No. 083, in seventeen platesLooking Tactical

Looking Tactical is laid out like a stack of Japanese film posters. Each plate is a photographic portrait of a soldier in olive or coyote-tan gear, standing square to the camera in a rail yard, a corrugated shed or an unlit warehouse, then overprinted with katakana so large it runs off the edges. The type, in white and signal red, is there for its shapes rather than its meaning, so read it as graphic texture. The palette barely moves: concrete grey, warehouse black, olive drab and that one hard red.

The joke, told with a straight face, is the company they keep. Ten of the seventeen plates pair a soldier with a working dog: a Malinois sitting to attention in Scarf and Malinois, a German shepherd gazing up at its handler in Eye Contact, another panting happily in Tongue Out. Then the casting turns. Four plates swap the dog for a rabbit or hare, one white and enormous at a man's boots in White Rabbit, another cradled like a baby in Carried. Three more hand the role to a sheep, woolly and unbothered beside a woman in a plate carrier.

On a phone the posters are top-heavy by design. The biggest characters fill the upper third, which is exactly where the Lock Screen clock lands, so the time sits over lettering rather than open space; dark warehouse plates such as White Rabbit and Carried keep that type to a single band and give the clock a cleaner field. Figures stand in the lower middle with their animals, so Lock Screen widgets brush their shoulders. On the Home Screen, the pale concrete plates suit dark icons, while the black warehouse plates let white labels read cleanly.

It is a set for people who like a bit of attitude with their punchline: dog handlers, fans of poster design, anyone who has ever owned a very serious pet. Scarf and Malinois, Ponytail and Shepherd, Eye Contact and Looking Away report for duty free in full resolution; the other thirteen are premium.