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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 02/10/2026

Announced by @foliosociety.bsky.social yesterday, my work on a new edition of Heretics of Dune

Photograph of The Folio Society edition of Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune, shown standing upright beside its matching slipcase on a plain grey background. The cloth-bound book has a cream cover with a monochrome illustration of a stern young woman with long windblown hair, haloed by a gold circle and wearing a dark close-fitting garment speckled with gold flecks. The spine reads "Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune - Folio Society" in green lettering. The black slipcase to the right is decorated with a flowing gold-and-black abstract design suggesting swirling sand or wind, with a small circle near the top.

Photograph of the same Heretics of Dune edition lying open flat. The left page shows a full-bleed illustration in deep orange tones: a lone robed figure crouches on the crest of a wind-sculpted ridge, with a hazy, decaying city skyline rising behind through the dust. The right-hand title page reads, in bold black type, "Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune - Illustrated by Matt Griffin," with "London / The Folio Society / 2026" at the lower left.

Illustration of an Honored Matre, a powerful warrior-woman from the Dune universe. She is seated and poised on a large dark crescent-shaped form, set against a glowing deep-red background. She wears a skin-tight red bodysuit and an elaborate sculptural red headdress that sweeps outward like wings. Her eyes glow a fierce orange-red. One leg is drawn up and bare feet are exposed, and a long shadow falls on the floor beneath her. The whole image is bathed in dramatic crimson light.

Illustration of a No-Ship, a vast spacecraft from the Dune universe, rendered in glossy, organic, liquid-like forms that resemble billowing folds of molten metal stacked in layers. The craft hovers on slender legs above a hazy red desert landscape. Behind it, two large magenta-pink moons hang in a saturated red sky. The entire scene is dominated by intense reds and crimsons.

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 06/08/2026

The news is out 👀 More updates in the coming weeks…

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 22/07/2026

Today was a good post day... A lovely surprise - my copy of the Dune 4-6 deluxe box set arrived from Penguin It feels *amazing* to get to hold these things in person. This is the fulfillment of a life-long dream after all…

Photo of a man with short brown hair and a short beard, smiling slightly at the camera, holding two hardcover box sets of Frank Herbert's Dune saga side by side, showing the spines of all six books: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune. Framed vintage film posters are visible on the wall behind him.

Interior illustration spread from a Dune book, showing a red-suited female humanoid figure with a bald head reclining on an ornate dark throne against a yellow-green background, with a smaller shadowy cat- or demon-like figure crouched on the facing page.

Close-up of three hardcover book spines standing upright, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert, each in a different color treatment (brown, blue, teal), set against their green and gold illustrated slipcase featuring a moonlit desert landscape

Photo of Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Books 4-6 box set standing upright next to its three matching hardcover book covers laid out on a desk: God Emperor of Dune (brown, cloaked figure), Heretics of Dune (blue, figure silhouetted against a shattered moon), and Chapterhouse: Dune (teal, seated figure in a circular window). A computer monitor and desk items are visible in the background.

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 26/06/2026

Available now from @vicepress.bsky.social Highlander (Japanese Edition) ⚔️ Available in A2 (numbered ed of 2000) & A3 (open ed) vice-press.com/en-ie/produc...

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 14/04/2026

The Preacher from Children of Dune

A wide angle image of two cloaked figures standing in the foreground, in the background is a vast temple. A row of palm trees going towards the temple give a sense of huge scale. One figure is hooded, and resting an arm on the shoulder of the other, smaller figure who sports a kind of turban and glowing blue eyes. The colours - peach, mandarin, pink - along with the dust and hazy atmosphere show the extreme heat of the city of Arrakis. A burning sun sets behind the temple.

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 17/03/2026

All of the interior pieces for books 4-6 in the Dune saga have been released.. See them all here - mattgriffin.art/dune-46-delu...

Three people ride on the back of a giant sandworm, across the dunes towards an otherworldly rocky outcrop and the blazing sunset behind it.

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 13/03/2026

My cover art for books 4-6 of the Dune saga have been revealed :) Interior pieces (9 in total) will be shared soon (I hope!) For a closer look, head to mattgriffin.art/dune-46-delu...

