An obscure Hungarian film entitled The Death of Dracula shot in 1921 was the first film to feature Stoker’s creation. However it was the 1922 film Nosferatu directed by FW Murnau that captured the public’s imagination.
‘Cover design by Germano Facetti. The Italian designer Facetti was the head of Penguin design from 1962 to 1971 and initiated the classic – and timeless – style of the 1960s’
From our gallery of classic penguin book covers.
Photograph: Pelican books
Desmond Rayner, 84, is one of a group of older talents being showcased by Megan Piper, a young gallerist attempting to buck the obsession with thrusting youth by bringing them to London’s West End
Photographer David Liittschwager captures the amazing range of our world’s biodiversity by placing a cube in different habitats and recording whatever moves through it
Flying Dutchman by Anthony Fokker, 1938.
Penguin book covers: the best of the famous publishing house’s jacket designs – from the classic colour bands to illustrations by Banksy and Shepard Fairey
Photograph: Penguin
From Bosch to Warhol, the Observer has the 10 scariest paintings. Photograph: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Sharpen your crayons and face down your existential crises with a spot of calming colouring-in © Ryan Hunter and Taige Jensen
Hassan Hajjaj’s portraits from Marrakesh capture the colour and spontaneity of his childhood in Morocco. His sitters – ‘not just musicians but the snake charmer, henna girl, bad boy, male belly dancer’ – often wear clothes he has designed, standing in spaces totally covered by patterns he has chosen, and the photographs are eventually set in a frame he has constructed. Read more here
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A beach hut bump on Brighton beach.
After reading that more women are painting their pregnant bellies, Anna Pickard meets a makeup artist that has been specialising in it for 12 years. Why do women do it, is it on the increase, and which designs are most popular?
Photograph: Embody
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