Chip Kidd's Killer Rolling Stone Cover
Peep the cover of the most recent issue of Rolling Stone. It's nothing if not an object lesson in the powerful simplicity of graphic design done right. No surprise, I suppose, since the cover was conceptualized by Chip Kidd.
For those who don't know of Kidd, he's most highly renowned for his book-jacket designs, in which medium he reigns (among the living) absolutely unchallenged. His Work: 1986-2006 is a superlative greatest-hits collection culled from two decades' eye-popping book jackets and worth every penny.
Then again, maybe this issue's perfect cover should be a surprise, given that the former bastion of music journalism has lately taken to featuring incomparably horrible covers like last issue's inexplicable image of Shark Boy winning a wet t-shirt contest.
As for what's between the sheets, well, RS's look back at the '00s is predictably loaded with slavish applause for Radiohead's Kid A ($7.99 today!) and nearly everything U2 and Bruce Springsteen did, touched, or thought since the turn of the millennium. Ho humbug...
--Jason Kirk
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