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David Hockney’s exclusive, and unique, take on Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony.

The beginning of a two-week series of artworks exclusively created in response to the London 2012 Olympics for the Guardian

Sarah Morris’s Big Ben (2012) at Gloucester Road tube station was developed from this poster that she designed for the London 2012 Paralympics. Photograph: London 2012/PA

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I don’t paint what I see but what I saw’: detail from Edvard Munch’s The Sick Child, 1907 version. Photograph: Tate - where a new exhibition has opened

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Friday’s g2 cover

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Photograph: Twitter

Twitter has unveiled a new logo:

Unlike its feather-headed predecessor, the updated logo is crafted purely from three sets of overlapping circles, according to Twitter, and will be the universally recognised symbol of the fledgling social network from now on.

But the new logo comes with a rather stringent set of guidelines for use…

Photograph: Thomas Poulsom

Birds made from Lego? Why not.

Lego-enthusiast, avian-admirer and professional tree surgeon Thomas Poulsom has taken inspiration from birds to create this brilliant series of (almost) life-size Lego models. He hopes to persuade the toy company to make his birds into official Lego kits - vote for him at lego.cuusoo.com

Photograph: PR

Mr T towel (there’s more where that came from…)

Photograph: happyplace.com

Ahead of the Guardian Weekend magazine gay issue, out 21 April, we pay tribute to the best gay rights protesting placards - you can see more on artanddesign.tumblr.com