Ryan Atkinson was commissioned by Hype For Type to create a 16 page booklet that would showcase and promote its Exclusive Faces range of commissioned typefaces. Atkinson's response: to create four typographic posters presented as a call to arms to designers to revolt against dull design...

Romain and M.I.A. play with cars in the desert.

The numbers have all been crunched and the Gunn Report for 2011 has been released. The report combines the results of all the significant advertising award schemes around the world, to identify the most successful agencies, campaigns and clients each year. What is clear from the 2011 results is that it was a pretty good year for the Wieden + Kennedy network....

Arkitypo is a collaborative research project between Ravensbourne and design studio johnson banks that aims to push the limits of rapid prototyping technology in the creation of a 3D alphabet

Namechecked on butdoesitfloat and boingboing earlier today, this 1961 reel from motion graphics pioneer John Whitney is well worth a look. Whitney's home-built analogue computer famously made use of parts from an anti-aircraft gun sight...

As we reported in November last year, Airside is shutting up shop. Now the studio is planning to sell loads of its work, from prints and canvases that have been hanging in the studio, to archived T-shirts designed by the likes of Mode 2, Mr Scruff, Pete Fowler and, of course Fred Deakin...

If you've ever been lucky enough to be approached by a headhunter it's probably not something you'd want people at your present employ knowing about. Interbrand Australia have played on the secretive ways of creative recruitment in a new identity for Sydney-based Chantal Manning-Knight.

To mark its 50th anniversary, this weekend's Sunday Times Magazine cover will feature an image of an installation of over 100 magazines hanging on wires to form the number 50. The image, conceived and art directed by The Sunday Times Magazine's art director Alyson Waller, was created by CG specialist Taylor James...

We've had a few people asking whether our February cover was done 'for real' or the result of Photoshop trickery. Illustrator Miles Donovan explains how he did it

Selfridges windows on London's Oxford Street are currently showing a crop of illustration and design talent with work by Nuha Razik, Becky Sloan, William Richard Green – plus a series curated by It's Nice That – on display...