bizarre yet beautiful

Author Haruki Murakami's website, via foreword, where there's an ongoing discussion of the design of his latest novel Kafka on the Shore, cover design by Chip Kidd. I've never read Murakami, but I'm intrigued. If he can get John Gall *and* Chip Kidd to design his covers... well, he can't be that bad, can he? The site is gorgeous, and very in touch with all of the cover design: beautiful in a really unsettling, off kilter kind of way.