Pantone Plus Series launches

Pantone, the company that sets the world’s standards on colour, has relaunched its Pantone Matching System as The Plus Series. As part of the launch of The Plus Series, the company has released this mini documentary giving an insight into the way it works…

Warren & Nick’s new UNKLE video

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones have directed the video for Follow Me Down – the first single from UNKLE’s new album, Where Did The Night Fall…

Not My Type exhibition

35 different Birmingham-based artists – including Mark Murphy (of design studio Surely?), Stef Grindley, Claire Hartley, Jon Burgerman, I Love Dust and Lee Basford – have each created a new typographical illustration for an exhibition currently running at Birmingham’s Created In Birmingham store…

Adidas: Fast vs. Fast

The World Cup-based advertising is arriving daily, but the best we’ve seen so far comes from 180 Amsterdam, for adidas…

Kuala Lumpur Design Week

I’ve just got back from Kuala Lumpur Design Week, a new-ish event aiming to give Malaysian designers a shot in the arm and exposure to an international array of speakers

Made of Coke

Coca-Cola has recently collaborated with design company Emeco to make the 111 Navy Chair, created from 111 recycled plastic bottles…

FutureEverything opens tomorrow

FutureEverything’s annual festival of art and technology opens tomorrow in Manchester. It’s a huge event that takes in design, music, performance and some of the most exciting technology around. The EyeWriter, above, will be the recipient of this year’s design Award from the organisation

Peace, Love, Mud and Mulberry

Mulberry’s flagship store in London has been transformed for an exhibition of photography of Glastonbury festival taken by photographer Venetia Dearden – to celebrate the launch of her new book of imagery taken at the Somerset-based festival…

Kay returns to John Smith’s and more nice work

Need a distraction from the election mess? Check out this selection of great work that we’ve seen at CR Towers of late. First up, comedian Peter Kay and his ‘no nonsense’ character make a witty return to John Smith’s advertising. The agency is TBWALondon, director is Daniel Kleinman.

More Is A Bore exhibition

Anthony Burrill, Buro Destruct, Karl Maier, Leandro Castelao, Noma Bar and Ryan Dixon are among the artists showing at More Is A Bore – a new exhibition of minimalist graphic art which opens later today at The Ship Of Fools gallery in The Hague, Netherlands…