CR May issue cover, issue side. Photography: Luke Kirwan

The double, May issue of CR features nearly 100 pages of the finest work of the past year in The Annual, plus features on design for the London Olympics, advertising and YouTube, the amazing rollercoaster ride of Attik and, we hope, lots of other interesting thing too...

Cover, Annual side

The Designers Republic's special issue steel cover for Autechre album, Quaristice, was one of our Best In Book selections. Warp and tDR have produced so much great work that this seemed a fitting endpoint for a great client/designer relationship

More spreads from The Annual

Will designers remember the London 2012 Olympics as fondly as they do those of 1968, 72 and 84? Not without an improved tendering process and a strong creative director, says Mark Sinclair

Inspiration? Rip-off opportunity? Eliza Williams looks at the effect of YouTube on advertising

The amazing rollercoaster ride of Attik

Beatrice Santiccioli colours your world – she may even have chosen the colour of your Mac

Airside is ten, but it nearly wasn't. Gavin Lucas interviews Fred Deakin

Rick Poynor on Milton Glaser, artist

James Pallister reports from the Colophon magazine festival

Do we need 128 versions of the same typeface? David Quay responds

This month's Monograph (for subscribers only) features Dixon Baxi designer Aporva Baxi's collection of Nintendo Game & Watch games, shot by Jason Tozer

The May issue of CR is out on 22 April. Or you can subscribe, if you like...