David Byrne & Brian Eno’s new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today has a great Sagmeister-designed website that launched recently offering a free download of the single “Strange Overtones.” I’ve got it playing now, and I’m loving it (thx Kevin).

“If I can coin a maxim of my own, one thing I have learned in my life so far is that ‘A person’s fame has as much to say about us as it does about the person we admire.’” This is the kicker to Rick Poynor’s thoughtful, nuanced review of Stefan Sagmeister’s new monograph. Poynor carefully weaves his way through a minefield, celebrating the things he clearly likes about Sagmeister’s work without pulling punches or trying to wrap the entirety of the design profession around this highly particular book. In the process, I think Poynor delivers a pretty compelling “State of the Union” about where we’re at and how we got here. Well worth a read as a piece of risky, honest design criticism.

NYT’s T Magazine is making graphic design synonymous with men’s fashion. This weekend it included three graphic-design-friendly articles in its men’s fashion roundup, with a profile of Gert Jonkers and Jop Van Bennekom of Fantastic Man and Butt Magazine, an “object lesson” by Alice Rawsthorn about “new ugly” magazines Super Super and 032c, and a great write-up on the man behind every design dude’s favorite fashion label, A.P.C. Heck, even Stefan Sagmeister blogged for T during his show at Deitch. Fierce!