A Lego forest blooms in the Australian outback

To celebrate 50 years of the Lego brick in Australia, the toy brand has launched the Lego Festival of Play, and has been ‘planting’ lifesize Lego forests across Australia. The latest sprang up earlier this week in the remote outback town of Broken Hill….

Music’s identity for Britain Creates 2012

Design studio Music has designed the identity, graphics and printed collateral for Britain Creates 2012 – a programme of collaborations between fashion designers and visual artists which forms part of the London 2012 Festival.

Saying more with less

How can you say the most with the least? It’s a perpetual challenge for everyone in visual communications and one explored in a new show based on a workshop by Mesa & Cadeira and Anthony Burrill

Lauren Luke film for Refuge

Make-up artist and YouTube star Lauren Luke has shot a film for domestic violence charity Refuge, which sees Luke talk her viewers through how to cover up bruises and cuts…

Rose goes POP!

Briefed to capture the spirit of the swinging Sixties, Rose Design has created the branding, marketing materials and exhibition graphics for the POP! Design Culture Fashion show which opens this Friday at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum…

Design Museum takeover

While the Design Museum in London installs its forthcoming Designed to Win show, the ground floor of the building will host a series of free events between July 12 – 23, hosted by graphic design studios, illustrators and publishers

Talent-spotters: De Montfort

Our guest talent-spotter, Paul Ross, visited Leicester’s De Montfort degree show, which included some great pieces of illustration work, as well as an interesting use of sculpture…

OK-RM’s grid-based system for Strelka

Design studio OK-RM have recently completed the branding for the Strelka Institute, a major cultural organisation in Moscow. We talked to OK-RM’s Rory McGrath about the project

Fit: Olympics-inspired posters by designers

When the 2012 Olympics artists posters were released last year, a collective howl of protest arose from the graphic design community: why weren’t we given the chance to do these? Well now they have been

Electricity Comes From Other Planets

Ex-Airside directors Fred Deakin and Nat Hunter have collaborated with Marek Bereza and James Bulley to create an interactive audio-visual installation for the Joue Le Jeu (Play Along) exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris…

Kingston’s mobile degree show in a van

Working on the principle that if you can’t get the punters to your event, you could always bring the event to them, Kingston graphic design graduates are touring London this week in a van featuring work from their degree show