24 players, 51 games, 1 winner. The final of the Linney Design World Cup took place in the hallowed turf of the kitchen with a packed audience. Luke Tonge and Phil Thurlby came through the tournament to face each other in the final. Who won? How many goals were scored? Did anyone get injured? Find out by clicking the short video above… credit to Richard Chester for organising the event and Steve Hepper for putting the video together. Let battle commence!

New England home shirt designed by Peter Saville. It’s certainly minimal, the multicoloured crosses being “evocative of the basting stitches synonymous with bespoke tailoring” according to Saville. Either that or it makes you look like you have interesting dandruff… Thoughts anyone?

David McCandless shows how design can make sense out of the overwhelming amount of information in today’s world. He turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.

Thanks to everyone that was involved and attended the last Creative Forum – the next one will be announced very soon, in the meantime here are some images from the event.

Here at Linney, we have an installation space that we’ve used in the past to create interesting talking points, linked to the work we do for our clients. Recently, we put one together for Olympus based on their digital voice recorders. As well as a brief history of recording devices, from the Magnetophon to the Minidisc, we also wanted to show the capacity of digital as opposed to analogue recording. An Olympus DS-5000 can hold almost 80 hours of audio, the equivalent of 80 micro cassettes which we used to create this sculpture. For more information about the DS-5000 click here.

I’ve not seen much on the design blogs or twitter about the appearance of the 3 main election manifestos – yet this has been covered in some detail on national radio. Interesting to see the various approaches of the parties, the similarities and differences in layout and branding – and what effect the visual style has when reading/viewing the documents. I’m annoyed that I find myself warming to the Tories purely because they bothered to include some illustrations – and I don’t even know how to react to Labours animated/pdf combo! Check them out for yourself and let us know what you think! LABOUR / CONSERVATORY / LIBERAL DEMOCRATS also for those of a political persuasion don’t forget its the ultimate visual representation of the parties on ITV tonight at 8:30… more political based postings to come.

The new Nintendo DS 3D machine, available later this year. Proof that we are all now living in the future… this looks amazing.

Last month’s Pecha Kucha presentations are now online to view at your pleasure. To view them all click here.

To coincide with it’s Kick-Ass edition, Little White Lies have just announced the winners of it’s latest creative brief competition – to transform a favourite film into a six panel comic strip. The winner was David Rigby, who cast an ironic eye over the nuances of the film Zombieland although I think that Total Recall by Matt Boyce and The Wicker Man by Hurk (excerpt shown above) are great. See all the winners here.

While browsing my local Mothercare store at the weekend I was pleased to see the car-seat safety icons I recently designed. The set comprised of 12 icons all of which featured in-store and will hopefully soon make their way into the next catalogue.