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Together Everyone Achieves More at Kemistry

Designer and illustrator Melvin Galapon has collaborated with image makers Hellovon, Pomme Chan, and James Dawe to create a series of self-initiated artworks which are currently showing at London's Kemistry Gallery...

Taxis lose their 'axi' in NYC

In a bit of identity streamlining, the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission has done away with the letters "axi" on the sides of its vehicles, leaving a single "T" to work as a standalone symbol. But as visual identifiers go, the "T" is rather redundant: the big yellow cab-shaped thing still does a pretty good job of signifying what it is already...

Play the Old Spice guy

The Old Spice man is back, and he's taking one-man-band technology to the next level, by playing a drum kit using only the power of his muscles.

Laibach's Warm Leatherette cover

Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have created the first promo for band Laibach's forthcoming album of cover versions. The video, for the band's cover of The Normal's Warm Leatherette (here translated as Warme Lederhaut), appropriately (given the song's lyrics) features found footage of crash test dummy tests...

Restoring Jesus

Inspired by the recent news story of amateur art restorer Cecilia Giminez' botched restoration of Spanish church mural Ecce Homo by Elías García Martínez, a creative team at BBH has created the The Cecilia Prize website which allows all and sundry to have a go at "restoring" the destroyed painting…

Joss McKinley: Gathering Wool

A new series of images by UK photographer Joss McKinley offers an escape from the bustle of modern life. Gathering Wool, which opens at the Foam Museum in Amsterdam later this week, is a celebration of daydreaming...

Great new ads from around the globe

Here's our latest round-up of great advertising work from all over the world. We begin here in London, with Wieden + Kennedy's latest spot for Nike, which features some lovely puppet action from Aardman Animation's Patrick Boivin...

An annual report full of light and colour

For Austrian lighting company Zumtobel's 2012 annual report, design studio Brighten the Corners worked with artist Anish Kapoor to make a two-volume publication: one book contains the facts and figures for the year, the other is a beautiful printed version of a 1998 video piece by the artist...

Irma Boom designs new logo for Rijksmuseum

Irma Boom has designed a new logo for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, replacing the previous logo by Studio Dumbar, which had been in place for 32 years.

After 25 years, Microsoft unveils new logo

A quarter of a century after its last update, Microsoft has unveiled a new logo as it prepares to launch a host of new products