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Illustration by Elisabeth Manus, Communication Art & Design, RCA
The Royal College of Art’s SHOW TWO is on until 5 July, featuring work from the Animation, Design Interactions, Products, Textiles and Communication Art & Design courses. We had a look around the latter – here’s what caught our eye…
Page Tsou’s illustrations of toy guns are well worth [...]

 
Wieden + Kennedy Portland has launched a new campaign for Levi’s, titled Go Forth, which draws on the brand’s heritage as the quintessential American jeans.
 

 
The Levi’s brand has been incoherent in the last few years, having lost the strong position it struck in the 80s and 90s. Much of its recent advertising – particularly BBH’s [...]

Part two of our round-up of D&AD’s New Blood graduate show, including a lovely film for Hewlett Packard from two Kingston students

Matthew Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth created this short film for HP, watch it at the D&AD site here
Rose Blake, also from Kingston, created this lovely comic about David Hockney

This poster for a child obesity [...]

D&AD’s New Blood showcase of graduate work opened tonight. As one of the judges, I got a good look before the private view crowds arrived. Here are a few projects that caught my eye
Loved this twist on the venetian blind from Helena Karelson on the Product and Furniture Design course at Kingston University

Lydia Leith of [...]

A major solo show by artist Jeff Koons, which features work from his Popeye series, is unveiled in London.
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A painting by John Constable is expected to sell for up to £500,000 – a year after it was valued by an East Sussex auction house at £500.
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At their best, Eva Rothschild’s sculptures have an otherness and cool humour. Her sideways glances at 1960s abstract sculpture are wedded to a calculated and eccentric use of form. Cold Corners has none of this magic.
Maybe something got lost in the translation from idea to full-sized, factory-fabricated sculpture. Rothschild’s triangles form a relay, the corner [...]

Preview works from Jeff Koons’s Popeye series on the eve of his first major solo show in Britain

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The artist – and his workers – on why he is plunging 21 upended willow trees into concrete for his new installation at the Manchester International Festival

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Following the success of the newly opened Acropolis Museum, Greek officials are more determined than ever to retrieve their missing heritage. Helena Smith reports from Athens
For as long as most Athenians can remember, the intersection of Makriyianni and Dionysiou Areopagitou streets was a nondescript place, the preserve of those bent on illicitly parking their cars [...]