CutUp
If CutUp had their way, they'd probably like to chop anonymous London up into pieces and feed it back to us in a multicoloured bag with some pertinent and no doubt rather ironic message on the front. Rather than shying away from the inhumanity of our city, like urban jesters they derive inspiration instead from its potential for playful disruption. Their bus-stop and billboard collage-hijackings are refreshingly provocative, whilst their disused-skip speaker-set toys easily with a host of utilitarian preconceptions. Drawing inspiration specifically from their Hackney Wick environs, their exhibition of new work emerges before your eyes this weekend in performances, animations and films, with the more transient outdoor installations surviving as persistent reminders of the human in the machine, of the games within the system.

Fabrica Features present YOU ARE HERE
Hot on the heels of their recent appearances in Paris and Rotterdam, You Are Here is an exhibition-cum-collection from Fabrica, the top secret, black-ops communication research arm of Benetton. Bridging disciplines at every possible turn, designers Natalie Ashman, Pia Knight and Michael Ciancio have turned the Beyond the Valley gallery into a blissfully quirky picnic scene laced with unexpectedly and elegantly re-rendered everyday objects. From a ceramic tape deck and fruit bowl complete with ceramic fruit to designer stationery and minimal teapots, the Fabrica collective once more demonstrates that the line between the practical and the aesthetic, between the gallery and the shop is hardly the most solid of distinctions.

50 years of Helvetica
This year celebrating its demi-centenary, the elegant, confident yet somehow almost demure Helvetica typeface has traveled everywhere: from NASA stationery and the first lunar landing, to the New York Subway signage and the ubiquitous if un-glamourous 'EXIT' that populates our safety-conscious age. For this exhibition at the Design Museum, Blank, Candy and Veer have commissioned 50 graphic artists and designers to explore one event for each year of the font's five decade lifetime, from Martin Luther King to the Olympics, taking Helvetica itself as inspiration. The pieces convey the font's timeless universality with a pleasant ease, with not even a hint of Comic Sans in the mix.