Almost Genius: Designers on How Kurt Cobain Should Be Immortalized

Courtney Love couldn't have come up with anything weirder.

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Those of us in the throes of teen angst when Kurt Cobain shot himself in 1994 remember his death as The Defining Moment of the Era.
It was The Day We Lost Our Innocence. Kurt Cobain: our flannel Kennedy.

It was probably inevitable, then, that a few art-minded representatives of this shattered generation would concoct something
like the "retroactive urn for Kurt Cobain." It's both an urn and a
cultural memento, the sort of thing in...