Patrick Burgoyne is blogging all week from Design Week Monterrey

The regional speciality in Monterrey is cabrito, or baby goat. And there’s only one place to eat it: El Rey Del Cabrito where, if you’re lucky, you’ll meet owner Jesus Gonzalez. He’s not exactly the shy, retiring type and his restaurant is a design gem…

Patrick Burgoyne blogs from Monterrey Design Week in Mexico. Above: DWM director general Michael Garcia gets proceedings under way

Untitled by Popel Coumou

There are a few places still available for the next Creative Futures event at London’s 3ROOMS next Monday evening. This is the second of three events hosted by Creative Review and PlayStation and will feature photographer Popel Coumou and creative team Sam Akesson and Tomas Mankovsky from Fallon. To register to attend, simply go here. Places are very limited so please get to the venue early to be assured of entry. Each event runs from 7 to 10pm at 3Rooms, a unique space on Hanbury Street, London E1. Each of the Futures will speak about their work, while the work of the other nominees will also be on show.

Christmas is coming, in case you hadn’t noticed. To alert us to this, over the last few weeks Christmas lights have been switched on all over London, filling the streets with gaudy displays. Except on Regent Street that is, which this year, thanks to a collaboration between Nokia and Wieden + Kennedy ad agency, has taken a surprisingly elegant approach.

Patrick Burgoyne will be blogging all week from Design Week Monterrey in Mexico. Shown above, the view from his hotel window. Note disappointingly cloudy weather. Serves him right.

Shape, the fifth Design Week Monterrey conference, kicked off today, 20 November. The three-day event, organised by Monterrey design school, CEDIM, brings together over 1000 students from Monterrey and other parts of northern Mexico to hear talks from a diverse array of international speakers, although not Bruce Mau…

Cinemagoers may be slightly confused by one of the films that will appear amongst the regular trailers in selected cinemas across London from today. Depicting a street scene in Borough Market, the beautifully shot film (shown above on YouTube) sees Jude Law walk through the market, pausing to buy some fish while poetically pondering life’s mysteries. Yet at the end, instead of revealing that the film is a snippet of a forthcoming blockbuster starring Law, it has a more teasing tag, simply saying “Come, See, Experience, Real Time Movie, Borough Market, 30 Nov 07, 11.30am”.