Is a Brody worth more than a Sagmeister? Will a Hyland hold its value better than a Carter? Find out on 9 April when over 100 lots from 64 designers go under the hammer of “distinguished rebel auctioneer” Jonathan Barnbrook at The Design Auction.

Trucks, Cadbury’s ad, Agency: Fallon. Director: Juan Cabral. Production company: Blink Productions

The follow-up to the hugely successful Cadbury’s Gorilla ad, from Fallon ad agency, airs on TV later today, but you can watch it here for a sneak preview.

With a soundtrack of Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now, it retains the retro styling of Gorilla, but otherwise slightly lacks the out-and-out weirdness that made the first ad so special. It does perhaps offer a hint of why BA has been having such baggage-handling problems at the new Terminal 5 airport though…

From the Flexifuel ad for Ford by Glassworks

Last night Tate Modern played host to the Escape Awards, the annual ceremony held by the London-based computer graphics and VFX school, Escape Studios, to honour the work of the UK’s best CG talent. Nominees included Framestore CFC, The Mill, MPC and Glassworks with a wide range of work up for each of the eight awards, ranging from student shorts to CG for Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Guinness. Well done to Framestore, who took three of the big trophies – click through for the full results…

Leonard Knight’s understated creation, Salvation Mountain. Photo: Rosa Weber

Situated in the desert by the Salton Sea in Niland, California, Leonard Knight’s man-made mountain of hay and desert clay provides a three-dimensional canvas for Knight to paint his messages of life, love, God and Jesus. Salvation Mountain is an oasis of biblical scriptures come to life in a monumental folk art creation that, since 1967, has been attracting visitors from far and wide.

From this to this: Design Indaba’s 10×10 project will move 100 township families out of shacks (pic: Yasser Booley) and into well-designed houses like this

Design Indaba, the Cape Town-based creative conference, has brought together ten of the world’s top architects and designers to help tackle South Africa’s housing crisis. The likes of David Adjaye, Thomas Heatherwick, Tom Dixon and Shigeru Ban have each worked with a local partner to design a street of ten homes to be built in the Mitchell’s Plain township. CR was there to see the first house going up

Pro-Obama poster by Sam Flores

CR blog readers may recall we posted up two posters designed by Shephard Fairey of Obey in support of Barrack Obama earlier this year. Well, more of Barack’s graphically-able supporters are rallying to the cause – thanks to a collaboration between pro-Obama volunteer group, The 008, and San Francisco store, Upper Playground…