Don Draper faces up to Technicolor hippy decadence in this poster for Mad Men’s final season. It suggests both the old-world excess of Toulouse-Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge as well as 60s psychedelic art, being inspired by Czech art nouveau legend Alphonse Mucha’s luxuriously florid designs. Photograph: PR
The scorched leaf and dying flower medley on the Liverpool band’s Quiet Confidence EP recalls YBA Anya Gallaccio’s installations, in which plant life withers and turns mouldy before our eyes. It also has the artfully dishevelled look of modern food photography. Photograph: PR
The mysterious grainy orb is presumably meant to be a planet, but also suggests an ancient occult symbol: the black sun. It fascinated surrealists Jean Cocteau, André Masson and Georges Bataille, who named it “The Solar Anus” in his writing. Photograph: PR
The spooky, ethereal dreamworld that graces the new album by American indie popsters The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is a work by young Korean surrealist Lee Jinju. It recalls Marlene McCarty’s delicate ballpoint drawings of half-dressed teenage bad girls. Photograph: PR
Neil Kellerhouse is the movie industry’s go-to guy for smart, sophisticated poster art. His design for Under The Skin works against the film’s apparent grain – earthbound, realist grit – to suggest its allegiance with intelligent sci-fi. Photograph: Allstar
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