I'm just commenting because I want to use this icon.

I'm just commenting because i want to use the word 'canny'

I'm just commenting.

I'm just.

just a sex spy?

No, more like a rhinestone cowboy. Or a SPACE cowboy. Where have all the cowboys gone?

idk, Adam Ant shot them all in shoot outs?

But I liked your design! You don't give yourself much credit when you design things. Oh, Momus. :(

I much prefer your original design to any of Kayes' stuff. There's something about Kayes' stuff that's just over-polished. Like he's on the the acceptable side of experimental.

There's an undeniable crudeness about your designs, but don't feel embarrassed by that; crudeness is also a quality with it's own distinctness. It's a quality a lot of graphic designers are scared of because it's never been popular commercially and many people will just flat out refuse to accept it on the grounds it's "bad design".

Have more faith in your abilities. I'd personally like to see you design your own cover.

Momus, with all your writing gigs of late, do you now consider yourself more of a writer than a recording artist?

It's all storytelling, really, innit?

who shot the cover photo for "tender pervert" and whose idea was it? the trees have been blooming in new york recently and i've recalled that image over and over while walking at night.

Thomi Wroblewski shot the photo in April of 1988 in Hyde Park, but it was my idea. I was deep in my Mishima phase. I remember being anxious thinking the blossom would fall before Thomi was ready to shoot the pictures (it took a week or so set up). And I remember thinking that, at 28, I was already getting wrinkly and that flash at night would be a way to disguise that!

The pose was something I'd seen Picasso doing in a photo. He was impersonating a pagan demon, or perhaps a bull.

Thomi then designed the sleeve. It's one I still like a lot.

picasso was only copying the guy from AC/DC.
it is a great cover though.

i kind of agree with kuma above this guy's playing rather safe , like he's eaten up all those great design books that were around in the 90s, while what you do is open to inspired mistakes and accidents(auch)and amateur fervor.

It's a bit soon for you to be praising accidents, isn't it, Alin?

The works also require more energy to experience.
It doesn't just look pretty, but has some definite intent.
Is that what you mean by energy?

"and also to get a generic look-and-feel (choose typefaces and so on) for the series he's currently putting together for Sternberg"

Not a big criticism but you mean 'establishing a brand' rather than a 'generic look-and-feel' which sounds a bit, well 'generic' suggests something bland / negative even.

Great work by the way. It reminds me of the amazing posters Kippenberger used to design for his shows. I love them - for an artist he really understood design, which is actually quite rare.

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/davis/davis3-10-12.asp

Ha, well, "establishing a brand" also sounds negative in its way -- too capitalistic!

I suppose I meant they were... designing! I should just have said that.

Nice Kippenberg posters -- he likes blocks of primary colour too!