Cheltenham Design Festival 2013

Following its successful inaugural run last year, the Cheltenham Design Festival is back this April, with another ambitious line-up of design luminaries and thoughtful discussions

Alexander Chen’s musical lines

Alexander Chen combines music, coding and design to create charming interactive experiences, one of which turned the New York Subway system into a musical instrument

Introducing Huckle The Barber

London studio Proud Creative show and tell their work on the brand identity of Chris Ward’s new Shoreditch barbers, Huckle The Barber – and reveal how typographic inspiration came from an unlikely source…

Revenge Is Sweet set up Jour Blanc

They’re used to creating magazine and album covers but now Angelique Piliere and Lee Owens (aka illustration duo Revenge Is Sweet) have set up their own luxury silk scarf label called Jour Blanc…

Alive and flicking

Photographer Tom Groves has been following the world of competitive table football since 2010 and his forthcoming book, In the Box, offers a glimpse of this little known, but passionately played, sport

The V&A’s changing face of Bowie print

Bowie stories, it seems, are like London buses today: two seem to have come at once. Here’s a look at a specially commissioned typographic Bowie print to which over 100 designers contributed…

Floria Sigismondi directs new David Bowie video

The video for the second single to be taken from David Bowie’s The Next Day album, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), is directed by Floria Sigismondi and stars Tilda Swinton as a slightly unhinged Mrs B

Eiichi Kono on New Johnston

Whilst researching a feature for the current London Underground 150 special issue of CR, we spoke to Eiichi Kono who, in 1979, fresh from completing an MA at the Royal College of Art, was taken on by design agency Banks & Miles to work on updating Edward Johnston’s eponymous typeface for TfL…

Meet Miss Kō, a restaurant identity by GBH

Gregory Bonner Hale (GBH) has created the graphic identity for Miss Kō, a new Asian fusion restaurant in Paris that sports a Phillipe Starck interior which GBH describe as “a place where cultures collide, fantasy rules and nothing is what it seems”…

Balancing act: 100% Design’s new look

London’s annual design trade event, 100% Design, is under new ownership and has commissioned a new identity. However, when studios Thomas.Matthews and also Form pitched similar concepts, owners Media 10 asked both teams to join forces…

Great new music videos

Here’s a few of the music videos we’ve been enjoying recently, including some fantasy puppetry from Bat For Lashes, beautiful black and white work from Insititute for Eyes and Yoann Lemoine, and Foals bringing dot-to-dots to life…

Jambonbon’s Flying Eye film

Our favourite small publisher in London, Nobrow, has announced a brand new imprint called Flying Eye Books by releasing a charming animated promo created by James D Wilson (aka Jambonbon) and Ben Newman…

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