is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Ok, I wouldn’t inherently find this offensive to my sensibilities, per se, but I think your enthusiasm for the design is more about content and emotion than about typesetting or layout.
Connecting with what something actively *is* in a natural way allows you to understand or appreciate differently what it passively expresses.
Or something like that 😉
The cover of her first album is similarly striking and “off;” I’ve found it intensely beautiful and haunting since first seeing it: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31A85tE8izL._SS500_.jpg
I like it because the cover reflects the content. They took great care to visually reflect the content and in this case, a *wild* font looks as wonderful as the tenderness of a giant beast!
sweet.
I think it transcends bad because the overall layout is staid and non-offensive. It neatly balances the “wild” and gimmicky font which is also tempered or offset by a photograph with a self-contained dynamic similar to that of the typesetting/layout.
I have to disagree here.
I like the music, however the cover just doesn’t work for me. In a way it kind of wants to be a Peter Saville cover (think joy division’s closer) but just isn’t there.
This isn’t offensive – but it’s not terribly good either.
sorry
BTW – love the thinking behind this site