Design Observer looks at the new vogue among the trenderati for vintage typewriters.

Although perhaps more interesting, in terms of fine art, is their potential for prototyping of the future Giant Beetle Race…

Video preview for the major new exhibition “Tentacles: The Astounding Lives of Octopuses, Squid and Cuttlefishes”, on now in California.

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And a “Making of…” that examines the automata and animatronics…

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Underwhelming Lovecraft Monsters…

Delightfully cheesy Spanish Lovecraft comic from 1972, with a complete Innsmouth adaptation.

The monster accompanying the letter “A”, in Jan Chrystian Bierpfaff and Jeremiasz Falck’s monstrous alphabet, 1656.

Hat-tip: BibliOdyssey.

Those interested in digital sketching tools may be interested in following my brand new blog on the popular software Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.

Here’s my very first try with this software, a Lovecraftian take on ‘verdant springtime emergence’…

HPL might have balked at the socialistic implications of using the word ‘collective’, especially if he had known of the horrors inflicted in the name of various collectives during the 20th century. I’m with those who call for a strong questioning of any expression of ‘socialist chic’ in the 21st century.

But the new Facebook art group Lovecraft Artisan Collective is well worth a look, and has been primed with examples of work of an obviously high quality.

Lovely two-page spread of the recreated “The Haunter of the Dark” art for well-known UK Panther paperback of Lovecraft from the 1970s, created by Ian Miller. Also an interview with Ian. To be found in ImagineFX magazine, March 2013.

New storytelling games…

“The latest wave of games hinges on experiencing or even writing complex narratives. And fresh game-building tools mean even poetry is making a comeback”

A developing series of Photoshop concept paintings for At The Mountains of Madness, by Ivany86…

Just out: 88 pages of Swedish comics adaptations of Lovecraft, Skracken i Dunwich och andra berattelser…