Leeds Print Festival 2014

Leeds Print Festival is back for its third year, celebrating contemporary and traditional printmaking processes, for a week of events at venues across the city later this month, including opening night celebrations, a print fair, exhibitions and a series of talks.

The Ride Journal 8: illustration preview

The new issue of cycling magazine The Ride Journal is now available to order online, and as a visual preview, art director Andrew Diprose sent over a few pages and illustrations for us to share

Q&A with underwater photographer Maya Almeida

Maya Almeida specialises in underwater and dance photography. Since being commissioned by well-known dance companies, and several wildlife magazines pulishing her ocean images, she is now focusing on a project that brings these worlds together. We talk to her about her creative process and what it’s like to shoot in the big blue …

Record sleeves of the month

This month’s pick of the finest album artwork we’ve spotted in the past few weeks features an animated cover for Bombay Bicycle Club, script generated work by Atyp and some intriguing photo collage work for Black Devil Disco Club.

What’s On

CR’s pick of exhibitions, design events and creative activities for the week ahead including environmental graphic designer Deborah Sussman in LA, mixed media type and wood artwork from Scott Albrect in New York, photographer William Klein in Amsterdam, Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life in Liverpool, Take a View: Landscape Photographer of the Year in London, America Latina photography show in Paris, The Design & Typography of Louise Fili in New York, and Sebastiao Salgado’s Genesis project in Paris…

Made in Britain’s new logo

The Partners has designed a new logo for Made in Britain – a national campaign promoting products manufactured in the UK. We asked design director Kevin Lan about the project.

Unexpected Virgin Active ad from Karmarama

It’s January, so it’s time to think about detoxing and joining a gym. What a drag. To help you along, Karmarama has created this new spot for Virgin Active, which ignores all the usual gym bunny clichés and instead features a man riding a motorbike furiously across an African desert in his pants…

Spring redesigns Visit Suffolk

Southwold design agency Spring has launched a new website and campaign for Visit Suffolk offering tourists an interactive guide to the county

London, home of menswear

The Mayor of London has launched a campaign to promote the city’s menswear industry showcasing iconic fashion looks invented in Britain.

The weird genius of Old Spice Momsong

In the latest Old Spice campaign from Wieden + Kennedy Portland mums lament losing their lovely boys to predatory females lured by the boys’ powerful scent

Our world in pictures

A community festival at a mud mosque in Mali, skateboarding clubs in India, Japanese macaques, Russian bears and a solitary figure on a misty lake in China – the 2013 Travel Photographer of the Year Awards once again present a stunning variety of winning images.