Ian Dury studied at the RCA in the early sixties, taught art at Canterbury College before forming his oddball Kilburn and the High Roads, and then Blockheads. Dury who downplayed his art, as it happens, was no slouch in the visual department. Ian’s daughter Jemima Dury, former associate Kosmo Vinyl and former Stiff Records art director, Jules Balme have joined forces to present an exhibition of Ian Dury’s artwork from 1961 to 1972. We're certainly curious ourselves.
For about 12 years, starting in 1903, the Tour De France route remained unchanged. It formed a nearly perfect outline of France, save for a small indentation in the north west corner. The following 80 or so races featured more dramatic variations, including portions of the route which ranged outside of France altogether. This year's race started in Corsica.
Designer Sam Potts dug through race map archives to design a poster depicting all 100 routes, with a list of the top three riders of each year. While cycling fans might be attracted to the simplicity of just the race's outline in "Races" version, geography buffs will want to opt for the second "Cities" version of the print, which includes the name of every city the tour passes through.
Congratulations Chris Froome, the poster for the 2013 race is avilable for purchase. 
40 is the new 20. Patagonia is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a fall collection consisting of the the outfitter’s most iconic pieces reinterpreted. Dubbed the Legacy collection, the 10-piece capsule is set to release in September and features some clean, sharp pieces that pay homage to founder Yvon Chouinard’s function over fashion design philosophy.
Michael Williams over at ACL shared a few side-by-side comparisons of select items with the original archival pieces from which they were based. Standouts include the All-Wear Down Jacket, Diamond Quilt Snap-T Pullover and the Summit Pack.
View the complete lookbook at Patagonia.com.
We look at dozens of online portfolios every day, so we can say with confidence that the mistakes illustrated in Alex Cornell's Worst Portfolio Ever project are worth avoiding. His critiques range from skipping a self-indulgent and vague bio paragraph, to eagerly leading visitors away from your work to endless social media channels. The project is sarcastic, but the accompanying blog entry on his companion site, is an essential read for any "23 year old designer/thinker living and making in sunny San Francisco" with a website. 
The new poster campaign by Oliver Uberti for 826Michigan, McSweeney's nonprofit tutoring center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, taps into similar rhetoric and imagery to what we've seen from the PSA posters from subway systems in Japan, and staycation posters from wartime England. This time, instead of warning citizens about drinking too much, and not taking vacations, the posters tout the kid-friendly theme of robot revolution and the center's alias as Liberty Street Robot Supply and Repair.
One can't utter the words "midcentury modern American furniture" without picturing that Herman Miller logo and iconic design pieces by Nelson and Eames. But, the American design house has actually been around over a century. Dutch agency Part of a Bigger Plan has made videos for the likes of Mr. Porter and Louis Vuitton and was tasked with covering Herman Miller's history in an anniversary video to hype the launch of the WHY platform. Cleverly, it packs 108 years of design history into just 108 seconds.
Even the most efficient LED bike lights eventually require a new set of watch batteries. This week, the bicycle accessory company Bookman released the first USB-rechargeable version of its minimal, single LED bike light to the relief of night cyclists worldwide. The USB model costs an extra €20, but when you consider the shopping time plugging a light into your laptop for a few hours versus tracking down CR2032 batteries in drug stores, they're not a bad deal.
The lights come in pairs of two in four colors, each one perfect for a new Martone. 
Ghostly International can now add sunglasses to its inventory of records, clothing, and art prints. The multidisciplinary art label recently released a pair of sunglasses with Warby Parker, called the Curtis, which promptly sold out in Revolver Black, but is still available in Ghostly Grey. Those who did manage to get a pair were also rewarded with a one month of Ghostly's drip.fm subscription service. Check out a few images of the glasses below, which Warby Parker describes as, "a little bit moody and a little bit mysterious–the eyewear equivalent of a secret handshake."
The Curtis in Ghostly Grey is $95 at the Ghostly Store.
Photographer Leigh Bancroft went deep into the backwoods waterways of Alabama to shoot the SS13 lookbook for Lyonstate, highlighting the store's in-house collection of shirts, shorts and pants. Designed in-house by Lyonstate's founders, and crafted entirely in the USA, the collection is big on rugged chambrays, breathable ginghams and buttery sanded canvases.
Bronia Stewart's "Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed" photo series manages to convey ideas about camaraderie, friendship, and ambition in the context of the otherwise unsavory world of the phone sex industry. Her subjects, who work in various capacities at the London-based adult entertainment service Babestation, include both the male producers and the female performers.
At It's Nice That, Maisie Skidmore sees a grim duality of the Babestation workplace: the friendship between the male producers and the female actresses is professional and unthreatening, yet the context reminds us "how the media encourages the sexualization of women, in order to get ahead in a male-dominated work environment."
See more from the series at The Photographers' Gallery.
All images by Bronia Stewart. Babe Station, 2012. Hand printed C-type Archival print © Bronia Stewart. Courtesy of the artist.