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Sweet September rain (in February). A smashing new Burberry spot doing the rounds on social. Featuring South Korean actor Son Suk-ku, a London caff (not café) and most importantly the perfect heart-breaker of a track - When Love Breaks Down by Prefab Sprout. An ace way to sell a posh raincoat.

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Mubi's 'movie poster columnist' Adrian Curry has come up with his Top 10 for the year. Here's my fave - designed by Maria Pestana Teixeira 'with punkish aplomb'.

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Print magazine have put out their Top 100 book covers of the year. Here's my two faves.

Birding - design by Charlotte Stroomer, photography by Kelsey McClellan.

High Jump As Icarus Story - design by Anna Morrison.

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Paul Almasy. Bill poster. 1950s

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Last couple of days of the sensational Strizzi exhibition at the gem of exhibition space that is The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art. Beautiful shots of beautiful mid-century continental cinema stars.

And below my own snap of an exhibited photo which doesn't seem to be grabbable from the web - Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano. Plus the gallery's own poster wall... 👌 (Foccacia good too).

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Illustrations by La Boca for a 75th anniversary publication of Orwell's 1984. Styled on 1940s propaganda. Only 75 books being published.

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Images from a new book by British photographer Mike Abrahams. This Was Then catalogues 1970s and 1980s working-class Britain. The decision to shoot in black and white is credited to Abrahams adolescent years in Liverpool, a city he felt was “absent of colour”. Images above are shot in Liverpool, Blackburn and Camden. H/T Creative Review.

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Blimey! This is just an ace pairing. Song (Doolally) by Hak Baker. Video by Hugh Mulhern. A tumble through live action, animation, puppets and AI. What a brilliantly messy night out...

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From a wonderful dive into the archives of Life magazine. A 1972 behind-the-scenes spread of the filming of Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes. Shot at a futuristic mall in Century City, LA to convey the film's setting of 1991 (!)

#film #sci-fi

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Surprisingly modern for a 14th Century poet.

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Sun, sea, sangria. Tremendous shots of the 1970s package holiday boom. By Trevor Clark who set up a studio in Mallorca in 1968. Used in brochures for Thomas Cook and Skytours. Now featuring in the Vintage Britain series of books from Hoxton Mini Press.

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Photos from John Myers collection shot in Stourbridge in the 1970s. This quote from the book Looking At The Overlooked. “There is no hidden story behind these photographs and no event is about to unfold beyond the frame. They are landscapes without incident.”

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Strong work by the Italian NGO Emergency.

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Briliantly considered portraits from the 60s across Washington and Dublin by the criminally uncelebrated Evelyn Hofer. From a great exhibition at the ever reliable Photographers' Gallery in London.

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Posters by KesselsKramer to promote a series on siblings for European culture TV channel Arte. All about 'de-romanticisation'.

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British Soldier, Co. Down. The oblivious shoppers. The traffic sign re-cast as a target. From the exhibition Northern Ireland: Living WIth The Troubles at London’s Imperial War Museum.