The Architectural Association has unveiled its latest Summer Pavilion: designed by third year Danecia Sibingo, its undulating form now sits outside the AA in London's Bedford Square

This is the fourth year that the AA has challenged its students to create a temporary Summer Pavilion from sustainable timber – last year's was a recent D&AD award-winner (see here).

Driftwood was designed by concept designer Danecia Sibingo, a 3rd year student, and her team of Lyn Hayek, Yoojin Kim, Taeyoung Lee, Suram Choi, Kyungtae Jung, Jerome Tsui, Feras El Attai, Rama Nshiewat, Camille Steyaert, Hisashi Kato and Ryan Phanphensophon. Apparently it "provides a thoughtful, provoking reminder of the UK’s inextricable link to the sea - its undulating form created by the motion of the water, carried by waves and coming to rest in busy central London".

The opening of Driftwood coincides with the AA's Projects Review that showcases its students' work. More details here.

Driftwood is on show in Bedford Square until July 25.

Images © Valerie Bennett

At the Milan Furniture Fair in April, Magis launched a cardboard playhouse designed by the Spanish designer, Javier Mariscal. Now available in the UK as part of the Mariscal: Drawing Life exhibition at London's Design Museum (more on the show itself, next week) "Villa Julia" is a bijou residence with some handsome cladding work and its own garden tap. Viewing recommended...

"Villa Julia" is available from the Design Museum Shop – though, as yet, doesn't appear to be on the Shop's website – and comes with a set of stickers so that children (or fans of playhouses) can personalise their own Mariscalian villa.

It's not cheap at £159 so if you're looking for something a little more affordable, then there's always this limited edition Colours Are Always Beautiful poster (£12.50) which is also sold in the Design Museum Shop. 

Evian Rapper's Delight, ad agency: BETC Euro RSCG, production company: Partizan, director: Michael Gracey

Remember the Evian babies? Well, they're back...

Scarily, it's now over ten years since the first Evian babies appeared, performing in an underwater ballet. This time, they are out of the water and displaying their rollerskating skills in a new ad directed by Michael Gracey. The spot is set to a remix of Rapper's Delight by Dan The Automator, which is also available for download.

Making-of films and other info on the campaign can be found at evian.com.

CR was amid the gently steaming crowd at the opening of the University of Brighton Graphic Design and Illustration show last night, just off London's Brick Lane. Here's a few highlights

Josh White designed a lovely poster for a film festival as well as that for the show (this is his photo)

And this is my (much worse) photo

Several of the students prersented album sleeve ideas. This one is for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project and Edgar Allan Poe, designed by Lucy Pritchett

And this Fleet Foxes album is by Sarah Prismall

Meghan Limbrick's 3D work was inspired by the novels of Mervyn Peake

Joe Porter's poster celebrates the end of apartheid using elements of the insignia of the nine new provinces of South Africa and the country's motto that translates as unity in diversity. Not the jigsaw puzzle background

Also from Porter

And this typeface based on a found mosaic from a 1940s hosiery shop

Poster by Rob Matthews

We've already featured Kyle Bean's Evolution of the Mobile Phone project in our Feed section. His project on disposable technology features cardboard models of electronic devices

This poster from Richard Carey references Edgar Allen Poe's work with cyphers and cryptography. In 1840 Poe challenged the public, saying that he could crack any code sent to him. The poster details his working method.

Also from Carey, this poster

And this

And two design conference posters from Sarah Hatch

From Kit Humphrey

All round, a very strong show and well worth a look. It's at the Rag Factory, Heneage St, London E1, until July 6

Update
Here's another shot of that cool floor (see comments below)

According to mediauk.com, CR is now the fourth most popular UK magazine on Twitter, with 11,500+ followers. If you're on Twitter, and haven't yet signed up to follow our tweets, you can do so, here. Our Neil does a fine job linking to some very interesting things and the best bits from the CR blog.

Regular readers of the CR blog may recall us posting about London club-night Get Involved's posters in the past. Each month Get Involved approached a different designer or illustrator to create the poster, meaning the night amassed - over its three year tenure at central London venue The Social - a legacy of lovingly designed promotional materials. 

Actually, I've got a confession to make - Get Involved, is one of my extra-curricular projects. I couldn't resist commissioning artists and image makers whose work I admire to create the posters for my little club night and that's why the artists to get involved (excuse the pun)  include well established image makers such as Anthony Burrill, Build and Jon Burgerman - but also lesser known, up and coming artists such as Roo Walton, Ali Graham and Lazy Oaf.

Now, for the first time, all the Get Involved posters are being reprinted as archival art prints (available to buy in strictly limited editions of 10 at £20 unframed)  at and exhibited at London's Concrete Hermit Gallery where contributing artist James Joyce and design duo Crispin Finn will be offering limited edition Get Involved prints for sale exclusively through the gallery.

Here are a selection of Get Involved posters from the show:

by TwoPoints.Net

by Richard Hogg

by Lazy Oaf

by Sam Muir

by Dave Oscroft

The above artwork by James Joyce was originally created for a promotional postcard for Get Involved and for the August 2007 event poster. Now, especially for this exhibition, it has been printed at approximately A2 size in a strictly limited edition of 25 numbered and signed Giclée prints.

