Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

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Russ Chimes' Midnight Club EP: Part 3. Plus new videos for The Wombats and Amon Tobin

Some new music videos for your eyeballs. First up is the final installment of the three part film directed by Saman Keshavarz to promote Russ Chimes Midnight Club EP...

eBay's box with a message

eBay has launched a re-usable shipping box with space inside for sellers to leave messages for their shipment's recipient

Plumen: the designer lightbulb

The Plumen attempts to marry beauty with utility in a low energy lightbulb that doesn't need to hide its charms under a shade

Are you a chair spotter?

If you know your Jacobsen from your Panton, you might get a kick out of this new iPhone app which turns recognising classic furniture into a game.

Eddie Opara is new Pentagram NY partner

British-born designer Eddie Opara, founder of Map Office, is to join Pentagram's New York office as partner on October 1

World Basketball Festival identity

Sheffield-based studio Sanderson Bob were behind the branding for Nike's recent World Basketball Festival and used a range of glyphs from different languages to add international flavour to the typography...

To brighten up your day

Yum Yum just posted this on our Feed section but I thought I'd put it up here too: they promise it'll brighten up your day

Some new record sleeves

CR subscribers might just recognise the style of the above sleeve for Duppy Writer by Roots Manuva meets Wrong Tom – a new album of reworked Roots Manuva tracks (released this week on Big Dada). Yes, it's by illustrator and art director Tony McDermott, the star of our most recent Monograph...

Ogilvy & Mather's First Editions

Ogilvy&Mather in London has created this series of ads to help promote a restaurant local to its offices, called First Edition...

CR tomatoes?

You might remember that subscribers received their February issue in a biodegradable bag that came with a packet of tomato seeds. The idea was that you could stick the bag in the ground or pot and use it to grow tomatoes in. Seven months on, check out these babies