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Just in time for the holidays is Pitchforks annual 20 worst album covers. Kudos for the staff at Pitchfork for forgoing the usual cast of suspects and digging up some pretty awful picks. My favorite worst pic has to be Super Furry Animals Hey Venus!. It's so very bad, you gotta respect it for taking it all the way.
"We don't need design anymore—the public's had enough. They're media saturated and too savvy for it. We don't need to undesign our designs. We need NO design."
Last Thursday night I heard Kenya Hara speak about his book Designing Design and about some of the exhibitions and concepts he has been exploring. Couple that with the fact that I promised myself no more epic blog posts (ala "be the change you want to see in the world"), having my mind blown by what I've read in his book so far, and the fact that I should be writing me thesis proposal right now, I'll just present a few short key points that have made an impression on me...
If the internet is essential to modern life, the lower-case phenomenon in logos embodies that direction. Next month, Bon Appétit Magazine will unfurl a new logo, and a willingness to complete with successful and more youthful brands like Real Simple and Martha Stewart Living. The logo has been stripped of it's severe capitals, and replaced by a softened Baskerville-ish font, looking to skew younger than the magazine's typical 50-something reader. In fact, using lower-case type to redefine an established brand might suggest something more specific for the 21st century: a deference towards the web.
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