I-spy, join the dots, spot the difference and things to do and make: our August issue will help you while away the summer days. Plus we've got Will Self on advertising, Stefan G Bucher and more

Flipboard is a new iPad app that is being billed as a "personalised social magazine". So far, most iPad apps have been relatively underwhelming (we're looking at you, Wired) but Flipboard looks to have real potential.

London-based DJ and graphic designer Alex Newman (aka DJ Al Fingers) was approached by clothing label Stüssy to produce a mix CD back in 2008. Two years later he has delivered not just the commissioned mix CD but a book which showcases the first 100 record sleeves released by UK reggae and dancehall record label Greensleeves, plus a range of limited T-shirts that display elements of some of the record sleeves included in the book...

The career of the late, great Barney Bubbles is to be celebrated in an exhibition running as part of the London Design Festival in September

Handlettering artist Alison Carmichael has applied her considerable skills to a new medium in an ad for charity The White Ribbon Alliance

It's always interesting to read of the gifts exchanged by world leaders at their official meetings. Famously, when Barack Obama met Gordon Brown in 2009, he presented him with a set of classic movie DVDs, in response to Brown's more thoughtful gift of an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet. After the media stir Obama's perceived snub to Brown received, David Cameron must have thought long and hard before deciding on his gift for his meeting with Obama this week. So what did he end up getting? A piece of grafitti art, naturally.

For those of you lucky enough to live Stateside, the fourth season of Mad Men is starting this Sunday. As a promotion for the show, AMC has created this online job interview that reveals where you'd fit in at the newly formed agency, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce...

Following the success of its Secret Blisters exhibition last year and the Blisters On My Fingers show of the previous year, London-based screenprinting club, Print Club London is soon to host another show of prints. Read on to find out how to be one of the 40 exhibiting artists...

Currently showing in the windows at Selfridges in London is a set of sculptures by Kyle Bean, based on the scientific law of conservation of energy...

St Luke's is a United Reform Church in Cambridge which now sports a rather beautiful glazed screen courtesy of Ely-based graphic design studio Maddison Graphic