Lush gets a digital makeover

Method has created a new website and customer magazine for cosmetics brand Lush, with a surprisingly minimal design…

Made Thought rebrands G.F Smith

Made Thought has designed a new visual identity, website and brand book for paper company G.F Smith, which it says aims to better reflect the brand’s heritage and the people behind its products.

Pick Me Up 2014

Monster-making, confessing your typographic sins, illustrating for Vogue and designing record sleeves… Pick Me Up festival returns to Somerset House in London this week for a fifth year, showcasing graphic art in all its forms, alongside a series of talks, workshops and other events. Plus CR has ten different exclusive PMU t-shirts to give away.

Google Glass goes into the wild

Anomaly in New York has created a new short film for Google Glass that shows that the product is not just for urbanites but can also be of real use as a tool for research….

Cartoons go bald to promote cancer awareness

April is Cancer Awareness Month in Brazil, and ad agency Ogilvy Brazil has created a campaign to help support kids with the disease that features various famous cartoon characters – including Garfield, Popeye and Hello Kitty – all with their heads shaved.

Garden Cities of To-morrow

Eleven artists were invited to create works for Letchworth: A Vision of Utopia, an exhibition celebrating the world’s first ‘garden city’. Designer Nicholas Jeeves’ entry was a one-off hand-made edition of Garden Cities of To-Morrow, the treatise written by the city’s founder Ebenezer Howard

British Pathé uploads 85,000 films to YouTube

British Pathé has uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 vintage news reports and ‘cinemagazines’ to its YouTube channel in order to bring its newsreel archive to an international audience

Typography is a practice

Adobe’s Typekit has just launched a new site dedicated to honing typographic skills, via a series of lessons and resources, under the name Typekit Practice

Harvey Nichols’ new website

Harvey Nichols has launched a new magazine-style website optimised for use on smartphones and tablets. It’s an interesting approach to content marketing, but the site’s design seems to have divided opinion…