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Published May 10, 2011

Chip Kidd at The Comic Archive

Last week I linked to a short video of Chip Kidd talking about growing up with comics. Now, The Comic Archive have posted a few more segments from that interview in which Chip discusses his book design and work in comics.

In this first clip, Chip talks about his decision to pursue graphic design in college and the influence of comic books on his work:

In this longer segment, he discusses coming to New York, being hired by Knopf as a cover designer, and returning to comics through DC Comics and Pantheon:

And this may just be for the fan-boys, but in this final clip Chip shows off his specially commissioned one-of-a-kind collections of original artwork:

#Envy

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Published May 5, 2011

Chip Kidd, Growing Up With Comics

Chip Kidd, designer, writer, and art director at Knopf, talks about his childhood love of comic books with The Comics Archive:

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Published May 5, 2011

Helvetica in Motion

Helvetica in Motion by Montreal-based multimedia company 333 is another neat typography-inspired video discovered via Nice Type:

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Published May 4, 2011

Letterpress | Naomie Ross

Here’s a nice short instructional video about printing with letterpress by New York-based designer Naomie Ross:

(via Nice Type)

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Published May 4, 2011

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares and published by Phaidon is a visual overview of the evolution of the modern office chair and detailing the most innovative chairs designed and built from the 1840s to the present.

In this video, Olivares talks about the book and the importance of the office chair in design history:

(via Daily Icon)

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Published May 3, 2011

Flip It Back

The always dependable Fresh Signals alerted me to this French video for a new horizontal book format:

This is apparently the “flipback” format that had The Guardian so hot under the collar a few weeks ago. Please feel free to drop me a line or leave a comment if you have more details about it.

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Published April 28, 2011

Wim Crouwel | Dutch Profiles

Designer Wim Crouwel talks about his career, his use of the grid and the creation of the New Alphabet in this interesting 10-minute documentary for Dutch Profiles:

Dutch Profiles is a series of short documentaries about architects, graphic, product and fashion designers working in the Netherlands. The series is new to me, but past films that caught my eye include profiles of architect Rem Koolhaas, graphic designer Irma Boom, and cartoonist Joost Swarte.

(via iloveboeken)

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Published April 28, 2011

Making Businessweek

Here’s a neat (if slightly irreverent) time-lapse video showing Businessweek magazine being put together over the course of a week:

And Bonus points to the @bizweeksgraphics team for using French Disko by Stereolab as the soundtrack.

(via Kottke)

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Published April 27, 2011

If You Haven’t Saved By Now… | Lauren Panepinto

Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director at Orbit, whose Making of a Book Cover video was such a hit last year, has made a new video about creating the graphic optical illusions she originally intended to use in the design of the Simon Morden’s Equations of Life trilogy:

The no less stunning final covers actually look like this:

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Published April 19, 2011

100 x 100: IBM Centennial Film

Moving chronologically from the oldest person to the youngest, 100 x 100 features one hundred people presenting the achievements of IBM recorded in the year they were born. The film gives a brief history of the company and features — as you might expect for the company that worked so closely with Paul Rand — some lovely typography:

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Published April 19, 2011

On Being Wrong

“Wrongologist” Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, makes the case for embracing our fallibility at TED:

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Published April 19, 2011

Symmetry | Radiolab

WNYC’s Radiolab searches for order and balance in the world around us, and asks how symmetry shapes our existence — from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror:

RADIOLAB: Desperately Seeking Symmetry

The episode is accompanied by this lovely video by Everynone:

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