Illustrator Marion Deuchars explains how to draw a bird in six steps.

Not everyone in the UK is looking forward to the upcoming nuptials of Wills and Kate. For republicans everywhere, illustrator Lydia Leith has an essential Royal Wedding accessory.

A planned new waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen will feature an art installation by realities:united that will blow 30-metre smoke rings out of its chimney as a reminder of the pollution it is emitting.

When graphic and type designer Andrew Byrom decided it was time for a new desk, he thought of a rather novel way to recycle the old one, chopping it up to make giant business cards

This is Alan, one of dozens of canines photographed by Tim Flach for his new book Dogs.

Shipwreck in a gallery – Josh Beckman's installation Sea Nymph

Beautiful contemporary wooden toy boats from Postlerferguson. Too nice for kids.

Chair spotters, test your skills with this iPhone app game featuring 100 classic chairs developed by Mark Stevens from Fail Forwards in Copenhagen.

Great film from animator Johnny Kelly launching YouTube Play, a collaboration with the Guggenheim Foundation to showcase creative videos from around the world

Micro-Type: the cover image for Creative Review's May issue was literally grown in an immunology lab using pollen cells. Incredible work by Frank Conrad. Lab assistant: Bastion Ridley.

Cool new site created by Work Club and Pirata for Formula 1 team McLaren Mercedes. The site streams live data from the pit lane

Charming series of animated films explaining how satellites work

The British Skeleton team at the Vancouver Winter Olympics will be using sleds bearing beautiful 3D portraits of each athlete

Stuck for a Valentine's gift this year? Why not make your own glass heart...

The makers of this beautiful animated TV title sequence used 3D printing to create a series of 'melting' apples

For If You Could Collaborate, designers and illustrators partnered with people from other walks to life to create artworks, like this type cut from wood

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