The Nest project is a lovely urban intervention by Fieldwork Facility for city dwellers to encourage birds to nest in their neighbourhoods.

The nests start life in the home, school or office. Participants make the nest ready by working in pencil for a week — each time you sharpen you’re pencil your making more of a home for the incoming birds. Participants then install their nest in the environment and add to a public database.

Manufacturer/designer Alex Rasmussen from Santa Barbara was asked to exhibit as part of the London Design Festival at Somerset House. He is an expert in Aluminum. His contribution to the festival was a 2.90m-tall anodised aluminum wave. Living and working in Santa Barbara California and being a surfer he combined his love for aluminum and the Pacific with this fantastic idea. Allowing visitors to walk on and interact with his design/sculpture created the perfect ‘instagram’ moment.

The chain is a strong symbol of slavery that works singly on one stamp and links together on a sheet to make an even bolder statement. When form and content work hand by hand, they elevate a piece of work to a different level. A great example of the power of simplicity and wit.

On the cover of this book you can read the word PAIN. When looking at the spine, you see the Spanish flag, immediately recognizing that this is going to be about sPAIN. When initially browsing the book the reader is faced only with blank pages. Once you see that it has been french folded you need to inflict some PAIN on the book to get at the content. On slicing open the Spanish flag you then find the work of photographer Toni Amengual highlighting the Spanish crisis. Bravo for Atlas!!!

In late 2015, Polyera announced the Wove™ Band, as the world’s first flexible display product. The Wove band features a flexible always-on touch display which can either lay flat or wrap around a wrist. Manual have created the brand identity, compositions, packaging and photography style. At the core of the brand identity is the logo—The shifting weight of individual characters conceptually echoes the nature of the display which is completely customizable and ever-changing.

Within an hour after the Paris attacks, an artist’s heartfelt symbol of peace became a worldwide sign of support for France. The illustration is powerful in its simplicity: A peace symbol (originally by Gerald Holtom) with the Eiffel tower, rendered in bold, black strokes against a white background. Jean Jullien created the image, “Peace for Paris,” and posted it on Twitter and Instagram. Jean Jullien has developed a remarkable ability to synthesize.

Everyone needs tea towels. These are particularly nice. Designed by Peter Saville for House of Voltaire, each design is derived from food packaging print and construction marks. Clever and effective idea, Peter has been collecting these marks since the mid 1980’s.

Witty ideas, clever solutions, playing with negative space is hard to do. Even harder is convincing clients to go in this direction. 50% of being a designer is being able to solve problems creatively for clients. The other 50% is being able to sell that solution. Turner Duckworth not only managed to create such a clever, distinctive identity for Coca Cola but they managed to sell in through a huge corporation. To me that’s what makes this project extra special.