Design
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Picturing place: The Three Magnets diagram has travelled widely since its original publication in 1898, but divorced from its original text the image has often been mis-read, highlighting the ease with which images can be isolated from their original context and be mobilised in new ways
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From gold-plated forks to hand-crafted panniers, luxury goods retailers are adding bling to the bicycle
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Glad tidings they bring ... these magical mid-century designs made sure people popped their festive parcels and cards in the letterbox in good time
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The Spanish architects, who specialise in semi-submerged builds in harmony with their natural surroundings, promise an ‘experimental’ pavilion that will ‘embrace the garden’
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They were separated by a century, but the pop-art pioneer and the crafts-loving traditionalist had surprisingly similar views. Can you tell them apart?
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Following previous designs by Vivienne Westwood and Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin is the latest prominent British figure to use the music award as canvas
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Children's books My inspiration: Satoshi Kitamura on why he loves Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and manga
When Satoshi Kitamura came to the UK he was shocked to find reading comics was looked down on, things were very different when he was growing up in Japan... -
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Leading British architect, who works in both cities, bemoans lack of public realm and discussion of buildings’ meaning in Britain
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As the year draws to a close, take a trip down memory lane and share your nostalgia-themed art
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2B or not 2B? Readers get graphic with graphite, in drawings that combine technical brilliance, humour and imagination …
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Future classic or throwaway junk? Oliver Wainwright gives his verdict on the UK’s must-have toys this Christmas
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Japan’s style tribes and catwalk creations are bought to life in Brisbane at an exhibition of Japan’s best designers
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Edward Carey shares illustrations of a particularly unsettling and strange bunch of Victorian characters that star in his Gothic epic Heap House and its sequel Foulsham
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Fashion designer, illustrator and artist Julie Verhoeven tells Kathryn Bromwich about her thrifty new show exploring concepts of femininity
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The story of the English railway station since its Victorian heyday is that of a distinctively creative free-for-all, writes Rowan Moore
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The cat is out of the bag: proverbs sound odd when they’re translated. Writer Matt Lindley and artist Marcus Oakley have turned them into illustrations, writes Kathryn Bromwich
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Multi-millionaire publisher Felix Dennis was an obsessive collector of the great artist-craftsman, who also became infamous for his voracious sexual appetite. Now his archive is up for auction at Sotheby’s
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700,000 bricks make up the sleigh, reindeer, presents and Father Christmas designed by Lego builder Duncan Titmarsh
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Concept one of 20 to make semi-finals of Drones for Good competition, intended to steer technology towards improving lives
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From Barneys’ Baz Lurhmann spectacular to Let it Go live at Bloomingdale’s, Manhattan’s stores have pulled out all the stops to make shoppers spend, spend, spend
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The museum’s resident inventor on designing for the Queen and how new technologies are opening up the maker community
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The former Smiths guitarist talks to Kathy Sweeney about modernism and magazines, Paul Klee and art manifestos, Maxine Peake – and his fans’ impeccable taste
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The co-founder of 12hrs Travel Guides finds tranquility at the stunning, modern Chapel of Silence in Helsinki
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Collector Morris Everett Jr claims to have memorabilia from almost every American film made, reports Ben Child
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Architecture and design blog London's garden bridge: the public park where groups and cyclists aren't welcome
Revealed: the garden bridge planned by Thomas Heatherwick and Joanna Lumley is not actually going to be open to all. Instead it will be a privately-managed tourist attraction likely to require advance booking -
How do you get Tammy Wynette to sing on your record? How do you stop the Teardrop Explodes from imploding? And what’s the wildest thing you can do with £1m? Bill Drummond of the KLF on the strange wisdom of theatre maverick Ken Campbell
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A competition to redesign the Norwegian passport has been won an Oslo design company that has created a modern, bold document already winning praise for capturing the national identity
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Leo Benedictus: A team of designers has created a series of gun-range targets that swap terrorists and zombies for everyday people to highlight the most common victims of gun violence in the US
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Mark Eley is Welsh and emotional; Wakako Kishimoto is Japanese and shy. Their differences have inspired them to work and have a family together
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Rowan Moore talks to Farshid Moussavi about fashion, function and the power of physical space in a virtual world
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Geographer and designer duo Benedikt Gross and Joey Lee have created “Aerial Bold”, a project that finds typography in satellite imagery, writes Kathryn Bromwich
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The world’s most famous jazz label – celebrated for its striking use of design as much as for its groundbreaking recordings – is 75 this year. John Fordham tells the story of Blue Note through a selection of its famous album covers
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Stockholm agency designs modern geometric typeface inspired by 1950s signs to be used by government and corporations
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Nothing was sacred for the 19th-century caricaturist, who was notorious for his mocking sketches of French high society – he even went to prison for six months for making fun of the king. Here’s a selection of his rabble-rousing drawings