A skip full of records in Soho

OK, so this isn’t normally the kind of thing we report on here at CR, BUT, stumbling across a scene of Soho types, clambering all over a skip pulling out obscure old records – I had to find out what was going on…

Data visualisation: an aid to understanding?

Data visualisation made it onto the BBC’s Newsnight last night, but can it really aid understanding or is it just another (albeit powerful) way to tell a subjective story?

Infidel by Tim Hetherington

Infidel is an intimate depiction of a US platoon at war against the Taliban in Korengal Valley by British photographer Tim Hetherington. The book offers a deep insight into the soldiers’ lives, including personal reflections by the soldiers themselves. The book is published in October by Chris Boot.

In Print: Swanlights, Maske, Spiller and The New Décor

By way of a round-up of some of the most interesting printed material to come into the CR office recently, here are a few images from new projects by Antony and the Johnsons, Phyllis Galembo, Andy Rementer, and A2/SW/HK

The Times does info-graphics for iPads

The Times has been steadily commissioning London design studio Applied Works to create easily digestible, interactive info-graphics for their digital, iPad-using readers…

Calling all code crackers…

Crack the code that appears on the Contents page of our current (August) issue – devised by designer and illustrator Stefan G Bucher – to win a prize…

Toby Smith: Renewables Project exhibition

CR readers may recognise the above image, as it featured in the Grid section of our May issue. The photographer behind it, Toby Smith, is now exhibiting more work from his Renewables Project at theprintspace gallery in London, from 20 August…

Calavera prints by Telegramme

Celebrate the Day of the Dead a little earlier this year, with this great set of prints from London-based studio, Telegramme…

Where Children Sleep

Where Children Sleep, set to be published later this year by Chris Boot, is a collection of James Mollison’s photographs of childrens’ bedrooms from around the world. The book also contains a portrait of each child and, as you’d imagine, the differences between the spaces each one calls their own are striking

Pixellated vases

Royal College of Art graduate Julian Bond unveiled an interesting casting machine at his graduate show this year. But his working model casts vases in a series of unusual, pixellated shapes

Troika deconstruct the V&A

Troika recently unveiled a kinetic sign that directs visitors to London’s V&A Museum from the tunnel at South Kensington tube station. Referencing the simple beauty of Alan Fletcher’s celebrated identity for the museum, the designers created the stand-alone artwork, Palindrome

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