What Nick Cave Taught Me About Design

Exploring the parallels between music and design

Sue Walsh
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7 min readAug 28, 2019

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Nick Cave at a concert
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I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

—Nick Cave

InIn 1994, I saw Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform at Lollapalooza for the first time. I was 15. The…

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Sue Walsh
Modus
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Creative Director at SYPartners, Faculty at School of Visual Arts. Formerly Senior Art Director at Milton Glaser Incorporated.