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This season, the trendiest books will be baring it all with new "in" thing in book design: forgoing the jacket and printing the art straight on to a hard-back cover. Less is more.

Fashion in fiction: jacket-less books

This season, the trendiest books will be baring it all with new "in" thing in book design: forgoing the jacket and printing the art straight on to a hard-back cover. Less is more.

The Ikea store in Beijing is bustling. But not with customer's buying cheap Swedish furniture, but with families enjoying a nap on Ikea mattresses, eating Swedish meatballs and taking their graduation photos.

China loves the allen key

The Ikea store in Beijing is bustling. But not with customer's buying cheap Swedish furniture, but with families enjoying a nap on Ikea mattresses, eating Swedish meatballs and taking their graduation photos.

The humble and iconic Times New Roman typeface has a complex and controversial history, with debate over its origins still raging today.

The turbulent history of Times New Roman

The humble and iconic Times New Roman typeface has a complex and controversial history, with debate over its origins still raging today.

Culture mulcher <b>WH Chong</b> tackles a hoary old argument, photography versus painting, with a hands-on approach: photographing then painting Queensland's Carnarvon Gorge.

Can a landscape painting beat a landscape photo?

Culture mulcher WH Chong tackles a hoary old argument, photography versus painting, with a hands-on approach: photographing then painting Queensland's Carnarvon Gorge.

Designers go to great effort to create the perfect, "worn-in" t-shirt -- with the price tag to match. But the once humble garment is now more than just fashion, says <b>Hugo Lindgren</b>: it's a canvas.

The evolution of the t-shirt

Designers go to great effort to create the perfect, "worn-in" t-shirt -- with the price tag to match. But the once humble garment is now more than just fashion, says Hugo Lindgren: it's a canvas.

A great collection of photos of 20th-century London and its inhabitants from a new exhibition at the at the Getty Images Gallery.

PHOTO GALLERY: London through a lens

A great collection of photos of 20th-century London and its inhabitants from a new exhibition at the at the Getty Images Gallery.

There is nothing in the world quite like the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), with an uneasy coexistence between the commercial art world and Indigenous cultural imperatives, writes <b>Henry F. Skerritt</b>.

Aboriginal art reaches a crossroads under the stars in Darwin

There is nothing in the world quite like the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), with an uneasy coexistence between the commercial art world and Indigenous cultural imperatives, writes Henry F. Skerritt.

The internet has made Andy Warhol's famous prediction that "In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" a reality. So what would the pop artist himself make of the web today? Would he be blogging? Tweeting? Digg-ing? Former friends share their opinions.

What would Warhol think of the Web?

The internet has made Andy Warhol's famous prediction that "In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" a reality. So what would the pop artist himself make of the web today? Would he be blogging? Tweeting? Digg-ing? Former friends share their opinions.

Sick of your garage door looking like a garage door? No? Well,  then you miss out on these photorealistic tarps. Ridiculous, but who doesn't want an F-18 fighter jet in their garage?

Style your garage: keeping up with the Joneses

Sick of your garage door looking like a garage door? No? Well, then you miss out on these photorealistic tarps. Ridiculous, but who doesn't want an F-18 fighter jet in their garage?

A haunting gallery of "mirrored" mug shot from American police archives captures criminal suspects in a new perspective.

GALLERY: The art of the mug shot

A haunting gallery of "mirrored" mug shot from American police archives captures criminal suspects in a new perspective.