New Chip Kidd Novel
January 4, 2008
You gotta love Chip Kidd! From his official site: “The Learners is a brilliant new novel about advertising, electro-shock torture, potato chips, murder, powdered milk, suicide, shoes with buckles, crippling despair, and giant dogs. And the Holocaust.”
As if you don’t already know… Chip Kidd (born 1964) is an American author and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers. He is currently associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. Turning out jacket designs at an average of 75 a year, Kidd has designed cover concepts for books by Michael Crichton, Cormac McCarthy, Frank Miller, Anne Rice, Charles Schulz, David Sedaris, Donna Tartt, John Updike and many others.
His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys is an academic satire and coming-of-age tale about state college art students who struggle to meet the demands of sadistic art instructors. The book draws on Kidd’s real-life experiences during his art studies at Penn State.
Highly highly recommended: Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986–2006
Dwell “Design Leader” Interview Series
Interviewed by NPR’s Renee Montagne (2003)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1524664
Just plain funny (2005)
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