On Monday night I attended a dinner party and my hosts had this image up on their wall, which I rather like. It's by Peter Saville, a new name to me, but a very big cheese in the world of graphic design, record sleeves, etc..

I rootled around various websites and the version here is the best that I could quickly find:

It's called "Colour and form" and dates from 2002. Saville was a late-comer, compared to many graphic artists, to computers, but now he loves them.

Once again, it seems that in all innocence I've picked a very well known picture, one of those ones that lots of much Better Informed people know about and like, apart from maybe disliking how many badly informed people like me like it too.

In a way, art is a bit like pop music, in that things which are merely rather nice get copied and experienced on this colossal scale, which seems out of all proportion to the modest niceness of the original object. Add a couple of million square yards of posh writing in praise of these innocuously nice objects and you're going to stir up a lot of hostility, not to the things themselves exactly, but to the enormous fuss that gets made of them. This fuss (which I'm now adding to of course) seems particularly bizarre when you compare it to the total lack of fuss that is made about millions of other objects and images which are just as nice but which don't happen to have got the attention of the Designers.