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Greek architects KLab Architecture have completed an extension to a bar in Athens with a facade clad in rusted steel. (more…)

Back in August, blogger-turned-author Tim Ferriss found himself the subject of some controversy when he announced a design contest for readers to come up with a cover for his new book. There were the usual anger over not using a professional designer and even some speculation that Ferriss had simply fanned the flames of the “no spec” debate in order to generate publicity. Now we have another high profile author, but one who seems to have generally slipped under the radar. Rick Warren, famous pastor and the writer behind The Purpose Driven Life, quickly launched a design-the-cover-for-my-new-book contest late last week via the crowdsourcing design site 99designs, offering $3000 for the winner. The window was incredibly short, just three days and twenty hours, shutting down right at midnight on the 19th. In that time, it had generated more than 2900 entries by 850 designers and Warren had upped the winning fee to $5000. We’re staying out of it, as we’re sure the spec crowd will be plenty upset, given that implication behind all of this is that Warren and his group seem to believe that good, solid design can be had for dirt cheap, it can also be created on the super quick.

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As promised, we have started to put together films of the sessions at our Click Singapore conference. The first two are from a panel discussion on the difficulties of selling digital work

To see both films, go to the CRTV section of the website, here

Click is our international conference on digital advertising and creativity. This year, we will be running Click in Singapore, New York and London.

Click New York is on October 1 where speakers include Rob Reilly of Crispin Porter, Khoi Vinh, design director of the New York Times online, Vincent Morisset of AATOAA and Jason Zada of Tool. The day will be chaired by Michael Lebowitz of Big Spaceship. For full programme and ticket details, please go here

Click London will be on November 12 and will be chaired by Johan and Måns Tesch with speakers including 42 Entertainment, Teenage Engineering and Sony Music. More details here