If you're not quite sure what to read first in CR's December issue, the cover features a handy guide to the contents, courtesy of the design department at New York magazine

The cover asks you what you want to read about and offers various (not altogether serious) routes to finding the stories that are right for you

Those stories include our Hi-Res feature on the Non Sign II installation on the US-Canada border

A look at Droga5's Decode project for Jay-Z

Our major Profile piece this month is on Mike Meiré, art director of 032c magazine and one-time flatmate of Peter Saville

Then we have pieces on the two new Pentagram partners, Naresh Ramchandani and Eddie Opara

While Andy Cameron looks at how interactive art is repositioning itself closer to architecture and product design

In Crit, David Crowley examines the contribution of the Design Research Unit in the wake of a recent exhibition

We have pieces on Crowdsourcing, the infographics of New York, advertising's rediscovered love of illustration, Michael Johnson on the Brand New conference and even fireworks

And Monograph this month features a selection of infographics produced by the New York magazine design department over the past year