super cool!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffff33;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5b99d4e5-395c-472d-8cc1-42e5fe0b4457/D9515FF0-F863-415E-9053-27B3AEDE9679/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/stamen-designs-custom-map-london-olympics" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/stamen-designs-custom-map-london-olympics" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fastcompany.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/stamen-designs-custom-map-london-olympics"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fastcompany.com/img/63C3499A-849C-438C-8E04-FD5B259087B5" alt="london-map" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/stamen-designs-custom-map-london-olympics"><P>One challenge faced by any city ramping up its local services in advance of hosting the Olympics: You can't put any old company's logo out there for the world to see unless they've inked a hefty sponsorship deal and/or been named as an official contractor. That means even the lettering on the side of the construction vehicles building your new stadium will get painted out in press photos. Online, where almost everything is branded, from YouTube to Flickr, this gets tricky, especially when it comes to mapping--yep, you guessed it--no using Google Maps. So <A href="http://www.london2012.com/in-your-area/map/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LOCOG</A> (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) tapped SF-based collective <A href="http://www.stamen.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Stamen Design</A> to build a <A href="http://www.london2012.com/in-your-area/map/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">custom map</A> for the <A href="http://london2012.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">London 2012 website</A>, a beautiful and radical departure from off-the-shelf mapping programs that makes full use of that <A href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/design-haters-recent-redesign-revolts-and-three-more-way" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pupil-rattling logo</A>. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D9515FF0-F863-415E-9053-27B3AEDE9679/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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