Is this the new Google logo?
The Google logo seems to have grown up (and been toned down) in the Chrome Beta for Android APK
Pentagram makes NYC maps for the iPhone age
The design firm's city identity joint venture, PentaCityGroup, has produced New York's new wayfinding system
Snøhetta's first UK building opens this month
Norwegian starchitects make UK debut with a Maggie's Centre in Aberdeen
Hirst and the Chapmans take on Stormtroopers
David Bailey, Antony Micallef and other creatives reinterpret the iconic Star Wars helmet
Tuymans and Dean at the London Art Book Fair
The capital's fifth annual art publishing event opens this week at the Whitechapel Gallery with a set of great talks
Frieze London brings new gallery surge
Fair coincides with a set of openings, including Victoria Miro's Mayfair space and Sotheby's private sales gallery
Ed Ruscha explains his love of Gas Stations
75-year-old artist describes why he chose to feature the quotidian landmarks in his first art book
Art study fever sweeps Chinese provinces
The lure of college entrance is enticing many Chinese youngsters to paint and sketch
Redzepi changed food, now he's changing coffee
Noma's René Redzepi explains how he's recreated the restaurant's coffee culture, at the Nordic Barista Cup
World of ice suspended above a Chinese quarry
Coop Himmelb(l)au's latest venture in China sees Wolf D Prix suspending Snow World between cliffs
Find Utopia with René Burri in Switzerland
The Swiss-born Magnum photographer is the subject of an artist-themed retrospective in Geneva
David Adjaye makes furniture debut with Knoll
The award-winning architect says the process forced him to rethink product design
Toyo Ito on how to fix Japan
The Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate looks beyond buildings to examine underlying social structures
Artists revisit Diego's Detroit Industry murals
Marking the 80th anniversary of Rivera's Detroit Industry murals MOCAD asks artists to depict the city's later years
Introducing D.O.M.
Phaidon editor Daniel Hurst previews our latest gastronomy book D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients - and talks about how the brilliant larger than life São Paulo chef Alex Atala is revolutionising Brazilian cooking
SOM’s Dubai bank boasts overhanging boardroom
Skidmore Owings and Merrill puts the boardroom on show in its “quiet sculptural form within Dubai’s skyline”
Steve McCurry on TV and in the gallery
The iconic Magnum photographer squeezes a peerless career into six minutes for the Californian news cycle
UNStudio creates big wheel with own social network
Nippon Moon, Dutch architecture practice's giant observation wheel in Japan, also features double decks
Neutra’s Boomerang Chair makes a comeback
Modernist architect's furniture (featured in The Design Book) receives worthy reissue courtesy of VS America
Richard Prince's protest art comes to London
The American artist shows his placard paintings together for the first time. What should we make of them?
Stephen Shore's personal philosophy
The American photographer looks back on a momentous career with Imagista's Heidi Hartwig and Lauren Festa
The sad story behind new paint and pixels artworks
How HO Siu Nam, South's Every Daily series became part of the grieving process for the loss of his father
Elliott Erwitt, male model
The photographer steps in front of the camera alongside fellow octogenarians to mark Cole Haan's 85th birthday
What to expect from Frieze Talks 2013
The London art fair's talks line-up looks great, and it's packed with Phaidon artists and authors
See Lisbon's incredible slot-together pavilion
Kairos Triennale pavilion eschews screws or glues and is formed instead by some rather clever concrete panels
Meet Steve McCurry at Peter Fetterman Gallery
Steve is the Mick Jagger of the photography world - Fetterman tells Phaidon on eve of his Santa Monica talk
Introducing Art & Place
Phaidon editor Rosie Pickles previews our forthcoming book on Site-Specific Art of the Americas
LA’s car museum shifts up a gear with redesign
Kohn Pedersen Fox works its magic over the facade of iconic 1960s Welton Becket building
Go to India with Martin Parr
British travel company, Cox & Kings, is offering a 10-day trip to northern India with the Magnum photographer
OMA to build Colombia's Brasilia
Koolhaas' practice will build largest institutional masterplan in Latin America since Niemeyer’s Brasilia
Transvestite Putin painter flees Russia
Konstantin Altunin, creator of the controversial painting of the Russian leader, is seeking asylum in France
Blood, guts and inspiration at MAD3
High profile speakers including René Redzepi, Alex Atala and Alain Ducasse stress the need to respect animals - and ourselves - in what we eat and how we consume at food symposium in Denmark
David Mellor's designer street
Iconic British designer has his street furniture showcased in mocked-up road
Stephanie Gonot's Fad Diets
Diet Coke and cigarettes diet (and others) visualised with a little help from LA-based photographer
Assistant to Jasper Johns charged with theft
The American artist's long-standing assistant has been charged with stealing 22 works, and selling them for $6.5m
Did Dieter Rams's T3 inspire this new radio?
