No. 095, in eight plates8-Bit Formula One

Treat the title as a red herring: there isn't a jagged pixel in the room. 8-Bit Formula One is drawn in clean, hard-edged vector colour, the flat fills and crisp outlines of a screen-printed garage poster. What it shares with the cartridge era is the period. The car is a low, wedge-nosed single-seater in the style of the late 1980s, liveried in red and white, its driver in a bright yellow helmet, and every plate sets it against the same saturated cobalt.

The car is never shown whole, and that restraint is the series' trick. Cropped Cockpit pushes in until the sidepod lettering fills the bottom third and the visor sits just under the middle of the frame. Bottom Edge and Long Wheelbase run the car along the lower border in profile, as low as a skirting board. Head-On and Three-Quarter Front turn it toward you, the rear wing reading like a banner stretched behind the helmet. Cream Stripe is the oddball, a tall band of pale cream dropped down the left side as if a mount board had slipped in the frame.

As Lock Screen material it is about as generous as wallpaper gets. Roughly two thirds of each plate is uninterrupted blue, so the clock, the date and a row of widgets all float on clean colour while the car sits underneath like a signature. On the Home Screen that blue is mid-toned rather than dark, which keeps white labels crisp; the busy red-and-white bodywork lands around dock level, where a translucent dock softens it.

It will suit anyone who remembers the turbo-and-tobacco years, collectors of motorsport prints, and people who prefer one loud colour to a crowded photo. Bottom Edge and Side Profile are free at full resolution; the other six are premium. They are original illustrations, unconnected to any team, sponsor or driver.