Stack and MUBI present: Surprise!

Over the last year we teamed up with online cinema service MUBI and asked some of the world’s most exciting illustrators to show us what surprise looks like to them.

The illustrations were printed as postcards and sent to Stack subscribers as part of their monthly delivery, and now we’ve recreated the images as beautiful A1 prints, on show at Magma in Covent Garden until 22 April.

Scroll on to see the illustrations in all their glory at our launch party on Thursday 31 March, and if you really like the look of them, head over to the Magma online shop to buy one of the limited edition prints.

Victoria Walmsley from Bread Collective with a typographic take on surprise

Nothing says surprise like a monkey in a pile of presents, by Alice Bowsher

Rob Lowe, aka Supermundane, with one of his brilliantly abstract faces (the illustration, not his actual face)

A pair of mesmerising eyes by Anna Dunn

A boom of surprise by Maria Ines Gul

Paul Willoughby with his patterned interpretation of surprise

Cynthia Kittler in front of her beautifully cinematic piece

Say hello to Tuchi, alongside her colourful pastels.

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