November 2010: Simon Norfolk’s satellites

Simon Norfolk, in conjunction with This is Real Art and SES Astra, the world’s biggest commercial satellite operator, has followed the launch campaign of their Astra 3B – one of the biggest satellites ever launched.

New iPhone app: Grallery

Grallery – the latest iPhone app release from ustwo – is actually a showcase for their iPad wallpaper creating app, Granimator…

Quite a following

Yesterday Creative Review—or more properly @CreativeReview—hit the landmark figure of 200,000 followers on Twitter. To celebrate, we spent the day giving away lots of nice things

CRTV: OPEN Studio / Landfill Editions film

In the first of a fresh series of studio-visit films, we visited London’s OPEN Studio to find out about its residents’ shared philosophy and also to talk to one of its founders, Hugh Frost, about his Landfill Editions publishing project…

New Channel 4 branding by Rudd Studio

Five years on from their rebranding work for the channel, Rudd Studio updates the Channel 4 splintering logo in a series of new on-air graphics packages

The T-Mobile Flash Mob Returns

Imagine the scene: you’ve just arrived at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 after a long flight, feeling a bit stinky, a bit disorientated. And then you are greeted by this…

New record sleeves from Brian Eno, COS/MES, Nick Jaguar, and more

It’s time for a round up of new record sleeves that have caught our eye of late. First up is the rather tasty Limited Edition Box Set of Brian Eno’s forthcoming album, his first release on Warp Records: Small Craft On A Milk Sea – a musical collaboration with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams…

Logan designs onedotzero 2010 identity

The identity for this year’s onedotzero festival – which arrives in London on November 10 – has been designed by Logan, in response to the festival’s theme of ‘utopian visions’…

Oops: a short film of dropped shots

Chris Beckman’s short film Oops recently won the top prize in the Vimeo Awards’ Experimental category. It cleverly edits together a whole range of home video clips that each feature a camera being accidentally dropped

Postcards from Mr Bingo and Ian Stevenson

Concrete Hermit has two freshly published books of artist postcards – one from Mr Bingo, another by Ian Stevenson. Both are choc full of irreverent silliness which has brightened up my day (it’s grey and wet here in London) so I thought I’d take some pics and share them…