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Good Is Dead.
Published by grey September 29th, 2005 in posts Tags: chip kidd, graphic design, greybean | design, web design, work.Okay, so, the guy’s my hero, at least in my chosen field (as he is for a lot of people who do what I do). He’s the most famous graphic designer in the world. USA Today called him “the closest thing to a rock star” in the industry. He’s written a novel that was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 2001, the rights to which he recently sold to a Hollywood studio to be made into a movie, and he’s currently working on a new novel. He designed the covers for all of the recent Sin City graphic novel reprint editions. He’s edited and contributed to innumerable books about the DC Comics universe, and he’s written an actual Superman-Batman strip, which was painted by Alex Ross. He’s got a monograph of his work coming out in a month, and he’s speaking at AIGA tonight in Chicago.
And by some incredible happenstance, I’m working with/for him on his first official website. And it’s just gone live today. It’s a limited, preview-type site at this point, but it’s there. And it’s my work. Go check it out.
I heard Chip’s talk at the AIGA Chicago event. It was great. Very entertaining.
How did Chip’s mom make such great Batman and Robin costumes in the late 60’s? Was she a professional costume designer!?
The goodisdead.com site looks very cool. I like that it’s only two pages. I’ve seen it all.
And, I might add, according to Ben Greiner, Chip mentioned the site in his speech in Chicago. Awesome.