Putting the tease in ‘teaser’

Illustrator Malika Favre has released a saucy animated teaser ahead of her exhibition in the PMU Selects section of the Pick Me Up 2013 graphic art fair which opens in Somerset House next week…

Guess the designer: Secret 7 lets you own a piece of exclusive album art

Can you tell your David Shrigley from your Si Scott, or your Marion Deuchars from your Laura Dockrill? Secret 7″ is back this year with another massive guessing game, pairing tracks from seven mainstream music artists with a slew of illustrators, artists and designers to raise money for Art Against Knives.

The Rubik’s cube as storytelling device

To promote National Geographic Channel’s two new series that focus on 80s culture, ad agency The Corner employed the skills of directors Hoku & Adam at Partizan and also, crucially, of the UK Rubik’s Cube champion Simon Crawford…

The future of travel, imagined by the Layzell Bros

Perfectly timed to be completed while the current issue of CR features them, animation duo The Layzell Bros have finished their latest film – for Fox’s late night all-animation programming slot: Animation Domination High Def (ADHD)

It’s blue, what else matters?

A selection of Chelsea FC players including John Terry, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata were covered in blue paint for a new adidas campaign by London agency The Corner to launch the new Chelsea team 2013/14 home shirt…

The armpit tube map and other ideas

It’s not always easy to consult a map on a crowded tube train when you are squashed up against someone’s armpit. But what if that armpit displayed a handy eye-level map? Just one of Kingston students’ ideas on the Underground

Why designers never retire

At 83 years-old, Milton Glaser is still working. “If I didn’t get up, get dressed and come here, I’d go nuts,” he tells Patrick Baglee in an interview filmed at his New York studio for the upcoming Point conference

OFFSET 2013 Day 3: when illustrators animate

The schedule of the third and final day at OFFSET in Dublin was chockfull of illustrators talking about their work – and a common thread throughout the day has been collaborative filmmaking and animation projects…

OFFSET 2013: day two

Despite something of a melt down of the limited wi-fi at OFFSET in Dublin yesterday, highlights were delivered by Hvass & Hannibal, Ji Lee (image from his Bubble Project, shown above), and Vaughan Oliver…

Bob Gill: a life less ordinary

Bob Gill, co-founder of design studio Fletcher/Forbes/Gill, which later became Pentagram, introduces the audience at Offset in Dublin to his witty, and deceptively simple, design methods

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