The Farm’s Paint-by-Numbers

Usually confined to small-scale images of the Last Supper, nature scenes, ballerinas, or other such clichés, this Paint-by-Numbers installation is a psychedelic 3D version by London-based graphic design group The Farm. Created for the London Design Festival's Design Hub at Old Truman Brewery, visitors are invited to don a jumpsuit and use one of the numbered paint buckets to contribute to the piece throughout the …

After School Art

An innocent lamp pole on a quiet street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was the latest bit of urban architecture to get "knitta'd" with it's own knitted accessory by Knitta Please. The slightly subversive public installation is part of a group show kicking off back-to-school season called "After School Art" this coming Thursday, 21 September 2006 and running through 17 October 2006. Inspired by the no-pressure atmosphere …

The London Design Challenge

A participatory highlight of London's Design Festival, the London Design Challenge tasks members of the design community and general public with imagining ways to make London a better place to live and visit. With transport, entertainment, street-life, environment and housing themes, ideas so far include Poke's painting London white (an homage to This Boy's Life?), as well as Tom Dixon's electric bus and Barbara Hulanicki's …