Crispin Finn's hand screenprinted poster for the last Get Involved party held at The Social back in December last year was produced in an edition of just 45. Some were given out along with compilation CDs on the night and the remaining posters are being sold at this exhibition. Buyers of the print will receive a free Get Involved compilation CD.

Also being exhibited for the first time is a selection of photographs taken at Get Involved by top rock'n'roll photographer Dean Chalkley:

The Get Involved Poster Show opens tonight and runs until 31 July at Concrete Hermit, 5a Club Row, London, E1 6JX

Opening times: 10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday (except Bank Holidays)

Despite a painful wrestle with the back end of the then brand spanking new CR website and blog with my Some Nice Publications post back in May - I thought I'd do another round up of nice publications...

If you read the original post, you will have seen images of issue one of Nobrow magazine. Now the Nobrow Small Press has completed its very first screenprinted edition, The Bento Bestiary, which features illustration by Ben Newman and words by Scott James Donaldson. The book, hand screenprinted in three colours in a strictly limited edition of 100, recounts "the habits and whims of a ghastly group of ghosts and ghouls from ancient Japanese legend," according to the blurb about it on the Nobrow website. Here are some pics:

Actually, I was in the Nobrow studio when the final black colour was going on the pages - CR subscribers can have a look at the footage (in two parts) I took while I was visiting by clicking through to the CR TV section on the site

Floor To Wall: Plastic People Flyers 1988-2003 is a fairly self-explanatory title. This little book collects and celebrates the artwork created by designer Ali Augur for London club Plastic People over a five year period - with a foreword by DJ writer and producer Charlie Dark. Many of Augur's flyers for various nights held at the were collectible because he introduced illustrative themes - such as his hand drawn images of famous London tower blocks and which appeared on flyers for Balance - or the patterned flyers for the same night that, were inspired by the upholstery found on the seating on the different London Underground train lines.

Augur self published the book using Blurb and it's great to see this collection of disposable print ephemera celebrated like this. 

This has the appearance of a brochure but actually, The Master builder: Talking with Ken Briggs is a celebratory look at the posters created by designer Ken Briggs for The National Theatre from the mid sixties through to the early seventies. As well as showing a selection of Briggs' posters and programmes from, the booklet features an interview with the designer conducted by Sara De Bondt and Fraser Muggeridge earlier this year.

The accompanying letter that came with the booklet explains that The Master Builder "is the first publication by Occasional Papers, a new, London-based publisher specialising in low-budget, content high books on graphic design and contemporary art." 

Forthcoming titles from this new publishing venture include The Form of the Book book, an A5, 96 page volume which will feature transcripts of a one-day symposium on book design held at St Bride Library with contributions by Richard Hollis, James Goggin, Mevis & van Deursen and more.

I'd never heard of Wooooo until last week when Wooooo issue 6 landed on my desk. It's a magazine but in a book format stuffed full of  interviews with a host of different young go-getting cool types, such as model Agyness Deyn, photographers Jaimie Warren and Philip Lorca Dicorcia, editor Christopher Bollen and comedian Zach Galifianakis - to name a few. Really like the use of yellow ink as well as the black throughout.

Ah, a music release nestling here in a Nice Publications post... Hopefully we'll see more and more of this kind of thing as record labels look to furnish music fans with lovingly conceived and produced packages for their offerings... 

This particular release is Mika's Songs For Sorrow EP released on Casablanca Records which comes in the form of a hardback book with song lyrics and pages of illustration which bring to life the lyrics of each song - created by a host of artists and illustrators that include Peter Blake, Da Wack, David McKee, Jim Woodring, Richard Hogg, Huck Scarry and Sophie Blackall to name just a few... The actual CD is housed in a sleeve tipped on to the inside back cover.

Mika is credited with the concept and art direction of the package with design and layout credited to Alex Hutchinson. Additional design and layout: Richard Hogg and DaWack.

We happen to know that Mr Kanye West is a frequenter of the CR blog and has linked to some of our choicest bits via his excellent site. So it's nice to be able to return the favour with these mock-ups of what you can expect to see if you have tickets for Kanye's European tour. We're guessing keywords in the brief for the stage set may have included "gold" and "shiny"... 

And just in case you thought he couldn't pull this off (it could very well play havoc with his ankles) here's a shot from a recent rehearsal, which he's blogged about, here.

The Economist is to debut a new commercial on 3 July which seeks to reach out to a younger potential readership. Red Wires, from agency AMV.BBDO and directed by Tom Carty (he of Guinness Surfer fame), stars wire-jumper Florent Blondeau walking through a city on a series of red wires.

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The film is somewhat reminiscent of Carty's earlier Rush Hour spot for the BBC. According to The Economist, the spot "marks the beginning of The Economist talking to people who might not yet consider themselves to be Economist readers through its marketing and advertising. It was sparked by research undertaken by the magazine last year which discovered that, because of the rise in the number of people going on to university, there are now over 3 million people in the UK whose interest in world affairs, travel, news and politics suggests an unconscious affinity with what The Economist reports on every week."

In that respect, it follows from the AMV print campaign that we reported on last June, which was also targetted at a younger audience than the traditional white on red ads that are held in such reverence by the industry. The Economist says that the “Let your mind wander” endline is "a metaphor for the inherent pleasure in connecting different ideas, and how this is reflected in the wide-range news and analysis available in a copy of The Economist".