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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Yes, it’s an improvement, but I’m not a fan of the equal sign, which is not part of the original image. It’s a bit ham-fisted, if you ask me, and kind of ruins the photo.
I’m a fan of Sugimoto, though, so I am more likely to be annoyed than most.
Lovely, but also a bit of a rip off of the cover of Steve Reich’s collection “Reich Remixed” from Nonesuch.
Suddenly any cover featuring a sea & sky pic is a ripoff of Reich Remixed?
I don’t buy it.
I have to agree, most of their album covers are crap (though for a “band shot” cover I thought ATYCLB had a nice ambience)… the typography for the new record is rather horrid though hehe.
In terms of “ripping off” “Taylor Deupree used the same image in 2006“, and I’m pretty sure someone else used it ~2001?
Erutan: Good call. I suppose that called for the ginormous equal sign as a differentiator, which I happen to like a lot. I agree, too, that the cover for “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” was better than their average. For what that’s worth.
The album artwork reminds me of Nine Inch Nails.