"Digital Witness"

A visually stunning video from St. Vincent, whose new self-titled album arrives in late February. I love analogous colour schemes.
 

Cover Design 101

As print design celebrities go, you can't get much more entertaining than Knopf's associate art director, Chip Kidd. Since his TED talk a couple years back, Kidd has been riding the lecture circuit, which brought him to Edmonton this week. Earlier tonight, Kidd gave a talk very similar to the one posted below. While the aesthetic of his book covers can be hit or miss (usually hit, especially if you're fond of the 90s), I have yet to see one that doesn't succeed in making a strong conceptual impact.

Chip Kidd from Creative Mind at Brown on Vimeo.

My most popular posts of 2013

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2. Pruitt-Igoe and the fate of modernist architecture
3. Notes on Capital, Vol. 1: Labour and reproduction
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5. My top ten of 2013