Still In The Sky Video

We’ve all done it – snapped a shot out of the window of a plane while flying. Well Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo creative Shingo Ohno has gone a few steps further than that, creating a music video for his one-man band Merce Death using footage shot on his iPhone 4S while in flight…

FF Chartwell: a graph-making font

FF Chartwell by Travis Kochel is an ingenious typeface which makes use of OpenType ligatures to create graphs within a text box…

Billy’s new, happy darkness

For his Now Here’s My Plan EP, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has revisited his own back catalogue in a series of self-covers. The bleak I See A Darkness has been pepped up to the point of creepiness, an effect only increased by a rather strange video

A pack of ace illustrators

52Aces is a pack of playing cards, each one sporting a design by a different illustrator. The really great thing about it is that mostly it avoids the ‘usual suspects’ and has introduced us to some image makers we weren’t hereto familiar with…

Steve Simpson’s illustrated chilli sauce bottles

We’re big fans of illustrator Steve Simpson’s branding and packaging work for Irish chilli sauce company, Mic’s Chilli. He’s just delivered two new bottle designs for the brand’s latest additions to its range of fiery condiments…

The art of danger and suspense

Ben Woodeson’s art makes people uneasy, anxious even. But as his precariously balanced glass pieces demonstrate, the fear of what might happen next is at the very centre of his work

CR Annual: Digital and Interactive Picks

Our third judging panel for this year’s CR Annual looked at the digital and interactive work that was submitted. Here’s how the panel reached their decisions…

APFEL embrace Bauhaus for Barbican show

A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) has worked with architectural studio Carmody Groarke on the exhibition design for Bauhaus: Art as Life which opened at the Barbican Art Gallery this week in London…

Kapow! Take that, linear narratives!

Visual Editions has just released its fourth book, Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell. Dealing with the events of the Arab Spring, the novel plays with the notion of ‘digression’ and, as the book progresses, these textual asides make up more and more of the story. Designer Frith Kerr was asked to thread it all together

Boat’s A-Z of London Street Food

Included as an insert in Boat magazine’s latest issue devoted to all things London, we came across this A-Z of London Street Food leaflet, designed by Kate Hyde…