David Bowie is a priapic sailor on shore leave in front of one seriously phallic guitar on this rare 1978 Japanese single release, included in the exhibition Nacht Musik at the Vinyl Factory Chelsea in London. There are shades of Otto Dix’s Weimar-era paintings, while the font gives it a nice futuristic zing.Photograph: PRDinos Chapman has listed horror movies among his first album’s inspirations and his ragged beast-man could be a 1950s horror comic cell. The coloured shapes are more like fragments from a Suprematist painting.Photograph: AG/CAD LimitedThis cafe, from the movie Cloud Atlas, echoes a vision of the future familiar from Japanese art star Takashi Murakami’s work. Where his superflat paintings depict endlessly repeating cartoon motifs, like smiley sunflower faces, here the nightmare is brought to its logical conclusion: a population of identical clones.Photograph: Rex
The Joy Formidable have turned that cliched icon of new-age fantasy poster art, a wolf, into something perplexing and unsettling, as is the whole image’s numbed CGI smoothness.Photograph: PRThis poster for the upcoming Polish film festival was created by Tomasz Opasinski, the computer graphics artist behind the campaigns for Shrek and Hellboy. Here, he looks back to the decades under communism, when Polish poster design flourished, free from the Hollywood imperative to depict stars and tell a story.Photograph: PR
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