Rian Hughes at Typo Circle

Type designer, illustrator and writer Rian Hughes will be giving the next Typographic Circle lecture, on November 24

The Adventures of Tom The Lion

Forget the plastic jewel-case – Tom The Lion’s album (released today) comes in a rather lovely wooden box with a hinged lid…

Nice work for Renault, the Meth Project and more

Here’s a round-up of the pick of advertising and music video work that’s caught CR’s eye of late: first up, a striking print campaign for Renault from Publicis Conseil in Paris…

24 hours in photos

This installation by Erik Kessels is on show as part of an exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam that looks at the future of photography. It features print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period…

Photography Annual Motion Category winners

This year’s Photography Annual included a brand new moving image category, which was judged by the CR editorial staff. Winners in this category included Carl Warner’s animated short for Findus, Adam Hinton’s work for the War Child charity, Dean Chalkley’s documentary ‘Young Souls’, which looks at the contemporary Northern Soul scene, and Dave Young’s ‘Everyone has a story’

UK Music Video Awards 2011 Winners

Directing collective Canada picked up the Best Director Award at last night’s UK Music Video Awards, held at the Empire Leicester Square in London and hosted by Adam Buxton. Other big winners include directing duo Daniels, who picked up the video of the year award for their video for Simple Math by Manchester Orchestra.

Are you a design nerd?

DESIGNerd is a new trivia game venture, devised by Brisbane-based graphic designer Kevin Finn of Finn Creative. The first three limited edition packs of ‘100+ Graphic Design Questions by’ have recently launched with each pack’s questions devised by a different designer…

Biological curiosities

Featuring work by illustrators Jennie Webber, Polly Alizarin Harvey and Rebecca Hiscocks, a new London exhibition entitled Specimen looks to explore the freakier side of biology through prints, collage, illustrations, installations and even specially designed wallpaper…

Welcome to Brand USA

Forget the old Red, White and Blue: America is to sell itself to the world via a multicoloured, ‘percolating’ logo by The Brand Union, launched yesterday

Hellraisers, the graphic novel

Forget Frankie Cocozza and his ITV-sanctioned revelry, new graphic novel Hellraisers follows the adventures of “four of the greatest boozers of all time”, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed