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Join NOW!Kathleen Hanna contributed a cover to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” for the upcoming film Maggie’s Plan, Consequence of Sound reports. Apparently Hanna also makes a cameo in the film, leading some therapeutic tribal chants. Check out the cover after the jump.
...moreAn important part of Prince’s artistic image has relied upon mystery—the mystery of his genius is comprised of equal parts sexuality and technical prowess. But there is another component to it, and that is Prince’s ironclad policy against the free distribution of his music. For years, online searches for his music yielded nothing. So you […]
...moreCovers not only stage an interaction between word and image, printed matter and visual representation, they also broker various connections among reader, designer, editor, publisher, and bookseller. Using Peter Mendelsund’s amazing books Cover and What We See When We Read as a jumping-off point, and invoking covers of books like Catcher in the Rye and The […]
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Writer, designer, and thinker Peter Mendelsund talks about book design, the tangled process of reading and perception, and his two new books, Cover and What We See When We Read.
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