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Friday Round-Up

Patrick 15/02/08, 08:42

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Weak Buttocks, a mouse, what’s really in hot dogs and a clever calendar: A little shot of inspiration for your Friday morning drawn from recent projects sent in to the CR offices.

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Designs of the Year Opens

Patrick 13/02/08, 12:04

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The Design Museum’s Designs of the Year show (or, rather the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year as we are obliged to call it) opened last night. CR was there with somewhat rubbish digital camera in hand…

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Yugo Nakamura: The Craftsman

Patrick 04/02/08, 11:51

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Nakamura’s personal site, yugop.com, works as a digital sketchbook, showcasing an extraordinary array of techniques. Shown here is OvalX3, from 2001.

In a world filled with bloated, work-a-day and downright irritating websites Yugo Nakamura creates compelling beacons of playful ingenuity and simplicity. MICHAEL FITZPATRICK caught up with Japan’s finest landscape- gardener-turned-designer for CR

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Uniqlo Reborn

Patrick 22/01/08, 17:01

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Over-ambitious expansion and over-reliance on one product nearly ruined Uniqlo, but now, thanks to employing an array of creative talent, the Japanese retailer is back in style. By Michael Fitzpatrick

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Design Museum’s Designs of the Year Shortlist Revealed

Patrick 14/01/08, 18:12

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More information is slowly leaking out about the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year show - we now have the complete Graphics shortlist

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A trailer for Marc Craste's beautiful new film Varmints has been released online

Christoph Niemann has a new blog, Abstract City, on the New York Times' site. His first post is a rather sweet illustrated tale of his sons' infatuation with the NY Subway

What the @&$?!! is a grawlix? Hoefler and Frere-Jones explain all (link: DO)

Non-Format reveal a nice new site, updated with lots of new work. Check out the FAQ section for everything you need to know about Jon and Kjell and their working process

South Carolina not "so gay", apparently...

Shepard Fairey auctions the original artwork for his Obama poster for charidee. Current bid: $60,000

The Museum of Notebooks. There's some lovely stuff here... (link: Coudal)

Noel Gallagher opens his rather large mouth once again... this time proclaiming that the new Oasis album cover art has been created by "the most expensive graphic designer in London". That's Julian House, according to Gallagher

"Ad agencies borrow from artists who borrow from advertising. Isn’t it great when things just work?" The NYT looks at the creative industry's most notorious cycle of influence...

Another chance to see Iain Follett's beautiful collection of stamps that made up our January 08 edition of Monograph (free to subscribers of CR)

A vast archive of vintage Russian advertising posters

Don't Panic has launched a competition to design a character for new PS3 game LittleBigPlanet. Deadline: August 4

Smoke & Mirrors post-production is sponsoring Blitzkrieg Bop, an exhibition at Man & Eve gallery in London, featuring work by Peter Saville, Ian Davenport and more

Designer and art director Matt Willey recently published an animation on YouTube which documents every single decision made in laying out a magazine feature

Comic Sans, applied well? Armin Vit thinks he's spotted the one good application of the typeface graphic designers love to hate (link: DO)