London, London 2011 | Program, Speakers | Press Team, 24 October 2011

An Hour of Impeccable Comic Timing, Dramatic Pauses and Eyebrow Raises

After some introduction and teasing from Erik Spiekermann, Chip Kidd stepped on stage. He thanked Erik, and announced that “You make me feel like Lady Gaga, only with bigger breasts.” What was to follow was an hour of impeccable comic timing, dramatic pauses and eyebrow raises, he had the audience in stitches with barely a handful of words.

London, London 2011 | Program, Speakers | Press Team, 23 October 2011

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.

London, London 2011 | Speakers | Blog Team, 22 October 2011

Design Legends

Chip Kidd and Neville Brody spotted at TYPO London 2011.

London, London 2011 | Speakers | Blog Team, 22 October 2011

Call minutes: Robin Richmond, Lawrence Weiner

Conference Director Robin Richmond sharing deep thoughts with Lawrence Weiner.

London, London 2011 | Speakers, Talks | Blog Team, 22 October 2011

Neville Brody: Education and Experimentation

Friday closed with words from a design anarchist, Neville Brody. Few designers have divided opinion like Brody, but then fewer can claim his status, widely regarded as one of Britains most influential graphic designers. He walked the audience through numerous projects, both commercial and personal, but spent most time reminiscing about Fuse, the publication he founded in 1991, and 20 years later he is about to publish it’s 20th (and final) edition.

London, London 2011 | Speakers, Talks | Press Team, 22 October 2011

Lawrence Weiner: An Artist To The Core

Lawrence Weiner spent most of his presentation talking about his life and work and also how he didn’t understand why he had been asked to attend the conference. He showed only a 5 minute silent film saying he was too intimidated by the presentations he had seen on Thursday to attempt his own. He is an artist to the core but is in awe of the work of some of the other speakers and once had the revelation “I can be friends with designers”.

London, London 2011 | Attendee Spotlight, Speakers | Blog Team, 21 October 2011

Lawrence Weiner

will give his speech at 4 today. He left the Bronx aged 15 and never returned.

Berlin, London | Speakers | Sabine Gruppe, 19 August 2011

TYPO speeches that moved us: Wim Crouwel – After the Alphabet

At TYPO 1996 “Idea vs. Ideology”, typography had reached the climax of breaking free from conventions. It was the time of Ray Gun, Fuse and Dirty Faces.

Berlin, London | Speakers | Sabine Gruppe, 12 August 2011

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.

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