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Ettore Sottsass’ Olivetti Valentine S in grey rather than the usual poppy red. Looks fantastic!

Peter Crnokrak’s ‘Everyone Ever In The World‘ is a visual representation of the number of people to have lived versus been killed in wars, massacres and genocide during the recorded history of humankind. Screen printed using gloss transparent ink on matte jet black plastic, the poster’s available to order from Counter-Objects.

Hand to Mouth – Cinelli’s Ram 2 Carbon handlebars get the Death Spray Custom treatment. Also worth checking out are the Custom Mercian Vigorelli and Figo Vengeance and El Capitane bikes.

Studio8 Design’s new identity for the Central School of Speech and Drama includes a bespoke typeface referencing old neon theatre signs.

The Safe Bike Rack from The Emotion Lab uses the humble padlock as inspiration.

Sunday saw the redesign and relaunch of The Observer. Reduced down to four sections, most of the changes can be seen in the hefty 56-page News Review and Observer Magazine. There’s some nice typographic and illustrative details but on the whole it comes across as a mish-mash of styles. As Coley Porter Bell suggest, perhaps its days are sadly numbered.

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No Gear – T-Shirt design by Baster using a photo of Bernard Thévenet and Eddy Merckx from the 1975 Tour De France. Available from Pristine.

Wallpaper* magazine’s limited edition cover archive, 2006 to 2010.

60 cycles – Jean-Claude Labrecque’s 1965 film which follows the Tour du Saint Laurent, a 1500-mile amateur cycling race in Québec. Fantastic period footage and a great soundtrack via the excellent National Film Board of Canada site.

A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services. An overview of the process and inspiration in putting together a ‘visual language‘ for the BBC Online.