Skye Sherwin's A Good Look

The poster for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus isn’t subtle about the creation epic’s family similarity with his debut Alien. HR Giger, the fantasy artist behind the monster, has lent his hand to the film, creating his signature environments where mechanics and biology meld. Here this giant head sounds a double alarm, recalling the lonely stone monuments on the infamously ravaged Easter Island. Photograph: PR

George Lois’s original 1981 I Want My MTV logo is among the creations illustrating the iconic ad man’s genius in his latest book, Damn Good Advice. Blending John Pasche’s Rolling Stones logo with a twist on the slogan of a 1950s kids’ cereal commercial, it was a brassy piece of pop appropriation, whose bratty cry caught the cultural mood of the 80s “me decade”. Photograph: George Lois

This hunched bunny, staring into the void, on the cover of experimental folkie Alexander Tucker’s album Third Mouth, could almost be a cell from one of the nastier scenes in Martin Rosen’s exquisite animation of Watership Down. Photograph: PR

Nicki Minaj’s Roman Reloaded look seems to pay direct homage to the blonde bouffant and warrior facepaint sported by the futuristic clubber on the poster for cult new wave B movie Liquid Sky: both are built on makeup, hairspray and the cartoon prettiness of Manga. Photograph: PR

The monochrome op art on Carter Tutti Void’s album Transverse makes Bridget Riley’s dizzying early work with black and white squares seem almost soothing in comparison. Photograph: PR