The lines of beauty

Designer Matt Booth creates hypotrochoids (the curved shapes that Spirographs generate) using self-built tools and programs. The results of his experiments have now been made into a series of prints by Print Process

New Aardman short: Pythagasaurus

Aardman director Peter Peake has created a delightful new short animated film. Titled Pythagasaurus, the story stars two hapless cavemen wondering what to do about a live volcano that suddenly appears on their doorstep. They decide to call on a certain math-loving dinosaur for help…

Three days + 16 illustrators = 3,750 drawings

The Church of London took a hands-on approach to creating 2,500 bespoke covers for the latest issue of Google’s Think Quarterly: each one is a different section of a huge floor drawing made by 16 illustrators over the course of three days

New Look video shot using Xbox Kinect camera

Directors Tim & Joe at Colonel Blimp have shot a music video for New Look’s track Nap On The Bow using an XBox Kinect camera which emits thousands of infa-red dots to track a player’s movements in 3D…

Steve Jobs: the official history

We just received a copy of Walter Isaacson’s official Steve Jobs biography, published today. So naturally we turned straight to the bits concerned with design and advertising…

Exhibition: Serge Seidlitz show

Illustrator Serge Seidlitz’ first London solo show is now open at the Coningsby gallery. The exhibition includes original drawings, screenprints, zines, T-shirts and also a number of hand-woven Nepalese rugs sporting Seidlitz’s work…

Typo London: see you next year?

Three days of top speakers from around the world playing to a (largely full) venue: in Typo London does the UK capital finally have the design conference it deserves?

Nice work for Chevy, Nike, Coke and more

Here’s our latest round-up of great new work that’s been sent into CR Towers. First up is a new ad celebrating Chevy’s 100th birthday, from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners…

TYPO London via Bermondsey, Halifax and New York City

At London’s first TYPO conference yesterday, the three afternoon speakers highlighted the benefits of having a good theme in place to anchor the talks. Designers Jonathan Ellery, Tony Brook and Michael Bierut tackled the wide-ranging term “places” in very different ways and it made for an encouraging start to TYPO’s London run

Pushing drugs

In the late 20th century, medicines became big business, with marketing budgets to match. Pharma, a new exhibition at the Herb Lubalin Study Center in New York, will look at the role of Big Pharma in the evolution of graphic design and advertising

More nice publications

Our latest round up of very nice books that have landed on our desks includes self-published brand books, a type reference book, a couple of magazines, an artist monograph, the latest from Nobrow, and a hugely impressive new graphic novel by Craig Thompson…

Holy Flying Circus animations

I really enjoyed last night’s Holy Flying Circus on BBC4, the part-fact part-surrealist dramatisation of the furore surrounding the release of the Monty Python film, Life of Brian. It had some great animated sequences, too, that paid homage to the pioneering work of Terry Gilliam. Here’s how director Jim Le Fevre made them

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