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Using around 3,000 still images, Andersen M Studio has animated an extract from Maurice Gee’s novel, Going West, for the New Zealand Book Council… Colenso BBDO commissioned Andersen M Studio to create the stop-frame animation, which took around eight months to complete. The film was designed and animated by the studio’s Line Andersen (one of [...]

The Epica 2009 results have been announced today with the Epica d’Or in the film category going to Saatchi & Saatchi London’s T-Mobile Dance ad (still shown above) which featured a flash mob of synchronised dancers descend on the concourse of Liverpool Street Station… Winners of the Epica d’Or (grand prix) winners in the various [...]

Customers and friends of online book shop Counter-Print will soon be getting a rather lovely poster in the post – courtesy of a collaboration between New Creative and illustrator Robert Hanson… Detail from the illustration “Team is currently printing the poster in black and silver at A1 size,” explains Jon Dowling of New Creative, the studio [...]

White Cube Mason’s Yard and Hoxton Square, London What can a portrait do to its subject, beyond the usual act of depiction? The question is unexpectedly raised in Damien Hirst’s new two-site show. Among the many paintings of carrion crows, skulls, knives, empty pill bottles, corpses and other mortal intimations is a series of portraits [...]

Dubai’s fantasy skyline seems to have been built on sand• Datablog: Dubai’s financial crisis – how much money do banks lend around the world? I am phenomenally stupid. Stupid in every conceivable way except one: I’m dimly aware that I’m stupid. This means I spend much of my time assuming the rest of the world [...]

Pictures from Earth: Art of a Changing World Art is a new exhibition bringing together over 30 leading international contemporary artists to examine the impact of global climate change Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Philosopher and author AC Grayling is our special guest for this week’s podcast as we discuss extraterrestrial life, free-thinking, Cern and climate change. Prof Grayling will be interviewing some of the world’s top scientists in the coming weeks for a series called Exchanges at the Frontier on the BBC World Service. (2:00) To mark the [...]

My, hasn’t it grown? World of Warcraft celebrates its fifth birthday this month, and the population of Azeroth – the virtual world where this online game takes place – is around 11.5 million. More people now play World of Warcraft, or WoW, than live in Greece. WoW is a sword’n’sorcery game in which players control virtual [...]

Evie Wyld beats award-winning novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Aravind Adiga to win this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize. Read the original article on the BBC

Robert Frank’s once-controversial images of 1950s American life, collectively entitled The Americans, is on show at the Met Museum in New York. We take a look at the highlights Sean O’Hagan Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture