Yes, it’s coming up to that time of the year again, when the great and good of the design world decamp to sunny Cape Town for one of the highlights of the conference year, Design Indaba. For 2008, the menu includes Ivan Chermayeff, Gert Dumbar and KarlssonWilker who will all be asked to tell the gathered masses how exactly “creativity can make a better world”…

Partizan director Leslie Ali travelled to the Sundance Film Festival this week, after her darkly humorous short film The Object (shown above) was selected from thousands of submissions to be entered in the official competition. Ali’s trip to Sundance is the latest development in a career that has seen her move from working as an agency creative to directing full-time for commercial clients including Nivea, 3 Mobile, and Sony, alongside making short films.

Ali kept a diary about her experiences in Utah for CR, which included meeting with a talent scout from William Morris, watching The Object shown on the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre, and gossiping with an ex of Jack Black’s at a screening of Michel Gondry’s latest feature Be Kind Rewind. Read on for Ali’s full account of the events…

Architects FaulknerBrowns have a new identity system courtesy of London-based design studio, A2/SW/HK. A2’s Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel worked on the project for two years and their holistic approach represents a major image change for the architecture firm founded in 1962, that concludes with the total redesign of the company’s Newcastle HQ.

White ‘Diamond Stellar Object’ sweater, £30

In our January 2008 issue, we named 21 year-old graphic designer and illustrator Kate Moross as one of our latest batch of Creative Futures. This week sees the unstoppable Moross launch her signature range of clothing – six jersey pieces adorned with bright, psychedelic graphics hand drawn by Moross using Lettraset markers…

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For its recent Paris fashion show YSL took the unusual step of commissioning a film (shown above) to replace the usual catwalk show for its autumn/winter menswear collection. The film, directed by Colonel Blimp’s Sarah Chatfield and Chris Sweeney, was the brainchild of YSL creative director Stefano Pilati and showed as part of last week’s Paris Fashion Show. Running at seven minutes long, it is a glossy affair, presented across three screens and starring Rome actor Simon Woods.