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Midweek Miscellany

November 16, 2011

Book Sniffing – Six writers on their book collecting habits, including Gary Shteyngart: I’m big on sniffing books. The old Soviet ones really have this strong smell, reminding me, for some reason, of tomato soup in a cheap Soviet cafeteria. Fear of a Blank Canvas – Book designer Chip Kidd interviewed at Azure Magazine: If I’m designing a [...]

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Alan Hollinghurst on WNYC

October 24, 2011

The Man Booker Prize–winning author Alan Hollinghurst talks about his latest novel, The Stranger’s Child, with Leonard Lopate on WNYC: Pictured above is the UK cover. The US cover, which I’m going to guess was designed by Chip Kidd, is below:

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Chip Kidd on 1Q84

October 20, 2011

Associate art director Chip Kidd talks about designing the cover and interior artwork for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84:

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Midweek Miscellany

October 5, 2011

Comic Book Commodities — Cartoonist and illustrator Dave Gibbons, best known for his work on Watchmen with Alan Moore, interviewed at The Huffington Post: [E]conomically comics are in a really difficult place because the monthly American comic books which are maybe 22 pages of story, now can cost $4, which is £3, and that is [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

September 28, 2011

Peter Mendelsund chats with Chip Kidd about his office for the redesigned From The Desk Of: I’ve always been a ‘nester’, I think most designers are. The difference now between my office and my bedroom as a child is the dearth of KISS posters (I mean NOW, not then). (Frankly I’m surprised the universe didn’t collapse [...]

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