Cows, snogging and acid… Airside has created the packaging for Glastonbury The Movie

At a time when you can get online and simply download music and films, really it’s down to the packaging of albums and DVDs to make the tangible music or film product a viable option to the consumer.

With this in mind the creators of the classic 90s film, Glastonbury The Movie – which Mike Leigh notably described as a masterpiece – set about creating a monster of a DVD package so jam-packed with extras and previously unseen or released footage of good ol’ Glastonbury, that the film itself makes up just a fraction of the 36+ hours of content actually contained on the three discs, which come housed in a package devised and designed by Airside…

Just as Facebook is facing closure due to legal wranglings, a new site starts up that potentially offers a similar networking opportunity – and a whole lot more. Although the one of which we speak, Webbliworld.com, couldn’t be more different to Facebook in that it’s aimed at engaging 6-11 year olds and is the colourful fruit of a collaboration between Aardman Animations and Enable Interactive…

Overcrowding never looked so attractive. As part of the Tate Modern’s current exhibition, Global Cities, on display in the gallery’s vast Turbine Hall, is a series of intriguing “density models”. The plywood structures were created by a team of designers and architects at the London School Of Economics, led by Professor Richard Burdett. The models are shaped around the outlines of each city, with each layer of plywood representing an extra 200 people per square kilometre. We spoke to the team behind their creation…

Our regular music video post has fallen off a bit of late, in part because there doesn’t seem to have been as many amazing videos about as usual. To make up for this though, here are five recent beauties for your delectation. First up is proof that talent runs throughout the Gondry genes as Michel’s teenage son Paul joins the family firm with his animated video for The Willowz’s Take A Look Around. The video also sees Paul join his dad and uncle Olivier at Partizan.

Imagine having the same intimacy problem that befell Midas – but with fruit-flavoured sweets instead. The latest Skittles ad keeps it nicely surreal (from TBWA\New York).

James Jarvis’ celebration of the 1974 release of Kraftwork’s Autobahn album.

The exhibition, 50:Helvetica The Lifetime Of A Typeface – which we covered in the July issue of CR – opened on Wednesday evening at the Design Museum on London’s South Bank…