The 55-year-old design inspired Jonathan Ive, and now may have given rise to a new Lexon radio by Philip Wong
Why is Damien Hirst sweet on Gonzalez-Torres?
The British artist shows his Visual Candy series alongside the late Cuban's equally sugary creations
Kusama's Infinity Nets open the new Victoria Miro
The 84-year-old Japanese artist's hallucinatory paintings inaugurate the gallery's new Mayfair space this October
Bouroullec brothers turn back the Tyde
Ronan and Erwan's height-adjustable work top for Vitra deserves standing ovation
Classic British cars parked on new stamps
London graphic design firm Why Not Associates tracks down Lotus, Rolls-Royce and MG owners for new set
New York duo designs African Summit Centre
Inner facade of husband and wife team WORKac's new building is clad in pale gold aluminium
Dancing on the ceiling
Daniel Schofield's Brogue Light for Deadgood plugs into English autumn winter style
Jim Golden's still lifes
Ex-New York ad guy moves to Oregon to create photos that capture essence not beauty (though we like them)
Photographing the model crime scene
Corinne May Botz spent six years in the Maryland State medical examiner’s office shooting 500 images
Time to upgrade your Oyster card
The Underground is redrawn for Designjunction’s Oyster card holders
New York's creative scene gets a $300 million 'shed'
Diller Scofidio + Renfro teams up with stage set designers extraordinaire Rockwell Group for Hudson Yards project
Akihiko Miyoshi's Abstract Photos
Artist, photographer and computer engineer plays with mirrors, paper and tape to give depth to 2D photographs
Singapore just got leafier
Architect WOHA creates sky gardens high above the metropolis in Park Royal Hotel
Mies van der Rohe collages go on show in New York
Previously unseen mood boards in Cut 'n' Paste shine a light into inspirations behind seminal works
Arne Jacobsen’s iconic 1950s Tongue Chair is back
Mid-century modern classic is available again (and it's a bit more stable these days)
Shooting hoops with Adrian Skenderovic
Paris-based photographer collects lost basketball hoops while on his travels
Photographing in the fourth dimension
Fong Qi Wei invites you to time travel within the frame of a single photograph
Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh gets an organic addition
New business school by young Mumbai practice Planet 3 Studios takes shape on outskirts of Indian city
Introducing The Chinese Art Book
Phaidon Senior Editor Diane Fortenberry on a book that will clue you in (and hopefully inspire a lifelong passion)
New iPad ads feature Phaidon's Design Classics app
Those billboards springing up on San Francisco streets and in London tube stations look strangely familiar
Hella Jongerius updates Prouvé classics for Vitra
The Dutch designer is taken with the "form follows function" beauty of the late French modernist master
René Redzepi gets David Chang to curate MAD3
The Noma founder asks Momofuku's main man to oversee his symposium, which this year is dedicated to guts
Warhol, Bacon, Marden and Kiefer iBooks out today
We're very pleased to announce our Phaidon Focus books are now available as iBooks in the iTunes store
Has Arne Svenson violated his neighbours' privacy?
