Fear #09: “A fearless adventurer is on his way to climb up his last mountain. After that he will only stay home, reading newspapers, drinking tea and picking his nose. This is the daydreaming in his head right now. He is used to it. Actually this really will be his last mountain. An avalanche is coming.”

Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov’s latest work is a collection of 99 drawings. Using pen and ink, Solakov describes a range of personal worries and a few of the more general anxieties that characterise modern existence. So it’s cheery stuff then? Well, actually, it’s all very funny – in the wry, existential way of David Shrigley – pairing bleak imagery with a few scrawled sentences in order to bring each piece together…

David Shrigley has been hard at work for Tate again, this time coming up with this appealing selection of goodies that comes with the purchase of a gift membership. Shrigley, who previously designed a limited edition travel wallet for the Tate, has put together a bag, a selection of stationary and a membership card all drawn in his signature style. And with the London Tates showing blockbuster shows of both Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon this autumn, it might be just the time to join.

The 2008 D&AD Annual, designed by Neville Brody, launches in mid-September, but we’ve been given a sneak preview of its cover, shown above. This year the Annual is finally recognising the digital age with the theme ‘Digital vs Anti Digital’, which according to D&AD President Simon Waterfall represents “the evolution of the digital industry”.

The Kalmar Konstmuseum is a new space for contemporary art in southern Sweden and Stockholm-based studio Sweden Graphics were invited to design the identity and signage for the building. We asked Sweden’s Nille Svensson to talk us through the project, which involved stencilling directly onto the building’s walls…

Frank Gehry’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion during construction, ©2008 Gehry Partners LLP

This year’s Serpentine Pavilion has been designed by architecture master Frank Gehry, and marks the first built structure by him in England.

Can we take Obi-Wan’s word on this one? Sadly not, as it seems that Star Wars fan Michael Horn is in fact behind the short film, Death Star Over San Francisco, which he created for Imperial Fleet Week (we’re not sure either) in San Francisco. According to Horn, who is interviewed on the official starwars.com blog, “I shot everything on my junkie DV camera, did motion-tracking and comping in After Effects, and basic sound design in Final Cut.” (Thanks to Coudal’s blog for the original link).