One of the late great Alan Fletcher’s last commissions was this cover for Wallpaper* magazine. For the past year, Wallpaper* has been running a series of special, subscriber-only covers to coincide with its tenth birthday. Fletcher’s collage will be the last, appearing on the December issue.

Notice the lack of a logo, something of a sacrilege in publishing these days: “That was his initial suggestion when he sent over the artwork, as the collage kind of said it all,” explains Wallpaper* creative director, Tony Chambers. “‘If you’re gonna do it, you may as well bloody do it,’ he said.”

A bumper crop of great videos for you this week, kicked off by Tim Burton’s skeletal promo for The Killers’ Bones.

For the cover of our latest issue, art director Nathan Gale worked with MetWorks technology studios to create a stunning portrait of illustrator Marion Deuchars. Here, he explains how he came to work with three-dimensional printing and, for the first in CR’s history, create a cover using “rapid prototyping”.

Why We Must Provide HIV Treatment Information, the new publication from i-Base (the “treatment literacy” project that focuses on HIV information provision) includes photography by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. Written by a range of international HIV and AIDS awareness activists and featuring 50 colour photographs by Tillmans, this limited edition book highlights why treatment literacy is essential for empowering HIV-positive people to understand their own treatment.

This week, we’ve mostly been admiring the following record sleeves:

Every now and then, we are reminded why regulating advertising is a very good idea indeed…

(pic courtesy of Frozentoy)