Photograph of eighteen black ink fountain pen line drawings on white A4 paper

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Photograph of a number of black ink fountain pen line drawings on A4 paper

Photograph of a number of black ink fountain pen line drawings on A4 paper

Recent doodles 🖋️

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists sick of the pressure to promote on social media From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...

Very much this

Colour swatches of the Panton chair collection, from orange to violet to turquoise

I'll have one of each

Panton Chair Limited Edition 2026 Vote for your favourite Panton Chair colour. This limited edition is based on the palette of Panton's legendary interior landscapes and his experimental approach to colour. The most popular colours wi...

Bold orange, obviously 🧡

‘Even more beautiful than I imagined’: the nifty Japanese printing gadget uniting artists worldwide It’s fast, affordable and its colours are as vivid as screenprints. Designer and risograph devotee Gabriella Marcella talks about founding Riso Club, connecting device users from New York, London, Dam...

Riso 🖤

One of our favourite drawers - the one with the 50 year-old hot cross bun next to the lucky rabbit's foot! According to our records, the bun was made on 16 April 1976 by a former curator (hence the exact dates) but wasn't donated to the Museum until 10 May 1981. Definitely past its sell-by date!

Painting of Jesus and the apostles sitting around a u-shaped table, with the naked feet of the apostles joining up at the centre

Stanley Spencer - The Last Supper, 1920 🦶

Six Subversive Gems From Cinema’s Golden Era of Trash As a new season at BFI gets underway, we uncover the bad-taste classics that still have the power to shock and delight

Vive le cinéma!

Mink Stole and Peaches Christ talk trash, collaboration and community: “Divine eating the dog poop was way past the tolerance level of most people” Longtime John Waters collaborator Mink Stole and cult drag icon Peaches Christ reflect on their unlikely creative partnership, the radical legacy of ‘trash cinema’, and how their latest show celebrate...

Good read

The only ethical way is not to use them. But that’s too inconvenient, isn’t it?

Love & Fury: how poster artists responded to the Aids crisis – in pictures A new exhibition at New York’s Poster House explores how graphic design helped to define the city’s response to Aids from the late 1970s to the 2000s.

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*led obvs 🙄

Hello to my new followers that have found me via my old Sonic artwork on Twitter! Inspired by screenshots before the game was released, it even lead to my first illustration freelance work while I was at university. Here's another piece I did for the launch of Sonic 2 (C&VG Issue 132, November 1992)

Thanks Ben! I've fond memories of making this artwork, which I created based on preview screenshots before the game was released. Good times!

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

Good stuff

Photo of a page from the book Type Speaks showing a 5x5 square illustrative type design with the words SUPER BONUS EXTRA MAGIC POWER in decorative letters

5x5 square illustrative type design with the words SUPER BONUS EXTRA MAGIC POWER in decorative letters, predominantly yellow and orange with purple and cyan details on a dark purple background

Five years later, and I've just stumbled upon an old type design of mine in Type Speaks by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson

Thanks Chris!

Digital illustration: a collection of elements such as stars, skateboards, rollerskates, lollipops, mouths / lips, sunscapes, etc on a dark background in warm nostalgic colours

Summer skater vibes, 2017

Some unused concepts from my work for the Tommy Hilfiger spring runway show at Venice Beach, LA

Cafes in South West London in the mid-1970s - Flashbak In the mid-1970s, Grenville Horner was out and about in south-west London taking pictures of the local cafes

Love a good caff. Big shout-out to the Hygienic Bakery

Post by @c86 · 30 images 💬 0  🔁 4  ❤️ 14 · Вечір на Івана Купала | Vechir na Ivana Kupala | Yuri Illienko | 1968

More pics here

Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala (1968) Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavr...

I grabbed it from here, which is the best I've seen so far: rarefilmm.com/2025/10/vech...

Oh my, incredible stuff 🔥

Screencap: A small thatched cottage in grassland with the heads of a number of people looking out through the roof

Screencap: A view of a small village showing a handful of thatched buildings, one with a dominating high roof

Screencap: Green landscape of rocky hills with a windmill atop the horizon

Screencap: A shallow grassy hillside dotted with ten small thatched cottages

Landscapes

Screencap: A man playing a whistle, sat on the back of a carriage surrounded by children and cages

Screencap: A couple floating horizontally in front of an interior window surrounded by a painted folk art floral decoration, a table and sacks

Screencap: A woman in mourning is held upright in front of a smoke damaged wall and window through which a number of faces look through

Screencap: A decorative folk art house wall, painted with cockerels and flowers. A woman sits in the open doorway facing a pastoral landscape

Vechir na Ivana Kupala |
Yuri Illienko | 1968

Probably one of the most beautiful films I'll watch this year

‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators

Synth porn

Link to report: theaoi.com/wp-content/u...

Brave New World? New report warns generative AI is already costing creators their livelihoods Built on evidence from over 10,000 creators, the move lays bare the real-world damage generative AI is already doing to creative careers, and the fight for fairness is only just beginning. The Ass...

Resist! Also, aside from all the ethical reasons to boycott gen-AI, OpenAI's president is Trump's largest donor...

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead - A Film By Derek Jarman (Official Music Video) YouTube video by The Smiths

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Illustrative type design showing the words "understand that we are you" in yellow and red, surrounded by cloud-like decorative elements and stars coloured red, green and purple

"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking" - Derek Jarman, BOTD 31 January 1942