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).
The first ever UK retrospective of the work of Vilhelm Hammershøi is showing at the Royal Academy of Arts in London until 7 September writes Katya Kan and features over seventy paintings by the Danish artist. Hammershøi’s works are famed for conveying an atmosphere of equanimity and mystery: therapeutic by nature, his paintings almost lull the viewer into an absent-minded daze…
Stills from Somers Town, directed by Shane Meadows, produced by Mother Vision for Eurostar
Somers Town, the new movie by Shane Meadows, director of the acclaimed This Is England, opens across the UK next week. On the surface it looks like a typically British movie, a gritty tale of urban life and friendship set on the streets near King’s Cross Station. However there is something that sets this film apart, and it comes from how it was developed, and, more keenly, how it was funded
Say it the Sewell way with the Sewell Sampler! (Link: Culture Shot)
The world's largest record collection – the life's work of Paul Mawhinney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – is up for sale. Bidding starts at $3 million...
Michael C. Place stars in this new commercial for Pritt's correction fluid products and creates a lovely mural in the process. Can you tell what it is yet?...
It's Pop It's Art are running a competition to find a winning print design illustrating the lyrics to Edwin Starr's classic track, War
The Chemical Brothers are asking fans to submit photographs and short movie clips to potentially be used in their next video for track Midnight Madness
Paul McCarthy's giant dog turd crashes into a children's home
Up on pitchfork.tv for one more day, The Queen is Dead documentary on The Smith's classic album from 1986. Oh the squabbles...
Channel 4 and the Golden Joystick Awards are asking web-based flash game developers to submit their unbranded games in a new category of the GJA
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the enormous 17 mile long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests, apparently. Check out the pictures
Are you a designer that makes and sells your own prints or products? FL@33's next book will collect the grooviest products Made & Sold (working title of said book) by designers, illustrators and artists
Why that would be Birmingham, Alabama. UK city council mistakenly uses an image of the American city in a leaflet thanking midlanders for their recycling prowess
Can you identify the film from one letter from the poster? Good fun if you have 20 mins or so. (Link: DO)
Design your own Dunks using Nike's special Kicks Creator on their dedicated Dunk site...
Oberphones is the moniker under which Christopher Wilson conducts various creative pursuits. He's just launched a new portfolio website
Darren Walsh, creator of Angry Kid, has directed a new ad campaign for the National Express
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