Paris by way of Street View

Noted at the excellent thingsmagazine.net is a new project from photographer Michael Wolf, who navigated his way through Google’s Street View map of Paris to create some beautiful images of the city

Wolff & Olins: the reunion, 4 of 4

“Obscene and absurd”: Michael Wolff and Wally Olins discuss media attitudes to branding and the branding world today, in this fourth extract of their interview with CR’s editor Patrick Burgoyne

CR’s incredible dissolving bag

Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No landfill.

Breaking the mould?

As the book industry struggles to come to grips with the challenges to sales presented by ebooks, mainstream print publishers are having to become increasingly inventive

CR exclusive: Fever Ray’s Stranger Than Kindness video

Fever Ray’s eponymous debut album has just been re-released as a double disc “deluxe” pack which contains brand new material including this video for the band’s cover of Nick Cave and Anita Lane’s Stranger Than Kindness – directed by Andreas Nilsson

Nice camera, clunky name

Meet the Diana F+ CMYK, the latest addition to the retro-styled range of 1960s cameras from the Lomographic Society. But just so you know, it’s pronounced “Eff Plus Smeek”

Rory Sutherland at TED

IPA President and Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy Group UK Rory Sutherland gave a talk at renowned ideas conference TED in Oxford earlier this year, which has been posted online.

All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Film

After premiering in Edinburgh earlier this year, the film of the best alternative music festival in the world tours the UK from this week; opening in Manchester on Friday and then taking in Glasgow, London, Leeds, Brighton and Bristol

Wild Things

The Royal Academy in London is presenting an exhibition double whammy this autumn. Alongside its excellent Anish Kapoor show, the museum is hosting Wild Thing, an exhibition bringing together sculptures by Eric Gill, Jacob Epstein, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska for the first time.

Wolff & Olins: the reunion, 3 of 4

Wolff and Olins on why the work of some modern-day branding consultants is “despicable” and why brand valuation is “entirely bogus”