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I work as Athlete’s Head. The shop began under the name Rough-Cut-Head and still carries that name in its URL. I’m a graphic designer with a particular interest in classical and historical art. I like to rescue, restore, recycle and rework old images—preserving what makes them compelling while giving them a new graphic life. My Favorite Things is a curated cabinet of images and subjects I’m drawn to: monsters, mythological figures, vintage posters, botanical plates, Schiele, Medusa, strange historical imagery, and other visual oddities worth bringing back into circulation.
Banbury, UK
Dragon Among the Vines T-Shirt
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Description: A coiling dragon-serpent twists through an elaborate tangle of flowering vines while seizing a fish in its jaws. Rendered in a bold linocut-inspired style, the design combines Renaissance grotesque ornament, mythical bestiary imagery and vivid botanical detail into a dense decorative emblem.

Tags: bestiary art, bizarre, gryphon, herald, medieval bestiary
Griffin and Serpent T-Shirt
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Description: A fierce griffin lunges through a field of curling ornamental foliage while a serpent-like creature coils opposite it. Rendered in a bold linocut-inspired style, the composition combines medieval bestiary imagery, heraldic beasts and Renaissance grotesque ornament into a dramatic decorative emblem.

Tags: dragon eating fish, dragon fish, griffon, mythical, mythical beast
The All-Seeing Grotesque T-Shirt
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Description: A surreal grotesque mask with enormous staring eyes, sweeping leaf-like forms and an elaborate curling beard. Reworked in a bold linocut-inspired style, the design combines Renaissance grotesque ornament, owl-like symmetry and strange visionary symbolism into a stark decorative emblem

Tags: all seeing eyes, fantasy mask, giant eyes, grotesque, orna
The Horned Green Man T-Shirt
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Description: A fierce horned Green Man framed by curling ram horns, ivy leaves and red berries, gripping a heavy iron ring between his teeth. Rendered in a bold linocut-inspired style, the design blends pagan folklore, architectural grotesque imagery and old-world door-knocker ornament into a stark emblematic portrait.

Tags: faun, goth, gothic, horned god, mythological
The Horned Satyr T-Shirt
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Description: A horned satyr enthroned atop an ornate classical column, gripping ceremonial cords in a rigid, symmetrical pose. Reworked as a bold black-field linocut poster, the image combines Renaissance grotesque ornament, pagan mythology and monumental architectural form.

Tags: classical m, classical mythology, faun, grotesque, grotesque art
Heraldic Griffon Tile Linocut T-Shirt
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Description: Inspired by a historic decorative tile, this design features a golden heraldic Griffon within a round ornamental frame. Bold, simplified shapes reinterpret the original tile motif as a linocut-style poster on a solid black background.

Tags: decorative tile, fantasy, griffin, gryphon, heraldic lion
Hellbound Roadster T-Shirt
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Description: A blazing vintage roadster tears through a field of flames beneath a black, star-filled sky. Bold red, yellow and cream shapes, heavy carved lines and distressed print texture give the design the feel of an old European motoring poster crossed with pulp illustration and linocut printmaking.

Tags: car, daredevil, hot rod, mazda, miata
Madonna and Child T-Shirt
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Description: Byzantine Madonna and Child Icon

Tags: byzantine, christian, madonna, madonna and child, mary
Fallen T-Shirt
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Description: Satan dethroned

Tags: angel, baphomet, devil worship, goat, gothic
Jugend Magazine Cover T-Shirt
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Description: Jugend Magazine Cover 1898

Tags: art deco, art nouveau, jugendstil, magazine, magazine cover
JUGEND Cover T-Shirt
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Description: Jugend – Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben (German for 'Youth – Munich illustrated weekly for art and life') (1896–1940) was an influential German arts magazine. Founded in Munich by Georg Hirth who edited it until his death in 1916, the weekly was originally intended to showcase German Arts and Crafts, but became famous for showcasing the German version of Art Nouveau instead. It was also famed for its "shockingly brilliant covers and radical editorial tone" and for its avant-garde influence on German arts and culture for decades, ultimately launching the eponymous Jugendstil ('Youth Style') movement in Munich, Weimar, and Darmstadt's Darmstadt Artists' Colony.

Tags: art deco, art nouveau, bauhaus, magazine, magazine cover
Hellbound Roadster T-Shirt
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Description: A blazing vintage roadster tears through a field of flames beneath a black, star-filled sky. Bold red, yellow and cream shapes, heavy carved lines and distressed print texture give the design the feel of an old European motoring poster crossed with pulp illustration and linocut printmaking.

Tags: classic car, daredevil, demented, fire, flames
FLYING DRAGON T-Shirt
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Description: Vintage Flying Dragon Matchbox Label

Tags: box, dragon, japan, made in japan, matchbox
Gorgon T-Shirt
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Description: Mythological figure in bold linocut style

Tags: ancient greece, greek mythology, medusa, mythology, snake
Matchbox T-Shirt
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Description: Vintage Toad Protection Matchbox Label

Tags: bat, frog, japan, japanese, manga
Man Versus the Crimson Octopus T-Shirt
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Description: Ukiyo-E Style Man Versus Octopus

Tags: cephalopod, japan, japanese, japanese art, kraken
Virgin Mary and child in radiant sunburst T-Shirt
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Description: Virgin Mary and child in radiant sunburst

Tags: catholic, faith, madonna, madonna and child, mary
Egon Schiele — Galerie Arnot Exhibition Poster T-Shirt
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Description: A bold graphic reinterpretation of an early Egon Schiele exhibition poster, preserving its stark typography, contorted figure and striking field of arrows. Reduced to flat colour and strong black structure, the design keeps the raw Expressionist tension of the original while giving it a cleaner, screen-print-ready graphic character. Ideal for admirers of Schiele, Viennese Expressionism, Secession-era design and early modernist poster art.

