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Calvin Klein showcase

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Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini unveils its latest product line-up at the Milan furniture fair this week, including Wagashi, a design by Luca Nichetto and Massimo Gardone

Volta

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M/M (Paris) has designed the graphics and typography for Volta, Björk’s new album, due for release on 4 May on One Little Indian Records. The sleeve features photography by Nick

Arte Espina rug

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In a bid to save Comic Relief red noses from the dustbin, designers David Bruno and Tom Seymour have created The Chair That Grows. The Bertoia chair by Knoll is

Clicquot Loveseat

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Karim Rashid has designed the Clicquot Loveseat, the first piece of branded furniture from champagne producer Veuve Clicquot. The ‘lovers’ seat’ is presented in soft pinks to complement the company’s

Jonathan Crisp

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Jonathan Crisp is introducing a range of vegetable crisps, with packaging by Ziggurat Brands. The design follows earlier work for the brand by Ziggurat which adorned the packs with caricatures

Landscape and Echo

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Landscape and Echo, by Seamus Staunton, features at the ARTfutures contemporary art exhibition at Bloomberg Space, Finsbury Square, London EC2 this week. Artists whose early work appeared at previous shows

Red Design

Burbuja

Red Design has art directed the sleeve for the debut album from Burbuja, the first release on Cristian Vogel’s Station 55 Records. Burbuja was formed by Merche Blasco and features

Rumble Strips DVD sleeve

Alarm Clock by The Rumble Strips

Simon Gofton has created a vinyl-DVD hybrid for the release of Alarm Clock by The Rumble Strips. Record company Island claims the design of the reversible disc, which can be

Physik

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The Air Is On Fire, an exhibition of filmmaker David Lynch’s paintings, photographs and drawings, takes place at The Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain in Paris, from 3 March to

Peugeot Flux

Peugeot Flux

Twenty-year-old Romanian design student Mihai Panaitescu has won the Peugeot Design Competition with his Flux design, a compact, urban environment vehicle that uses a non-polluting fuel cell engine. Flux will

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From the archives: Picture Post

As we head back into our archives, here’s a gem from March 1990. Jane Lewis looks at the creative ways design firms promoted their services through mail-outs.