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BMW will show off a series of sound works presented during the inaugural programme for Frieze New York in May. Frieze Sounds will feature three audio works from commissioned artists Martin Creed, Rick Moody and Frances Stark. For Frieze Sounds, Creed will compose a short song that doubles as a hypnotic lullaby. Moody will produce a sound version of The Undependable Global Positioning System, a literary composition that will function as an ‘anti-destination device’.

Data analysis and visualisation have become indispensable business tools, but in the hands of digital artists, data is undergoing a metamorphosis – from a unit of information into a fascinating, beautiful, and expressive medium, writes Aaron Koblin, head of Google’s Data Arts Team, in the latest Think Quarterly: Creativity, from Google.

Ikea dropped the flat pack and went the Banksy route for last week’s Milan Design Week. With the tagline ‘People make design come to life’ the furniture brand gave the city streets its take on the girl with the balloon and that dog, in true stencil style.

A warm welcome to Upon Paper magazine, which professes not be a magazine but has been created out of an intense passion for paper. It’s a biannual and comes in out an extra-large format – 49 x 69cm/19 x 27 inches – is curated like an art portfolio, and each issue features a leitmotif linking an ensemble of artists, designers and creatives from all fields, writes Steve Mullins.

MTV, MoMA PS1 and contemporary art organisation Creative Time have rolled out Art Breaks, a series of 10 original video art pieces from emerging artists, writes Steve Mullins. The videos debuted yesterday on MTV, MTV.com, MTV’s Facebook page and on a dedicated Tumblr page.

If you want to know how things work over at Channel 4, throw away that organigram and turn instead to illustrator Jack Hudson who was commissioned by the UK broadcaster to come up with two posters to show how the company functions.

Benetton is gearing up to link its flagship European stores in a brand ‘conversation’ using content from a series of arts and cultural events – kicking off at the Design Museum in London with the Colors Survival Guide – to reach shoppers in London, Milan, Barcelona and Paris.

The ‘Icon Stores’ will host the projection of videos and artistic animations about the Colors London exhibition on the Benetton Live Windows, a network of large high-definition video walls, which transform traditional store windows into high-tech multimedia screens.

Ted Baker has joined forces with a band of illustrators to launch Ted’s Drawing Room in its stores in the UK, Ireland and New York. Shoppers trying on items of apparel for the new collection can pose for an Instagram photo in one of the fashion retailer’s Exhibitionist booths.