Peace is Unhealthy for Design and Other Non-Living Things

Most Baby Boomers are dorks. That they set themselves up in opposition to the Greatest Generation as The Coolest Generation only makes them dorkier. They invented the New Age aesthetic. They wore top hats. They literally sported rose colored glasses.  Further evidence: the shitty ‘classic album art’ that they’re always going on about. Anything The Beatles did on the cover of Sgt. Pepper had been done before, and better, in Eastern Europe at the turn of the century. I’m sorry you mistakenly think it’s “revolutionary”. And Pink Floyd art is what the kids refer to nowadays as “retarded”.

But the Boomers weren’t all dorks. The best album covers to come out of Post-War America? This series by awesome, non-dork Baby Boomer/designer Rudolph de Harak. Yeah, he’s American – a California-born, New York-based, now dead, Modernist designer who came up with some fucking awesome designs for album, book, and magazine covers. For a short time he was even the art director ofSeventeen.

Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities

The latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly focuses on literary representations of dis(-)appearing (post)colonial cities across the Eurasian continent. Click here to read the introduction.