NY court rules on whether the photographer was within his rights to shoot through an adjacent apartment window
Holzer debuts her "heap of displays" in Hong Kong
Jenny Holzer's Light Stream installation updates earlier slogans in a "pulsating, flashing heap of text"
Damien Hirst's new 9,000 square-metre art studio
The artist's West Country studio, gallery and formaldehyde out-building is the world's largest art production site
Ruslan Khasanov’s soy sauce-inspired art
Russian photographer and graphic artist says Asian cookery motivated his oil ink and soap series, Pacific Light
A. Quincy Jones' LA retrospective
The pioneering California architect receives his first major retrospective courtesy of LA's Hammer Museum
Pre-Raphaelite women top UK art poll
Public art initiative, Art Everywhere's poll has been topped by two Pre-Raphaelite works by Millais and Waterhouse
The palaces of the bird world
Photographer Dillon Marsh has been fascinated by the gigantic nests of Sociable Weaver birds since childhood
Detroit digitizes its Diego Rivera murals
Delicate decaying drafts of America's great industrial age digitized for posterity
What to expect from 100% Design
Richard Rogers in conversation and Zaha Hadid's reinvention of shopping among this year's highlights
Martin Parr wants you to shoot a funeral
As part of The Photographers' Gallery Mass Observation exhibition, Parr has issued 'Directive 2'
Wild Artist Olek crochets steam locomotive
The train arriving in Lodz is called Deadly Romance "because it almost killed me!" says the artist
Edmund de Waal debuts at Gagosian next month
The British ceramicist brings a poetry-themed show of pots and vitrines to Gagosian's Madison Avenue gallery
You can zoom in 25 kilometres on this photo
The photos in Jeffrey Martin's 360 Cities series are created from up to 40,000 images digitally stitched together
Dolce & Gabbana's Fellini film comes to London
The 2012 restoration of Fellini's Satyricon is on at The Curzon, courtesy of the A Nos Amours collective
Yayoi Kusama top-selling living female artist
Bloomberg calculates the Japanese artist has sold 2290 lots since 1985, generating $127.7m in sales
LEGO invites you to ‘release your inner architect’
Sou Fujimoto, MAD and SOM among big names contributing to 272-page book in new Architecture Studio set
Foster + Partners rework Cathay Pacific
Tasteful styling and hard-core product design combine in the practice's first commercial aircraft design
Hamburg sorting office reinvented as hip hotel
Boasting hangover breakfasts and a stage 'for impromptu jams' Superbude II looks like fun (just not that relaxing)
Heaven for Dieter Rams fans
A new website run by Dieter Rams aficionados helps you find any classic piece from the Braun design guru
What Marina Abramović will offer you for $10,000
For backers willing to pledge big bucks to the performance artist's forthcoming institute, Marina has two choices
Ai Weiwei curates rudely-titled Chinese art show
F*** OFF 2 is the sequel to the Shanghai show he staged in China in 2000
Critics love Peter Doig's Edinburgh show
The press unites in praise of painter's exhibition at The Scottish National Gallery, the first in the city of his birth
Australian train station attracts fierce competition
Competition to redesign Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station attracts entries from Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw, two local architects and some Colombian graduates. But who will win?
Galaxy Soho accused of damaging 'old Beijing'
Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center chastises RIBA for rewarding Zaha Hadid's 2012 creation
Is this really Warhol's first piece of pop art?
A British man is trying to sell this drawing, which he claims is the work of an eleven-year-old Andy Warhol
Marina Abramovic's Reddit highlights
According to her online interview, the performance artist is not a vampire and she likes Antony and The Johnsons
The Shanghai skyscraper that makes you look twice
UNStudio says its SOHO Hailun Plaza will change appearance depending on the time of day and your viewpoint
Jakob+MacFarlane's illuminating extension
The Parisian practice creates a suitably impressive addition to France's repository for radical architecture
Toyo Ito and Shigeru Ban's designs for dogs
New show unveils “an extremely sincere collection of architecture” for design-conscious domestic animals
John Pawson strips back the Baroque
The St Moritz church in Augsburg, Bavaria goes minimalist, thanks to the work of Britain's architectural master
Is Hirst in a pickle here?
Jonathan Yeo says in his Hirst portrait, it is unclear whether Hirst is preparing a work, or being preserved himself
Zaha Hadid's Serpentine gallery to open next month
The Serpentine Sackler Gallery will be the Pritzker Laureate's first permanent structure in central London
Introducing Steve McCurry Untold
Phaidon publisher Amanda Renshaw introduces Steve McCurry Untold, a book that looks at the stories and circumstances behind the photos that made the Magnum photographer famous
If Moore had taught Bacon to sculpt
A recent article reveals that the great 20th century painter asked his sculptural counterpart for lessons
Jean Nouvel wins the National Art Museum of China
The French Pritzker laureate beat Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid to design China's leading art contemporary space
Letters from Edward Hopper's 'rigid woman'
A current exhibition uses a cache of love letters to offer fresh insight into the work of the great American painter
Shigeru Ban's Parisian music island
Following on from Ando and Nouvel plans, will Ban's design for Ile Seguin in Paris finally break ground?
So where do you take Ferran Adrià for dinner?
Howard Chua-Eoan, former TIME magazine news director, on the NYC spots he's booked for the elBulli supremo
How a Phaidon book inspired Mad Men's titles
A tiny illustration in our graphic-design title A Smile in the Mind got Mad Men director Steve Fuller thinking
Put the world's best architecture in your pocket
New Architecture Travel Guide brings world's greatest new buildings to your touchscreen
Shepard Fairey gets on the LA Art Fund bus
The renowned graffiti artist consults with school kids to fashion his campaign for public arts education