Tags: austrian expressionism, egon, expressionism, saint, saint sebastian
Saint Sebastian T-Shirt

Description: Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Tags: catholic, christian, faith, martyrdom, sebastian
Chariot and Horse T-Shirt
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Description: Solar Charioteer and Three Horses

Tags: art deco, chariot, chariot and horse, horse, seccession
Moon Face T-Shirt
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Description: Moon Face

Tags: galaxy, moon, moonlight, space, stars
Death Rides the Midnight Express T-Shirt
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Description: A skeletal rider charges through the darkness atop a roaring steam locomotive, torch raised and fire streaming behind him. A stark black-field linocut design combining memento mori imagery, vintage railway power and apocalyptic momentum. For fans of skeleton art, gothic folklore, steam trains, dark symbolism and old-school woodcut graphics.

Tags: death, grim reaper, horror, locomotive, midnight express
Riders of the Four Seas T-Shirt
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Description: Four classical riders on mythical sea beasts surround a central compass rose, framed by curled sea creatures. Bold ivory-and-black linocut forms evoke antique maritime imagery in a balanced square design with a transparent background

Tags: cl, compass rose, linocut, maritime art, mythology
Atlas T-Shirt
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Description: Atlas kneels beneath an immense sphere in this bold ivory-and-black linocut illustration. Carved forms and a strained pose capture the mythic burden of strength, endurance, and responsibility. Transparent background.

Tags: attack on titan, classical art, greek mythology, linocut, manga
Smoke Opium — Dragon Gardener Linocut T-Shirt
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Description: A humorous vintage-style poster featuring a serpentine dragon curled around a gardener watering a poppy. Bold ivory forms, carved lettering, and playful slogans create a striking linocut design with a transparent background.

Tags: dragon, gardener, humorous art, linocut, poppy
Bike Stripes T-Shirt
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Description: A bold geometric cycling design built from the five classic racing colours. Repeated wheels, angular rider forms and overlapping colour bands turn the cyclist into an abstract study of speed, rhythm and competition. A clean modernist piece for road cycling, racing and bicycle culture fans.

Tags: bicycle, bike, cycling, jersey, retro
Megatherium — Giant Ground Sloth Skeleton T-Shirt
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Description: A giant ground sloth skeleton rendered in bold linocut-style forms, with heavy ivory bone masses, deep crimson accents and stark black negative space. Based on an early nineteenth-century comparative osteology plate of Megatherium, combining palaeontological anatomy with severe gothic printmaking.

Tags: cabinet of curiosities, dark art, extinct animal, giant ground sloth, gothic
Megatherium — Giant Ground Sloth Skeleton T-Shirt
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Description: A giant ground sloth skeleton rendered in bold linocut-style forms, with heavy ivory bone masses, deep crimson accents and stark black negative space. Based on an early nineteenth-century comparative osteology plate of Megatherium, combining palaeontological anatomy with severe gothic printmaking.

Tags: anatomical illustration, anatomy, animal skeleton, bones, curiosity
Most Bitter Moonseed T-Shirt
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Description: A dark angel, scattering seed on the land from a bag slung over one shoulder. Derived from the work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones Most Bitter Moonseed, The Flower Book (The enemy sowing tares by night)

Tags: angel, dark, fallen angel, gothic, horror
World Cycling Championships T-Shirt
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Description: A bold geometric cycling design built from the five classic racing colours. Repeated wheels, angular rider forms and overlapping colour bands turn the cyclist into an abstract study of speed, rhythm and competition. A clean modernist piece for road cycling, racing and bicycle culture fans.

Tags: cycling, giro ditalia, race, tour de france, vuelta
Bike Stripes World Road Race T-Shirt
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Description: A bold geometric cycling design built from the five classic racing colours. Repeated wheels, angular rider forms and overlapping colour bands turn the cyclist into an abstract study of speed, rhythm and competition. A clean modernist piece for road cycling, racing and bicycle culture fans.

Tags: bicycle, bike racing, cycling, cycling art, cycling design
Wrathful Skeleton Deity T-Shirt
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Description: A fierce skeletal guardian seated within a blazing halo, crowned with skulls and holding ritual weapons and offerings. Inspired by Tibetan and tantric sacred imagery, this bold dark design combines death symbolism, wrathful protection and memento mori iconography in a striking black, red and gold composition.

Tags: protector deity, tantric art, tibetan inspired, wrathful deity, wrathful skeleton
wrathful deity T-Shirt
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Description: A fierce wrathful guardian surrounded by flames, skulls and ritual symbols, inspired by Tibetan Buddhist and Vajrayana imagery. A bold dark graphic for fans of sacred monsters, fierce deities, occult symbolism, Buddhist iconography and mythic protector figures.

Tags: buddha, buddhism, buddhist art, buddhist deity, dharm
Flame Meditation T-Shirt

Description: A skeletal yogi sits in lotus posture within a blazing mandorla of fire, smiling from the heart of death and transformation. Drawing on Tibetan and tantric visual language, this design combines memento mori, sacred wrath and meditative stillness in a stark, ritual image of transcendence through flame.

Tags: buddhist art, buddhist deity, death meditation, dharm, flame meditation
Citroen T-Shirt
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Description: Citroen poster

Tags: 2cv, car, citroen 2cv, citroen bx, citroen ds
Ship on Stormy Seas T-Shirt
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Description: Linocut Ship on Stormy Seas

Tags: black pearl, boat, jolly roger, ocean, pirate

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