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For the latest edition of The New Yorker, comic book artist Chris Ware has sketched a Hallowe’en themed cover that shows a brigade of Trick-or-Treaters chaparoned by their parents. In a nice contemporary take on the subject, each mom and dad is lit by the ghostly glow of an iPhone…  Ware’s strip, Unmasked, also features [...]

Destroy All Monsters is the name of Juju’s Delivery‘s (aka Barcelona-based German illustrator Julia Schonlau) solo show currently running at Rojo‘s exhibition space in Barcelona. Schonlau cites films Ivan’s Childhood and The Village of The Damned, artists Henry Darger and Marcel Dzama and books Where The Wild Things Are and Lord of The Flies as [...]

As part of its new evening series of Friday Lates, the London Transport Museum is staging Sounds of the Suburbs on 6 November. The multi-sensory event, curated by D-Fuse, will also screen a new short by design studio, FL@33, called 8min20sec. It’s just been uploaded to our Feed section… The short film – uploaded to [...]

Not content with helping get Gordon Brown and other world leaders to the UN Climate Change Conference with its Rise Up Twitterstorm in September, Bristol-based BeThatChange (BTC), the ‘open source’ pressure group, has now set its sights even higher. With its new Get Hope to Cope campaign, it aims to get Twitter’s highest profile user, [...]

The science of water filtration has inspired a specially commissioned work of art in the form of a drinking fountain, housed at London’s Whitechapel gallery… Artist Annie Ratti created the fountain, entitled Following the Flow, for the gallery’s Study Studio and it marks the latest addition to the Whitechapel‘s Social Sculpture series. The design was [...]

Collaboration is the name of the game in a new series of art exhibitions called Pic+Mix cooked up by Intercity for 55DSL‘s new artspace, Studio55 above their Newburgh Street store in London… For each Pic+Mix exhibition a renowned artist or image maker works with another creative of his or her choice – be it a [...]

The next issues of Little White Lies and Huck will look remarkably good on your newsagent’s shelves: the magazines’ covers are two parts of a single illustration by Geoff McFetridge… The Church Of London, the creative agency founded by Rob Longworth, Danny Miller and Paul Willoughby, publishes, art directs and designs both film magazine Little White Lies [...]

In our second extract from Penguin by Illustrators, a new book of talks given by esteemed Penguin creatives, we have the text of the presentation made by David Gentleman, best known for his detailed engraving, lithograph and watercolour work… The following is the introductory text to and transcript of the presentation Gentleman gave at the [...]

The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography has a new home. Curator Mike Essl spoke to CR about one of New York’s design gems   On a recent visit to New York I was fortunate enough to pay a visit to the new home of The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and [...]

Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin will make her Broadway debut next year, playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. Read the original article on the BBC