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The latest items to join our list of eBay auctions being sold to raise money for Comic Relief include a Depeche Mode box set, prints from Monocle, James Jarvis and Rob Flowers and a special edition Nintendo DSi

All this week we are raising funds for Comic Relief by auctioning design-related items. New today are the following:

A deluxe box set of Depeche Mode’s 2009 album, Sounds Of The Universe

The box contains:

2 piece custom made box with foil blocking.

2 x 84 page hardback books:
The first featuring the lyrics to all the songs from the Sounds Of The Universe sessions accompanied by exclusive photography by Anton Corbijn.
The second featuring exclusive and candid studio photography by Daniel Miller, Ben Hillier, Luke Smith and Ferg Peterkin.

2 exclusive enamel badges

1 poster

5 artcards, sealed in a collectors envelope
(seal broken, as per image below)
1 certificate of authenticity

Label: Mute

Bid for it here:

Courtesy of Nintendo, a DSi Pokemon Black and White limited edition bundle with game. Bid for it here

A beautiful print by Japanese illustrator Satoshi Hashimoto courtesy of the good people at Monocle.

Description: Improve your immediate environment with Monocle‘s complete community as seen on page 145 of Monocle’s issue 15. The illustration shows how to create a borough that’s green, clean, and well-connected – as envisioned by the urbanist Alejandro Gutierrez.

Printed A2 size on Monocle magazine’s matt paper, it is in four colours with gold-foil detailing. This is the first in a collection of Monocle prints and is now sold out. Unframed – print only. Bid on it here.

Illustrator Spencer Wilson has kindly donated one of his 190mm x 280mm Space Cowboy prints. Space Cowboy is a letterpress planographic print on 300gsm somerset hot press printing paper – printed in three colours: dark blue, red and silver. Limited to an edition of 40. Bid on it here

They look like sticker packs, but actually we have three A3 size digital prints by artist Rob Flowers, packaged in one-off packaging, the likes of which Mr Flowers won’t be making again…

The one on the left is titled Ice Cream, the middle one is the Money Parade and the one on the right is titled Krampus and is Flowers’ interpretation of the anti-Saint Nicholas from Germanic folklore. We’re auctioning them as one lot on eBay here.

And finally (but there will be more to come soon)

From James Jarvis for (and dontaed by) Art & Sole (thanks Nathan), a stamped and signed artist proof of Sole Inspector, screenprinted on 175gsm Colourplan stock, 700mm x 500mm. Bid on it here

Fresh from illustrating the story of Life of Pi as part of World Book Night, Essex-based design and illustration duo Lauren Baker and Phil Howell, aka The Hidden Dingbat Collective, are taking live drawing to an extreme this Red Nose Day.

With pens and pencils in hands tomorrow evening, they will be ‘transcribing’ the entire Comic Relief event as it happens, live at 15 Queen Street, Colchester’s creative hub. All this will be streamed using Kinura, with the pair’s pal, Jason Cobb, reporting via Twitter.

Baker and Howell will be auctioning off the finished work, after attempting to get as many of the celebrities taking part in the programme as possible to sign it.

More details are available on their blog.

Here’s our first post about what CR’s readers have been doing to raise money for Comic Relief. We’re sure loads more of you are doing something funny for money too, and we want to hear about it, so we can feature your fundraising on the blog. Let us know what you’re up to by leaving a comment or emailing neil.ayres@centaur.co.uk.

First up, over at the University of Wales, Interactive Media student Gary Smith has created what he describes as a Chaos Engine (shown below), set to track the movements of anything red. He’s attached a red nose to it, and records the movements of this (when it’s physically swung by someone) to generate data visualisations (there’s one shown above). Smith is then selling these as prints, with proceeds going to Comic Relief.

Nick Hilditch has been randomly illustrating unsuspecting people’s tweets for the past year. To celebrate hitting the anniversary of irkafirka, as the process is known (the name means ‘doodle’ in Hungarian), he and partner-in-crime Chris Bell decided to ask for donations to Comic Relief for what they termed ‘#firknoseday’. Anyone on Twitter donating money would be added to a ‘watchlist’, and be in with the chance of having a tweet illustrated. The pair asked followers to spread the word by tweeting this:

“I want a good firking on Friday 11th March, so I sponsored @irkafirka http://bit.ly/GoodFirk #FirkNoseDay”

With the resulting illustrations looking something like this:

As indicated above, the original #FirkNoseDay was due to take place solely on Friday 11 March (the anniversary of irkafirka), but due to the level of response and the potential of more money to be raised, #FirkNoseDay has turned into #FirkNoseWeek, with Hilditch and Bell extending the offering through to Red Nose Day itself.

Other CR readers helping raise money include Matt Glen, who is making and selling badges (above). The Scottish Words site, a website that illustrates Scottish words, is doing its bit by lending this week’s cartoons a Comic Relief theme and asking for donations in return. And Helen and Lori, proprietors of Tenderfoot Gifts, are handing over the proceeds of their monster-themed kids’ workshops.

Unloveable Steve is running an egalitarian sweepstake in response to #twitrelief. Entry’s a reasonable £1, and the winner will win a follow from Steve, which he promises to fulfil even in the unfortunate accident of his own death. Staying with Twit Relief, for those with a bigger budget, this lady will cut short her hitchhiking trip to Switzerland to not only follow you on Twitter, but also follow you around a London supermarket of your choice.

Remember, let us know what you’re up to for Red Nose Day as we want to feature as many fundraising efforts by our readers as we can this week.

And if you’re interested in bidding on any of the items we’re auctioning, here’s a reminder of what we’ve got on offer so far:

Build’s Moon posters: Day and Night

Paul Davis portrait

James Jarvis vinyl toy

Headphones? Gravestone? Musical note, or open door? Noma Bar brings his clever double take imagery to the latest editions of Don DeLillo’s work from Picador…

The new covers were art directed by It’s Nice That who approached Bar, represented by Dutch Uncle, to work with them on the project.

“It seemed obvious that the subtlety and craft in Noma’s work was the perfect vehicle to try and communicate DeLillo’s intricate and often sinister subjects,” they write on the Picador blog. “We had interviewed Noma for a previous issue of our publication and were waiting for the right project to work with him on, and the DeLillo re-issues could not have fit more perfectly.”

“My challenge was to create a range of ten books by Don DeLillo, a summary of more than 30 years of his writing,” Noma Bar explains. “After a long process that involved reading, researching and sketching, I started to pull out some of the main elements of each story and tried to understand how Don DeLillo tailored them together. The result is a bold image for each cover that looks conventional at first, but at second glimpse reveals the whole story.”

The new editions are out now. See picador.com.

I’ve raided my loft for this James Jarvis World of Pain Policeman figure, the next item for sale in our week of fundraising for Comic Relief.

All this week we are auctioning stuff in aid of Comic Relief. I’ve given up my much-loved Policeman, still in his original packaging and given to me by the man Jarvis himself.

It’s available to bid on now on ebay here. 90% of the sale price goes to Comic Relief. If there’s anything else left over after costs that will go to them too.