Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness -… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“We are the Western World. We read, see, think. Left. To. Right. We can't help it. ..The problem with Top to Bottom is that… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
