Here’s a short preview of Jody Barton’s upcoming book to be published by Nieves on September 3rd.

The cover of the 234th issue of Form magazine features the work of Mat Maitland.

Here’s a new Parra design for Young In Prison, a Dutch charity which aims to help imprisoned kids in developing countries. The T-shirt design and Logo reads ‘Creativity Is Freedom’ in Dutch.

Sanna Annukka has just collaborated with British Vogue producing a t-shirt and tote bag design for “Fashion Night Out”, their global celebration of all things shopping.

If you’re in Stockholm this Saturday 21st August, get yourself down to Jim Stoten and Tom Richards’ Heavy Pencil night.

Here’s Parra’s most recent collaborative project. This time he’s teamed up with Converse and Red, raising awareness for the fight on Aids in Africa. Further sample images are here.

London based artist Will Sweeney and San Francisco’s Matt Furie are collaborating on a series of images of portals, doorways and entrances to new worlds for “The Doorz”, an upcoming show at DreamBagsJaguarShoes evoking the imagery of surreal children’s books, lost animations and hyper real alien landscapes. Private View: 17th August, 2010. 7pm till late.

Here’s a peek into the sketchbook of Letman aka Job Wouters.

Here are some images taken from Jesse Auersalo’s recent “Near Death Experience” show and lecture at Public/Image.3D gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo. You can see more on their site.

The summer edition of Eye magazine focuses entirely on design for music – from the first sleeve graphics by Alex Steinweiss to the performance art of Laurie Anderson. The special issue also features an extensive profile on the work of Big Active and interview with creative director Gerard Saint – discussing the challenges of packaging music for the digital age – and why in his opinion design will always have a compelling role to play in making music visible. Eye #76 is out now.