Skye Sherwin's A Good Look

Leif Podhajsky creates designs for leftfield labels including Warp and Sub Pop. From a distance this rainbow swirl on the cover of Young Magic’s Melt resembles Helen Frankenthaler’s stain painting with a peacock-feather dash of 19th century aestheticism. Get up close and it’s all trippy pixelated patterns. Photograph: Leif Podhajsky

Louise Bourgeois, the original spider woman, would have either loved or loathed this poster for the latest Spider-Man flick. Its shadow spider with long, powerful pincers and sharp egg sac is the slick twin of the monster maternal arachnid sculptures with which she filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 1999. Photograph: Allstar

There’s a sense of intrigue and secret lore at play in the poster for this forthcoming thriller, about a time-travelling cult. Though masquerading as a sign language diagram, the gestures confound, and the orderly sequence of movements goes nowhere. Photograph: PR

Porter Ricks are mining the murky history of occultism with the new artwork for their reissued dub techno classic, Biokinetics. As an alchemical symbol, the black sun has appealed to everyone from Dan Brown to the Nazis. Photograph: PR

This portrait of the art-pop quartet Django Django recalls cult collagist John Stezaker’s spliced publicity shots of yesteryear’s B-movie stars. Photograph: Pavla Kopecna

This photo of bear paws for their Animal Joy CD is by Nicholas Kahn, of UK duo Kahn & Selesnick, who set futuristic fantasies in wild landscapes. Photograph: Nicholas Kahn