Skye Sherwin's A Good Look

This poster from Taschen’s latest design book, Information Graphics, is classic early 20th-century modernism: man as machine. It also, of course, points forward to Beano/Beezer comic strip The Numskulls, where tiny creatures live inside young Edd Case, controlling his faculties with an impressive division of labour. Photograph: von Debschitz

Lilacs & Champagne have said they wanted their first album to look like the kind of thing you might discover in a thrift store. You can almost smell the musty record sleeve. Set inside beams of light and a triangle, this all-seeing eye has been a potent symbol since the days of ancient Egypt and is employed by freemasons, Christians and the US government: it stares out from every one-dollar bill. Photograph: PR

Coming-of-age movie Turn Me On, Dammit! has a poster mining the sweet-toothed doodles of teens’ schoolbooks. This whimsical kind of fan portraiture has practically become a painting genre in its own right, thanks to artists such as Elizabeth Peyton, with her depictions of a high cheek-boned, tousle-haired demi-monde. Photograph: PR

The artwork for My Best Fiend’s debut album turns the sky into a roiling Rorschach blot. Artists have long been hooked on the awesome chaos of clouds, from Turner’s seascapes to Keith Tyson’s recent Cloud Choreography paintings: an impossible attempt to catalogue these nebulous forms. Here it’s all about the universe inside our heads, where clouds become castles and synapses ping celestial visions around. Photograph: PR