Faber & Faber’s new word marque

Faber has released a new word marque in a custom, art deco inspired typeface as part of a rebrand led by art director Donna Payne.

Silent Studios’ cosmic LFW show for Anya Hindmarch

How best to show-off a new collection at London Fashion Week? Take the audience into outer space of course. With flying models, dancing bags, giant glowing planets and an epic soundtrack, another impressive Anya Hindmarch show came to Central Hall Westminster last week, this time collaborating with Silent Studios, to bring the collection to life.

iOS7: A refreshing return to clarity

Ten years ago Malcolm Garrett attempted to suggest to Jonathan Ive that it might be time to ditch skeumorphic design. With the release of iOS7 he appears to have had that wish granted. We asked the digital pioneer for his creative assessment of the recent OS upgrade

Diana Beltran Herrera’s amazing paper art

It’s amazing what some people can do with just a few sheets of paper and a pair of scissors – such as Colombian artist Diana Beltran Herrera, who has spent the last few months making hundreds of beautiful and remarkably lifelike birds.

The art on the front of your bike

Design studio Carter Wong has produced an A to Z of bicycle headbadges, all of which come from the collection of Jeff Conner, a cycling-obsessed biology professor from Michigan

Nice work for Johnnie Walker, Zurich, Lloyds and more

We travel the world for this week’s advertising round-up, which features work for Johnnie Walker, Zurich, Lloyds, VW, EE, Kiss, and the New York City Ballet, as well as a set of Russian anti-smoking posters. Click through to check out the work.

Mapping New York’s design community

New York creative agency Athletics and the Cooper Union’s Herb Lubalin Study Centre are launching an exhibition mapping New York’s graphic design community, inspired by urban planner Kevin Lynch’s 1960 study The Image of the City.

Football Type

Designer and Face37 founder Rick Banks has published a not-for-profit book about football and typography co-authored by writer Sheridan Bird.

Eight great new music videos

To help ease you into the start of the new working week, here are eight great music videos that have come out in the last couple of weeks. So grab a cup of tea, sit back and pretend you’re engaging in some ‘research’…

What’s On

CR’s pick of exhibitions, design events and creative activities for the week ahead, including Push Pin Studios exhibiton at Kemistry London, AGI Open conference in London, reopening of the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex, St Bride Library mini conference on book design, Moving Stories: Children’s Books from Page to Screen at the National Media Museum in Bradford, the art of designer MacDonald Gill at PM Gallery Ealing, Recon festival in Leeds, graphic art from Aaron Rose in Berlin, and Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam …

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