Flashback Tuesday: Chip Kidd, TYPO London 2011
Chip Kidd, who we’ve had the honor of presenting multiple times at TYPO Berlin, San Francisco and London, speaks about his 2011 Mantra, Jurassic Park, Lady Gagas breasts and shitty typography.
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Chip Kidd – You Could Win a Rabbit
In 2005 Chip Kidd came to TYPO Berlin »Change« and showed many book-cover drafts and the development up to the finished product in an entertaining speech. Surely, one highlight of the speech was the story about the creative freedom, which was given to him with the words »blue sky, blue sky« in a briefing for an Adobe-Design-Competition poster.
Chip Kidd
The history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after.
Time Out New York, Nov. 2005
Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. In 1997 he received the International Center of Photography’s award for Use of Photography in Graphic Design, and he is a regular contributor of visual commentary to the Op-ed page of the New York Times. In the fall of 2006, Kidd’s work will be included in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s third National Design Triennial.
Mr Kidd has also written about graphic design and popular culture for McSeeney’s, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The New York Post, ID and Print. His first book as author and designer, Batman Collected (Bulfinch, 1996), was given the Design Distinction award from ID magazine, and his second, Batman Animated (HarperCollins, Fall 1998) garnered two of the Comics Industry’s Eisner Awards, as did his 2002 book Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz.
As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon (a subsidiary of Knopf) Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including: Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor and Alex Ross.
A comprehensive monograph of Kidd’s work, CHIP KIDD: BOOK ONE was published in October of 2005. The introduction is by John Updike and the 400 page book features over 800 works, spanning two decades, from 1986 through 2006. It’s first edition sold out a week before publication and it has since gone into two consecutive re-printings.
The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd’s first novel, was published by Scribner in Fall of 2001 and was a national bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is currently at work on his second novel, tentatively titled The Learners. Both books use the design process as a means to construct a compelling narrative.
Chip Kidd’s New Mantra
OK this is the one everyone has been waiting for. Chip Kidd. He is in the same hero category as Neville Brody, David Carson and Jonathan Barnbrook – but in my opinion he is in a league of his own. There doesn’t seem to be the usual love him or hate him divide with Chip. You just love him.
Chip Kidd …
… spotted in the crowd
TYPO speeches that moved us: Chip Kidd – Closely guarded secret (2006)
Chip Kidd presents his very special view on superheroes, why giving a title to a lecture is as superfluous as naming one’s toes and why one should live every day of our life as if one was infected with a contagious disease “that turns everyone one bites, into a zombie”. Will the title of Chip’s speech at TYPO London 2011 be another closely guarded secret? We are not in the know …
Chip Kidd
Writer / Graphic Designer (New York, New York)
The history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after.
Time Out New York, Nov. 2005
Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. In 1997 he received the International Center of Photography's award for Use of Photography in Graphic Design, and he is a regular contributor of visual commentary to the Op-ed page of the New York Times. In the fall of 2006, Kidd's work will be included in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's third National Design Triennial.
Mr Kidd has also written about graphic design and popular culture for McSeeney's, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The New York Post, ID and Print. His first book as author and designer, Batman Collected (Bulfinch, 1996), was given the Design Distinction award from ID magazine, and his second, Batman Animated (HarperCollins, Fall 1998) garnered two of the Comics Industry's Eisner Awards, as did his 2002 book Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz.
As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon (a subsidiary of Knopf) Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including: Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor and Alex Ross.
A comprehensive monograph of Kidd's work, CHIP KIDD: BOOK ONE was published in October of 2005. The introduction is by John Updike and the 400 page book features over 800 works, spanning two decades, from 1986 through 2006. It's first edition sold out a week before publication and it has since gone into two consecutive re-printings.
The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd's first novel, was published by Scribner in Fall of 2001 and was a national bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is currently at work on his second novel, tentatively titled The Learners. Both books use the design process as a means to construct a compelling narrative.
YouTube-Video: Chip Kidd on TYPOstage
Das war Chip Kidd im Q & A auf der TYPOstage:
Süddeutsche-Interview mit Chip Kidd
»Der Grafikdesigner Chip Kidd war dieses Jahr der Stargast auf Europas größter Designkonferenz Typo Berlin. Kidd arbeitet seit 24 Jahren für den New Yorker Verlag Random House. In den USA gelten seine Buchumschläge als Meilensteine des Designs.« Weiter bei sueddeutsche.de …
Chip Kidd: B,IDKYL
Eine halbe Minute zu spät in der TYPOhall, die einzigen freien Plätze finden sich auf einer der Treppen oder in den Seitegängen. Die ersten Worte, die ich höre, sind “Penis” und “Erection”. Im Pogrammheft stand etwas von Buchcovergestaltung. Tja, alles anders: Chip Kidd, das dritte Mal auf der TYPO und der heiß ersehnte Speaker des Abends. Der Mann mit der Harry Potter-Nickelbrille schafft es, die Zuschauer innerhalb einer Stunde auf humoristische, selbstironische Weise in seinen Bann zu ziehen und ganz nebenbei die Bandbreite seines ganzen grafischen Könnens zu präsentieren.
10 things you didn’t know about Debbie Millman’s podcast ‘Design Matters’ until TYPO Berlin.
While it was Debbie Millman’s first time on the TYPO stage, designers from around the world could recognise her voice in an instant. She’s been podcasting for over a decade, interviewing her close friends and creative idols to learn about how people became who they are, and why.
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By Gabby Lord
In English, please – Sechs Fragen an die TYPO-Dolmetscherin
Mit den Besuchern und Besucherinnen der TYPO Berlin bewegen sich etwa 30 Nationen durch die Räume des HKW. Entsprechend groß ist der Bedarf nach den bequemen Kopfhörer-Sets, auf deren Kanal freundliche Stimmen simultan dolmetschen. Seit 22 Jahren – als die TYPO noch FUSE hieß – ist Lilian-Astrid Geese eine dieser Stimmen. Zeit, ihr ein paar Fragen zu stellen!
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Von Jenna Gesse
Interview mit Jürgen Siebert, dem Programmdirektor der TYPO Konferenzen
Ich besuche Jürgen Siebert, um mit ihm über die TYPO Berlin 2017 mit dem Thema »wanderlust« zu sprechen. Mal sehen, was er mir verraten kann. Welche Sprecher werden erwartet? Ob und wie wird das Konzept der Bühne »Beyond Design« nächstes Jahr fortgeführt? Wie geht es weiter mit den TYPO Labs? Aber auch Anekdoten aus bald 22 Jahren TYPO Berlin möchte ich ihm entlocken.