Could this be the new British flag? In the UK Parliament yesterday, culture minister Margaret Hodge pledged to consider a redesign of the union flag to incorporate the Welsh dragon.

This month’s issue of Creative Review costs just £4 (instead of the usual £5.70). It’s a special issue too, following a month in the life of a client - Will Gompertz at the Tate galleries.

Cecilia Wee and Hayley Newman

Subway Sect is a new radio series, produced by Maria Bartolo and CR’s Eliza Williams, which is airing on Resonance FM, London’s art/experimental radio station, over the next six weeks. The shows aim to explore the complex relationship between art and music and take the form of a series of conversations between artists, musicians, writers, designers, djs and music video directors.

The shows go out each Wednesday at 1pm on Resonance (104.4 FM or online at www.resonancefm.com) and we’ll also be bringing you transcripts of highlights from the shows each week on the CR blog.

On this week’s Subway Sect, artist Hayley Newman is in conversation with broadcaster and curator Cecilia Wee, who co-curates the monthly inter-arts social occasion Rational Rec. Hayley is most famous for her performance art, and has exhibited and performed at galleries including the Camden Arts Centre, the Barbican, and Matt’s Gallery in London. The two discuss the influence that music has had on Newman’s work, as well as some of her most significant performance works. The interview was recorded in London earlier this year.

Our showcase in the December issue of Creative Review is all about music, and of course features some choice cuts of music video brilliance. Here is a selection of the vids featured in the issue, plus some other ones that have grabbed our attention this month. First up is Wade Shotter’s latest for Vincent Vincent & The Villains, which shows that you can’t beat a bit of good old-fashioned hula-hooping.

Will Burtin (portrait above by Arnold Newman. Photo ©Arnold Newman, GettyImages) created intricate scientific models that stunned audiences in the 1950s. As the subject of a new book, his work still manages to amaze, writes Rick Poynor

There can be few harder books to sell to a publisher than historical monographs about graphic designers, especially books about designers who died years ago and are no longer well known today, no matter how renowned they were in their lifetimes. It’s a catch 22 because one reason they are not well known is that there isn’t a book. A case in point is Will Burtin…

The unmistakable rudder stabiliser and engine exhaust of a Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. Sexy!

The many types of aircraft held at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC no doubt attract their fair share of aerophiles. But now even those with just a passing interest in aviation can marvel at the beauty of flight as depicted in the pages of In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight, a new collection of imagery from Carolyn Russo, the Smithsonian’s photographer. Russo’s work focuses on the details of a range of different aircraft and it’s from her re-examining of their various forms and structures that this collection of striking shapes, patterns and abstractions has been brought together.