Looking beyond the darkness

In what looks set to be an interesting take on the history of the scene, a new book from Black Dog explores the powerful visual side to one of music’s most notorious and maligned genres: black metal

How Black Pencils are won

D&AD’s Black Pencil. Not easy to get one. But here’s a teaser for a forthcoming behind the scenes film which will apparently shed light on what happens in the judging room

Louis Vuitton pays tribute to Muhammad Ali

Louis Vuitton has released the latest in its Louis Vuitton Journeys campaign, which sees hip-hop artist Yasiin Bey and calligraphist Niels Shoe Meulman pay tribute to the great Muhammad Ali…

Hackney Wick’s The Walls Have Ears mural

Collaborating with the local community, Bread, a creative collective based in East London, has just completed a 100 metre long typographic mural along a street that leads to London’s Olympic Park…

Eraserhead soundtrack

Bleak and unsettling, David Lynch’s film Eraserhead certainly has a soundtrack to match. New York’s Sacred Bones is behind the design and release of a new deluxe edition of the recording, which remains something of an industrial classic

Errol Morris documents superfans for ESPN

Wieden + Kennedy New York and director Errol Morris have shot this unusual and engaging documentary for ESPN, which features stories of superfans who take their love of sports all the way to the grave with them…

New Orange spot features stars of The Sweeney

The latest Orange cinema spot from Fallon features Ray Winstone and Ben Drew, stars of the forthcoming movie remake of 70s cop drama The Sweeney, who find out just what happens if you let a mobile phone company get involved in a movie…

DFS in good ad shock

Furniture brand DFS has a long-established track record for making shouty ads featuring perky families bouncing on its products, so this 90-second spot for the company comes as something of a surprise. Shot by Outsider’s Owen Harris, it tells the story of an arduous but ordinary day in the life of a small boy…

It’s the Art of Failure Analysis photo comp

Fresh from Singapore’s International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits comes a fascinating selection of images which were entered into, yes, the conference’s annual photography competition

Daniel Meadows and Britain in 1970s

Daniel Meadows’ photographs from 1970s Britain reveal a nation both at home and in all its summertime holiday-making finery. A new show of his work from the period has just opened at the Ffotogallery in Penarth in Wales

London 2012 Olympics: The look

From airport to venue, visitors to London 2012 will find one consistent look for the Games. LOCOG’s marketing director tells Patrick Burgoyne how it was achieved

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