Chip Kidd Quotes
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I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.
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Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a…
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Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
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A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
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Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or…
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Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
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Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
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Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...
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I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to…
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I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong…
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Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what…
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Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar,…
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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 another.
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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, without…
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I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a…
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