UVA designs new onedotzero identity

United Visual Artists have designed the 2011-12 identity for the onedotzero festival. The identity will be used as a trailer and introductory film for onedotzero events, and UVA will also present an installation, titled Horizon, at the BFI Southbank during the festival, which takes place in London from November 23-27.

Little Print Shop of Horrors

Manchester-based Creative Spark is raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust with Little Print Shop of Horrors, a series of horror film-themed prints to buy this Halloween

Scratching beneath the surface of the streets

Portuguese street artist Vhils makes portraits by hacking, drilling and ripping into buildings. His first monograph has just been published by Gestalten and contains some striking imagery of his work

CR November issue: The Photography Annual

Creative Review’s November issue is our biggest for five years: 196 pages including 9 on Saul Bass, 6 on Brighton’s new football stadium, 6 on China’s young creatives and 85 pages of great images in our Photography Annual 2011

Shadow play

Working in hand-carved Linden wood and bronze, Turkish artist Yasam Sasmazer creates life-sized figures of children: her first UK exhibition is at London’s Aubin Gallery now

Birding The Net

Lazy birdwatchers will be excited to hear that they no longer have to venture into the great outdoors to indulge in their favourite pastime, as a new campaign from the National Audubon Society in the US releases a series of digital birds across the net.

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…