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Design writing from someone who should know better.
Our Band Could Be Your Typography Lesson
Young. Broke. Curious. Bored. Every designer has an origin story. Mine starts with R.E.M. album cover typography and a Sunday morning ritual with the Omaha World-Herald. I was 13, broke, and completely without allowance, so the closest I got to actually owning records was leafing through inky...
Ranking R.E.M.’s Album Covers Aesthetically 1982-2011
I was inspired by a friend’s Facebook thread about underrated late-period R.E.M. albums to create a ranking of the band’s album covers. Aesthetically. A ranking covering all their studio recordings from 1982 to their breakup in 2011. The ranking doesn’t include compilations or live albums,...