Crash Karmin’s New Music Video

Party in Japan has come up with yet another great interactive idea for a music video, this time for the Japanese release of US pop duo Karmin’s track Crash Your Party, where audiences will be able to help make the video live on TV…

Animal Planet creates small worlds

Discovery Network’s Animal Planet channel has launched an on-air refresh featuring a series of charming 3D worlds inhabited by various endearing animals

When Goliath met David

In Tom Gauld’s new story, the Biblical tale of David and Goliath is retold from the giant’s point of view, making for the comic book artist’s most accomplished and moving work to date

Design Indaba 2012: Day 2

Design Indaba’s day two highlights were served up by Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis of Hellicar & Lewis, South African product designer and “creative doer” Porky Hefer, Indian screenwriter Akshat Verma, and United Visual Artists…

Guerrilla Gaming

MPU Sydney, Publicis Mojo and Finch have collaborated to create a giant version of the classic mobile game Snake, which can be projected onto walls across cities, allowing gamers to play anywhere in the urban environment…

A liquid crystal display

Prismatica is a new project by Kit Webster in which a series of pyramid-shaped crystals are fixed to an LCD screen and ‘mapped’ with a geometric animation

Design Indaba 2012: Day 1

Cape Town’s ever-inspiring Design Indaba conference kicked off yesterday with talks by speakers including Pentagram partner Eddie Opara, Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin and also René Redzepi, the head chef of Copenhagen’s Noma restaurant…

Guardian ad re-tells story of Three Little Pigs

If the story of the Three Little Pigs broke today, how would a modern newspaper cover it? That’s the concept behind a new TV ad for The Guardian, the newspaper’s first major TV spot for 25 years

How to make great ads

Is there a formula for making a great ad? When researching a new book, How 30 Great Ads Were Made: From Idea to Campaign, Eliza Williams spoke to creatives, directors, and clients about what it takes to make a successful piece of advertising. From this expert knowledge, she has compiled the following top ten tips for how to make brilliant ads

Words & pictures

Pairing a writer with an illustrator can be a complex, even dangerous, business. So what makes for the most successful relationship?

Select group

The Pick Me Up graphic art fair returns to London’s Somerset House this month, showcasing the work of individual illustrators, graphic designers and collectives from around the world. As in previous years, Pick Me Up Selects will feature 20 up-and-coming illustrators as part of a programme that also includes workshops and residencies — we have chosen four of those emerging illustrators to profile on these pages