Colin Diamond

In photographer and commercials director Malcolm Venville’s forthcoming debut feature film, 44 Inch Chest, Ray Winstone plays Colin Diamond – a man hell bent on bloody revenge when he finds out his wife’s been sleeping with a young French waiter.

Lego Click website launches

As previous Lego-related posts on the CR Blog have proved, most people love a bit of Lego. So to help fans celebrate the beloved plastic bricks, the toy brand has created Lego Click, a website to share ideas and all things Lego…

Indian folk art inspires Commonwealth Games pictograms

The pictograms for 19th Commonwealth Games which will take place in Delhi later this year are, explains principal designer on the project Sonia Manchada, a blend of the pictograms designed by Otl Aicher for the 1972 Munich Olympic games and Sanjhi, a form of Indian folk art…

Type Trumps 2

Following the success of his first pack, London-based Graphic designer Rick Banks has created a second pack of Type Trumps cards with which players can do battle wielding stats for a host of classic typefaces…

XX: A Sculpture of an Album

London-based CR blog readers looking for some unusual early January entertainment should check out a music video-cum-sculpture for The xx, currently on show at the Vinyl Factory.

Man jumps bull for BBC Radio 4

In Fallon’s latest spot, a man jumps over a bull, to advertise a new series on BBC Radio 4 titled ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’

Earth, the penultimate frontier…

As part of next week’s London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington, The Steps Gallery will be showcasing a series of striking images by French photographer Vincent Fournier…

CES: from the show floor

Away from the big names, Patrick Burgoyne roots around for the cool, the innovative and the just plain weird at the Consumer Electronics Show

CES: Intel’s touch desktop

Despite the large amounts of cash obviously spent by the main exhibitors on their stands here at CES, there aren’t many doing much design-wise. But a touch-screen at the Intel stand has been drawing crowds.

I said, Sit Down!

Surely one of the most oft used parent-to-child commands – and perhaps equally the most unobeyed – Sit Down is the name of the V&A Museum of Childhood’s charming new show on kids seating

CES: 3D, coming to a TV near you

I’m at CES this week – the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which this year looks to be dominated by 3D TV launches