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Subscribeartbreak. at Dixon Place, December 29, 2009. Film by Gary Nadeau.
LATEST JOURNAL ENTRY
My Rolling Stone Writing Debut!
November 8, 2010. No comments.Hey kids! Two weeks ago I got a truly sweet assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview Mr. Garry Trudeau on the 40th anniversary of Doonesbury. I was flattered, amazed, and more than a little scared to death.
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The Learners Paperback in The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review. March 13, 2009.The paperback edition of The Learners (available now
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Chip Bids John Updike Adieu
Slate Magazine. January 29, 2009.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
The Book Design Review. December 10, 2008.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.