A ghost in his machine

Emilio Gomariz exploits the Mac OS X desktop to create beautiful ‘performances’ from the various commands and functions which form everyday user experience

CR March issue: illustration special

The March issue of Creative Review is an illustration special with pieces on the relationship between writers and illustrators, the making of New York Times Magazine covers, Pick Me Up, an impassioned call for illustration to get involved in bigger issues and a profile (and cover design) by the estimable Clifford Richards

Peepshow Collective’s new book

Published by Index Book and beautifully designed by Emmi Salonen, Peepshow Collective charts the story of and showcases the work produced by the collective of Brighton graduates, which formed in a London pub back in 2000…

Posters you can listen to

To promote Dry The River’s debut album Shallow Bed, Foam has created 12 posters that act as listening points: hold the attached tin can up to your ear to hear a track from the record

The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt

Fabergé is inviting Londoners and tourists to the city to join in The Big Egg Hunt, to track down a series of artist-designed eggs that have been scattered in hidden destinations across the city.

Intel’s human digital billboard

Party is behind this new project for Intel Asia, to promote the brand’s Ultrabook laptop. In order to demonstrate the Ultrabook’s “thinness and responsiveness”, the agency choreographed 60 people with Ultrabooks to create a flash-mob human digital billboard, otherwise known as the ‘Ultrabook pop-up theatre’…

ARC Needs YOU

The roots of the Royal College of Art’s student-run journal, ARC, go back over sixty years. But unless funding for the production of the next issue can be found, it may already have printed its last. So the students have started a Kickstarter campaign and have several great packages on offer to encourage donations

Slow down at this year’s AV Festival

Twenty exhibitions and 70 events, including concerts, films and walks will take place in the north east of England this March as part of the multimedia AV Festival 12. And this year’s theme is ‘as slow as possible’

Food for Thought

As part of the New Windows on Willesden Green project, where designers are paired with local shops in an attempt to help revive the area, Robin Howie designed a series of Thinker Stools for the London suburb’s Food for Thought cafe

Royal Institution video channel

A highlight of the seasonal TV schedule in the UK, the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures have always provided a nice slice of science in the midst of the hymns and carols. Now many of the RI’s classic lectures are featured in a new video channel

Unusual music formats of the month

It would appear that packaging your album or music release in a jewel case just isn’t the done thing in 2012. Here are some new music packages (from Kindness, Anxieteam, and DJ Food) that disregard music packaging convention…

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