An image of a box set of book 4-6 in Frank Herbert's Dune saga. The image shows the outer box art, a predominantly green scene of Odrade walking with Duncan in the Chapterhouse orchards, and the 3 book spines.

A wide angle image, predominantly golden yellow and browns, featuring Leto II - the half-sandworm, half-man God Emperor of Dune

A wide angle image of trippy electric blues, purples and reds featuring the character Sheeana from 'Heretics of Dune' standing before a sandworm's mouth, holding one hand up as if controlling it.

A wide angle image of greens and blues featuring the character Odrade - Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit - seated at her desk in Chapterhouse. Around her, sand blows on the floor and steps - a nod to the desertification of the planet Chapterhouse and it's wider meaning in the arc of the story.

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 24/07/2025

Ideas about digital life, AI, simulation theory, religion & reality expressed through the lens of nostalgia & pop culture these are in order..

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

So that is what I continue to do.. I am a crazily, weirdly, lucky guy to make my living this way.. If you follow me or like my stuff I am incredibly grateful .. I've been doing this full time for 17 years.. I still feel like I'm only getting started Thanks for reading :)

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

I also wanted to play around with storytelling.. So back in 2017 I decided that instead of trying to write another book I'd just try to combine all of my passions into one giant narrative experiment The (ongoing) result is The Endling Saga

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

I also make a lot of art for myself. In fact, I mostly make art for myself. Personal work has always come first bc it's important (fundamental) to me, but also it leads to all the commercial work (& I have to earn a living) .. i like to play with diff mediums, no restrictions.. play time

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

I also write & from 2015-17 I had a series of children's books published called The Ayla Trilogy It was pretty crazy & it's something I'm v proud of, even tho I hate that 3rd cover with a passion (it's ok for me to say that, I made them.. & did all the interiors too. fwiw, I hate those now too)

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

But mostly when it comes to commercial work it's books & movies (which is dream come true) And you might notice - a lot of Dune .. Dune has become an absolutely massive part of my working life, which is also dream-come-true bc it's always been a massive part of my non-work life too

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

I occasionally do other things too, like editorial or advertising

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

... and DVD covers, pretty much all for Arrow Video (but some others) I've done a lot of these

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

I've done bits & pieces of stuff for films (key art, merch) but mostly I do licensed posters for galleries ...

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

For a living, I make art for books and films mostly A lot of covers (have no idea how many) ...

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 18/07/2025

Hi, my name is Matt (or Griff) & this is what I do 🧵

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 27/05/2025

My latest licensed poster has been revealed ⚔️ Available this Thursday at 6pm BST from @vicepress.bsky.social vice-press.com/blogs/news/h...

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 20/05/2025

Dune saga 1-3 box art, sketch to dream-being-real

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 01/05/2025

Found this while going through some old files

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 28/04/2025

Texture making & sketch for the piece below (it's called 'Home to the Sietch', an endpaper illustration for the Penguin / Ace deluxe edition of Dune) #dune #artprocess

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 03/04/2025

A fun cover I did recently for Simon & Schuster .. Challenge was to make it seamlessly 'flip-able' as it's two books in one

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 31/03/2025

Good morning Had an influx of followers here over the w/e, not sure why 😅 But I'm grateful so thanks for following Maybe good to re-intro myself.. I am Matt, I make art commercially for books & films (mostly) & storytelling & multimedia in my own time See it all on mattgriffin.art

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 21/02/2025

Hi, I'm Matt, an Irish artist & author. I work in commercial illustration (mostly publishing & film) & licensed movie posters. I also blend animation, sound & storytelling in my passion project, The Endling Saga – a rethink of storytelling (& reality) in the digital age. mattgriffin.art

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 19/02/2025

Dune Messiah begins filming in the summer.. already counting the days to see it Here’s my art for the Penguin/Ace deluxe edition 📖

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Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art · 19/02/2025

Have never done any proper ship designs.. The one time I did a ship series, I wanted them not to look like ships I called them 'DRFTSHPS' .. Would defo like to try my hand and ships-that-look-like-ships someday too tho :) [made with combo of Sculptris, Blender, Procreate & Pshop)

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