Design
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From Game of Thrones-inspired castle estates to spiralling pink robo-slides, this year’s graduate architecture shows offer a window to escapist fantasy lands
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Merseyside comes alive with art and Antony Gormley laments the ‘termites’ nests’ that are today’s cityscapes. Plus all the week’s other art happenings all in your weekly art dispatch
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Illustrator Simon Smith finds cause for hope in artist’s celebration of everyday Britain at a private view of Wakefield show
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David Hockney | Jorge Otero-Pailos | Liverpool Biennial | David Bomberg | Etel Adnan
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Philip Castle’s airbrushed art features on album covers for David Bowie and Pulp but his lurid imagery for A Clockwork Orange remains his most infamous work – he remembers his friendship with the director
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None of us really know what is to come. How will our lives transform and will robots be involved? Neill Cameron asks us to imagine – the possibilities are endless!
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Canada is often mistaken for a cultural monolith, full of hosers in toques clutching double-doubles. The reality, of course, is quite the reverse – so here’s a tongue-in-cheek guide to the different characters of its cities
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A step-by-step guide to drawing the massive diplodocus in the main hall of London’s Natural History Museum from James Francis Wilkins. Don’t forget to enter the Dippy The Dinosaur drawing comp if you like what you end up with!
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Wouldn’t it be nice if everything you saw had a face so you could find out once and for all what your dinner was thinking while you ate it and if your chair was happy that you’d sat in it? Morag Hood, author and illustrator of Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea, shows you how!
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With 5,000 tents abandoned at Glastonbury last year, Comp-a-Tent and KartTent aim to offer more eco-friendly throw-away alternatives
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Ever wanted to draw a hiccuping puppy? Illustrator Holly Sterling shows you how
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From slapstick to parody to toilet humour, Elys Dolan offers a rib-tickling guide to comedy in children’s picture books
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Illustrator Alex T Smith takes us on a fascinating tour of Enid Blyton book cover art from the 1940s to the present day
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South Kilburn estate review – homes that are streets ahead