On Thursday, June 20th, at 6:30 PM in New York City, the Designer Chip Kidd will be a Special LIVE Guest on the “PERSON PLACE THING” Podcast! This is a LIVE EVENT (Starts 6:30 PM, but get there early!) where the Host of the Podcast, Randy Cohen, will interview Chip Kidd about his life, career, and the State of Graphic Design today. They will also be discussing a lot about the “Influences of Punk Rock on Graphics”. WHERE: MAD Museum […]
“Fashion Icon”, Ha Ha! Recently, over at the Always Amazing ROWING BLAZERS Website, they did a profile story on Chip Kidd. Yeah, they even did an extensive interview which you can READ HERE. The basic premise of the article is a short history of Chip’s Life & Career. Plus, there’s a ton of really nice photos so please be sure to check it out! ————————————————————————————————————
Chip Kidd was a recent guest on Lisa Birnbach’s Five Things With Lisa Birnbach Podcast. These two have a history together considering that they both collaborated on a book back in 2010 titled, TRUE PREP (Published by Random House). This was a sort of a sequel of Birnbach’s ultra-classic book, “The Official Preppy Handbook” that was published in the 1980’s. So, I guess you can say their book was really a more updated modern version of the classic book. Here […]
In the world of comic book artists, Alex Ross is a superhero. He’s been called the Norman Rockwell of comics and has put his imprint on Superman, Spiderman, Aquaman and Captain America. Ross wields his superpower in his paintbrush and he allowed “CBS This Morning: Saturday” co-host Anthony Mason into his secret lair to discuss his love of Comic Book Characters, his Artwork Process, and his new book, Marvelocity (Pantheon). ————————————————————————————————————
Here’s a fun thing to share. Chip Kidd was recently interviewed by the USA Today Reporter, Susannah Hutcheson, and everything went really well. HA! Okay, all kidding aside, she asked some really good questions. Here’s a Link to check it out, Just CLICK HERE! ————————————————————————————————————
Here’s an older interview with CHIP KIDD that was featured on the VICE Magazine Website around the time of the publication of his “BAT-MANGA! THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN” Book that was released in 2008 featuring the 1960’s manga artwork of Jiro Kuwata. In the interview, Chip Kidd covers some issues with Graphic Design & his total obsession with BATMAN! To read the entire article, just CLICK HERE! ————————————————————————————————————
The COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND (CBLDF) PODCAST recently spoke with the Cartoonist, Robert Sikorak, about his latest book, “The Unquotable Trump”, from Drawn & Quarterly. They discuss his career, his thoughts on activism, the variety of places he’s been published, and the wide world of literature and comics he has managed to mush together, re-contextualizing both in the process. Topics include: Hostess Twinkies, X-ray specs, Picasso, and RAW! For More Information About CBLDF, Just CLICK HERE! ————————————————————————————————————
The Art Director and Graphic Designer Chip Kidd recently sat down with the reporters over at the BLACK HOOK Japanese Culture Blog to discuss some of his current design work. Since the website comes from Japan their main focus was what is it like to work the Japanese Author, Haruki Murakami (The Strange Library & Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years of Pilgrimage) and Manga Artist, Gengoroh Tagame (The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame). They also discuss Chip Kidd’s “Batman Book” on the Art […]
The Dumb Questions For Smart Designers website finally got ahold of Chip Kidd and, like their name says, they asked him some really stupid questions. Ha Ha, actually it was a lot of fun and most of the questions were kind of clever. You can read that INTERVIEW right here!
It’s official! The TOKYO TOY GUY 2 Movie, Special Edition, will be screened in Abu Dhabi on Oct 28th! For the people unfamiliar with this line of movies it’s a very serious series of documentary films covering the joy of collecting Vintage Batman Toys with an emphasis on the toys made in the country of Japan in the 1960’s. TOKYO TOY GUY 2 features an in-depth interview about Chip Kidd’s visit to Nakano Broadway where Chip Kidd and the Director, Yuji Ueda, got to […]