The new album by Swedish duo Niki And The Dove is out today. The album’s ethereal mix of electro-pop, atmospheric layering and references to magic is echoed perfectly in the dreamscape imagery we have created for the campaign. To see more of the work Big Active Design has made for the project please click here.

Released this week is the boxset of Toro Y Moi’s demo work, with artwork by Will Sweeney.

A collection of Chaz Bundick’s (Toro Y Moi) disparate and experimental early work, Will responded by ‘trying something completely abstract’ using paint markers and Rotring technical pens. He goes on to explain that ‘the songs titles brought to mind a sense of nostalgia and I wanted to create a series of dream-like images, I thought of them as almost like scientific illustrations of emotions or memories’.

You can see the box cover above. Click through to see the rest of the 7″ covers.

Today sees the opening of THIS IS NOW, an exhibition of fifteen of the world’s leading designers, illustrators and motion graphics artists working today. Curated by Norwegian studio Oh Yeah, the exhibition features Big Active’s Jasper Goodall and Jesse Auersalo, whose contributions can be seen above. More details here.

This week’s edition of Music Week has a special feature on the rude health of the classic vinyl record in terms of music sales. Big Active’s Gerard Saint was available for comment. You can read the full interview here.

Siggi Eggertsson has won an open competition to design the poster for this year’s Reykjavík Arts Festival, which takes place in the Icelandic capital this May. The poster incorporates the festival logo at its centre and will be used to promote the annual festival, which features performances from Bryan Ferry and Yann Tiersen. The above image is of the selected artwork before the addition of the festival logo.

Check out the cover that Adrian created for a recent issue of Time Out London, for their traditional spring Paris special.

Michael Kiwanuka’s debut album ‘Home Again’ is out now. The record was produced by Paul Butler of the Bees, features photography by Benjamin Etridge and sleeve design by Markus Karlsson and Gerard Saint at Big Active. As we reported last month Michael was the winner of this year’s BBC Sound of Poll – much deserved given his undeniable talent. We hope that such an early expectation of success will not distract from the acclaim that this album truly deserves. We love this record. Do yourself a favour – go and buy it.

Jasper has been working on a short film and has shared a small segment with us. It’s a study of five mysterious deities who fade in and out of view, accompanied by an eerie soundtrack. More to come soon.

For its most recent installment, Klaus Haapaniemi’s temporary restaurant, Hel Yes!, has relocated to Stockholm. Conceived as a culinary cultural evening, the event combines gastronomy, design and dance, and follows on from previous sold out gatherings in London and Helsinki. The Stockholm leg sees the Helsinki Dance Company and choreographer Kenneth Kvarnström, as well as artist Maria Duncker’s Bone Orchestra all brought together in the surroundings of Klaus’s tapestry work and design direction. You can find the Hel Yes! website here.

For their Spring/Summer 2012 kidswear collection, clothing label Lacoste invited Geneviève Gauckler to take on their classic crocodile logo. In response, she has created six new crazy crocodile characters in playful scenes from badminton to fancy-dress. The least scary crocodiles you will ever see, they are fun, absurd, and totally Geneviève. See the rest of the tees here.