A journey around Andrew Rae’s pencil case

Peepshow image makers Andrew Rae and Chrissie Macdonald have collaborated to create a mixed media installation designed to engage children as they travel from ward to operating theatre at a London hospital…

A welcome new design event

An array of top speakers, a great venue, cheap tickets and proceeds going to a good cause – the Cheltenham Design Festival is a very welcome addition to the design conference scene

Measuring The Universe

Illustrator Richard Hogg worked with graphic designer Anna Fidalgo on the exhibition design for the current Measuring The Universe exhibition running at Royal Observatory Greenwich until September 2…

Olympic Torch wins Design of the Year

Barber Osberby’s London 2012 Olympic Torch has won the Design Museum’s Design of the Year prize for 2012. The Nokia Pure typeface by Dalton Maag won the Graphic Award while the Digital Award went to the Microsoft Kinect

Poke’s Tweet-powered teeth

Created by Poke for Orange, a new online game gives players a chance to win a new phone and other prizes by tweeting or posting on Facebook to move a set of chattering teeth around a specially built, fully webcammed game board…

Foldvari’s vision of Dickensian London

The Museum of London has worked with agency Brothers and Sisters and illustrator David Foldvari to create Dickens’ Dark London, an iPhone and iPad app that takes the user on an illustrated journey into deepest darkest Dickensian London…

My Feelings Like You

Gary Taxali’s work champions the “accidentally beautiful” and uses a host of influences from the past to create some of the most vibrant cartooning around. His show, My Feelings Like You, opens at The Outsiders in London next week

Isn’t there a better way to buy design?

Growing numbers of designers are refusing to pitch for work. Not just unpaid pitches, any pitch at all. Pitching, they say, is bad for designers, bad for clients and produces bad work. They have a point

Hide your embarrassing literature

Illustrator Isabel Greenberg’s series of concertina Fold Out-Fold Up products are designed to cover kitchen- or bookshelf shame

New to the iPad

Since launching our iPad edition earlier this month, we’ve added plenty of new CR iPad-only content, including a feature on photographer Roger Ballen, a new short film soundtracked by Radium Audio, a closer look at the work of Pick Me Up illustrators Kristjana Williams, and Michael Kirkham, and an intricate animation, inspired by a 16th century Dutch painting…

Savoury spread fit for The Queen

Fans of the nation’s most divisive savoury spread will be able to “toast” the Queen’s 60th year at the helm by buying a special edition jar of the brown stuff…

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