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Chip’s Q&A at TYPO Berlin: Chip’s appearance at TYPO Berlin 2009 included a question and answer session which we present to you here, above.
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Me, the Reluctant Illustrator.
So I was hired by genius art director Nicholas Blechman to do the cover for the June 28 New York Times Book Review, for a treatise on the history of the depiction of the Almighty Himself, The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright. The review, by Robert Bloom, starts out with the sentence ‘God has mellowed.’ It goes on to chronicle how this came about and that He was depicted as much sterner and meaner in the ancient Hebrew Bible.
I instantly got the idea: the hand of God about to throw a lightning bolt down at Earth from on high, but it would be a plush stuffed toy version…
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Chip Bids John Updike Adieu
Editors and writers remember John Updike over at Slate Magazine, and Chip is among them (and so, for that matter, is J. D. McClatchy):
Working with and for Mr. Updike was an honor and a treat, and because he was so prolific—not only in quantity but in type of book (novel, poems, essays, criticism)—there were many different kinds of design scenarios. One extreme was his habit of drawing up by hand the entire cover layout, including type specs, which I or another of us in the art department would then execute. On the other end of the spectrum, he would occasionally let us do whatever we wanted. And then everything in between.
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The BDR on Being Digital
Joseph Sullivan over at The Book Design Review covers, so to speak, an oldie but a goody from Chip’s portfolio (and one that hasn’t yet made it into the Work. section of this site, but never fear: it’ll be there soon enough), Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital (1995):
I was lucky enough to live in London in ’94 and ’95, and I picked this up in a bookshop in Camden Town. I had no idea who Chip Kidd was, and only a marginal interest in graphic design at that point. But even I knew, back in ’95, that this was a pretty sexy way to package ideas.