The UK's Royal Mail is to release a set of ten stamps featuring famous album covers

The future of packaging? Creative Review's new issue comes in a plastic bag that dissolves in water

The London 2012 Olympics pictograms were launched today

The last thing that James Dean saw... Death Drive by Dean Rogers is a series of photographs of the places where nine of our cultural heroes were killed in car crashes

A Ferrari Grand Prix car made out of 1500 T-shirts and 88 pairs of jeans

This year's D&AD Annual was designed by Peter Saville working with recent graduate Luke Sanders

Get your official Lego 2010 calendar - all proceeds go to charity

The wonderful work of Noma Bar is celebrated in a new book, Negative Space, which looks at how the illustrator has tackled subjects such as global warming, race relations and national identity

Beautiful paper-based work from illustrator Helen Musselwhite

The humble router re-imagined: Goldsmiths students have been looking at how to transform the boring old router into something much more interesting - like a clock

MTV unveils a global rebrand today by Universal Everything that includes a set of charming films

This life-size skeleton made from plastic cutlery is one of the highlights of the New Blood show of graduate design work this year

200,000 used Coke cans recreate a classic poster for the brand, all in aid of Recycle Week

Russian doll style model representing the technological progress (and miniaturisation) of mobile phones.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the bentwood classic 214 Chair, Thonet is producing a special edition, with a twist

Seismic drone-rock band Sunn 0))) put out some surprisingly beautiful sleeves

Presenting, thee Rubik's Cube Font Generator. Twist to create new letterforms and print using the rubberstamps on each face of the cube

London Life, forgotten magazine of Swinging London, featuring the illustrations of a young Ian Dury (yes, that Ian Dury)

50 cars = 1 bus. Swedish agency Acne created this sculpture out of crushed cars to persuade drivers to take public transport

The UK's Royal Mint is to release one special coin per year in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The first has just been released: just a shame about that logo...

Publishing house Faber is celebrating its 80th birthday with a beautiful set of classic poetry books

Alison Carmichael creates beautiful hand-lettering for ad agencies and the occasional very rude poster

Starved of funds and resources in the 1930s, Spain’s printers found their own, ingenious way to respond to the avant-garde

The Nokia Almighty Music Headset Competition invited entrants to design a Bluetooth headset inspired by a favourite track: this one was inspired by R Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly

Manohar and Samir Manohar Mistry have been decorating Mumbai taxis with amazing typography since 1973

The interior of new Amsterdam creative agency, Nothing, is built almost entirely out of cardboard

Amsterdam Worldwide builds a giant sneaker featuring Mount Fuji and other Japanese landmarks for Onitsuka Tiger's 60th birthday

Photographer Nadav Kander was commissioned by the New York Times Magazine to photograph Obama's People. The resulting 52 photographs are published this Sunday

Pentagram's Angus Hyland designed this free bag for CassArt - how many well-known silhouetted artworks can you spot?

Grace Jones in chocolate - how the album cover artwork was made

Beautiful typography in Non-Format's design for French magazine Very Elle

For Christmas, Hermes has planted silver birch trees around its London store, complete with bird boxes and forest sound effects

A new set of UK stamps celebrates British design classics

Jason Tozer's bubble photographs were linked here before, now he has been experimenting with water drops, which almost look like they are on fire

For geometrophiles everywhere, the Kapitza sisters' book of 264 rather lovely patterns

Dan Tobin Smith and Kilimanjaro magazine do terrible things to teddy bears in the magazine's new issue – as this amazing film reveals.

Korean artist Osang Gwon creates life-size sculptures covered in thousands of photographs - in this case of the band Keane for their new album, Perfect Symmetry.

“The Apifera is a responsive window that takes inspiration from the science of attraction developed in flowers." And you can see it at Selfridges in London

Of All The People In The World is a touring exhibition in which the population of the US and other countries is expressed as grains of rice. One grain = one person

New work by illustrator HELLOVON (post 6898) - Migration, a beautiful project in London and New York

Tyler Brûlé and team discuss their redesign of chic Italian interiors magazine Case Da Abitare

Wallace and Gromit turn male models in DDB's fun new campaign for fashion store Harvey Nichols

As the Beijing Olympics gets under way, Jonathan Barnbrook calls on designers to Remember Tibet

Hard-hitting new campaign by This is Real Art for Reprieve, the charity that provides lawyers for those in Guantanamo Bay and others facing execution.

New film Made In Queens documents the Trinidadian youths who trick out their BMX bikes with gigantic sound systems

Love Stories: a beautiful new illustration project from Marian Bantjes