Matt Lyon

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

Good stuff

Photo of a page from the book Type Speaks showing a 5x5 square illustrative type design with the words SUPER BONUS EXTRA MAGIC POWER in decorative letters

5x5 square illustrative type design with the words SUPER BONUS EXTRA MAGIC POWER in decorative letters, predominantly yellow and orange with purple and cyan details on a dark purple background

Five years later, and I've just stumbled upon an old type design of mine in Type Speaks by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson

Thanks Chris!

Digital illustration: a collection of elements such as stars, skateboards, rollerskates, lollipops, mouths / lips, sunscapes, etc on a dark background in warm nostalgic colours

Summer skater vibes, 2017

Some unused concepts from my work for the Tommy Hilfiger spring runway show at Venice Beach, LA

Cafes in South West London in the mid-1970s - Flashbak In the mid-1970s, Grenville Horner was out and about in south-west London taking pictures of the local cafes

Love a good caff. Big shout-out to the Hygienic Bakery

Post by @c86 · 30 images 💬 0  🔁 4  ❤️ 14 · Вечір на Івана Купала | Vechir na Ivana Kupala | Yuri Illienko | 1968

More pics here

Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala (1968) Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavr...

I grabbed it from here, which is the best I've seen so far: rarefilmm.com/2025/10/vech...

Oh my, incredible stuff 🔥

Screencap: A small thatched cottage in grassland with the heads of a number of people looking out through the roof

Screencap: A view of a small village showing a handful of thatched buildings, one with a dominating high roof

Screencap: Green landscape of rocky hills with a windmill atop the horizon

Screencap: A shallow grassy hillside dotted with ten small thatched cottages

Landscapes

Screencap: A man playing a whistle, sat on the back of a carriage surrounded by children and cages

Screencap: A couple floating horizontally in front of an interior window surrounded by a painted folk art floral decoration, a table and sacks

Screencap: A woman in mourning is held upright in front of a smoke damaged wall and window through which a number of faces look through

Screencap: A decorative folk art house wall, painted with cockerels and flowers. A woman sits in the open doorway facing a pastoral landscape

Vechir na Ivana Kupala |
Yuri Illienko | 1968

Probably one of the most beautiful films I'll watch this year

‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators

Synth porn

Link to report: theaoi.com/wp-content/u...

Brave New World? New report warns generative AI is already costing creators their livelihoods Built on evidence from over 10,000 creators, the move lays bare the real-world damage generative AI is already doing to creative careers, and the fight for fairness is only just beginning. The Ass...

Resist! Also, aside from all the ethical reasons to boycott gen-AI, OpenAI's president is Trump's largest donor...

YouTube video by The Smiths The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead - A Film By Derek Jarman (Official Music Video)

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Illustrative type design showing the words "understand that we are you" in yellow and red, surrounded by cloud-like decorative elements and stars coloured red, green and purple

"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking" - Derek Jarman, BOTD 31 January 1942

Sapphire & Steel (27th January 1981). A new assignment beckons for S&S - the one with the old pictures and the bowler-hatted faceless man ....

The way all these chocolate bars fit perfectly together in the box is so satisfying 🍫

Vintage sealed packet of Smiths Horror Bags: Bones in a clear display box

This is like a museum exhibit

U.K. CRISP PACKETS BOOK From Salt ’n’ Shake to Space Raiders, this nostalgic little book peels back the foil on three decades of U.K. crisp packets. The incomplete crisp packet collection by Chris Packet 1970 - 2000.

I hope Smiths Horror Bags are included

‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency – in pictures For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she lo...

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Letterboxd stats time 🍿📽

Smithereens (1982). Screencap: Shot from below of a woman looking over the banisters of a flight of stairs. Subtitle reads: "Good riddance to bad rubbish."

So long 2025

Ten film posters of the chosen titles: The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 The Sergeant | John Flynn | 1968 My Favourite Cake | Maryam Moghadam · Behtash Sanaeeha | 2024 Ruzové sny | Dusan Hanák | 1977 Here | Bas Devos | 2023 El diputado | Eloy de la Iglesia | 1978 Sztuczki | Andrzej Jakimowski | 2007 Bring Her Back | Danny Philippou · Michael Philippou | 2025 Les amis | Gérard Blain | 1971 Tiger Bay | J. Lee Thompson | 1959 Honourable mentions: The Edge of the World (1937), Skin Deep (2022), Griffin in Summer (2024), Drowning Dry (2024), They Live by Night (1948), Dead End (1937), Scarface (1932), Razorback (1984), The Fifth Season (2012), Lost for Words (1999), The Limey (1999), Big Business (1988), Au pan coupé (1967), Ordinary People (2009), Private Property (1960), El cazador (2020), World War III (2022), Good One (2024), Strange Darling (2023), The Angry Silence (1960)

In no particular order, my ten favourite first-watch films of 2025. As always, so many discoveries and long-overdue treats. Alt text for further details and honourable mentions

You too! Have a good one x 🎁🔔⛄

✨🎄 Christmas Star Rise 🎄✨

☆ Seasonal Yuletide greetings! Enjoy the festivities ☆

Stephanie Burt | Shoegazing Remember shoegaze? If you’re under forty you won’t, though you might have come across it later. It’s the rock...

‘Remember shoegaze? If you’re under forty you won’t,’ Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) writes.

It’s back: ‘There’s a shoegaze revival underway, and it’s youth-led, and characteristically trans.’

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Object of the week: Mid-century Christmas card designs by Ealing Studios As an annual tradition throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Ealing Studios’ advertising director S. John Woods designed a special Christmas card. The results were typical of the studio’s graphic design ...

Season's greetings

YouTube video by pete beard THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHARLES KEEPING

One of my favourites, incredible work ❤

Screencap: Film titlecard, white text on a pink background with two roses: "Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt"

Screencap: Head and shoulders of two men together, subtitle reads: "Upholding the oppression of homosexuals is especially crucial to rich gays"

Screencap: Shot of seven men outside a bar at night, subtitle reads: "Fairies are not as phony as bourgeois gays"

Screencap: Shot of six naked men together on a floor mattress against a lilac drape, subtitle reads: "Let's unite with the Black Panthers and the Women's Lib"

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, 1971

RIP Rosa von Praunheim
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Palestine Film Index

Palestine Film Index

Currently 700+ films, along with additional texts and resources