Chip Kidd at Bumbershoot

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2008

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chip Kidd is one of the world's best-known designers; he's designed book covers for innumerable authors. He's also a comic novelist. His most recent novel is The Learners.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Brian Townsend from Paro and Utah.
0:02.7	The Sound of Young America is an independent production
0:05.0	supported by listeners like you and me.
0:07.7	If you'd like to donate to support the show,
0:09.4	visit MaximumFun.org and click on Donate.
0:13.6	Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:16.0	I'm Jesse Thorn, and this is the Sound of Young America
0:18.9	from MaximumFun.org.
0:20.9	It's the Sound of Young America from MaximumFun.org.
0:45.6	I'm your host, Jesse Thorn.
0:47.4	A couple of weeks ago, we were at the Bumber Shoot Music
0:50.1	and Arts Festival in Seattle, Washington.
0:52.4	It was a really fantastic time, and we have the chance
0:55.3	to talk with a lot of really awesome people,
0:58.1	including the brilliant author and book designer, Chip Kid.
1:02.5	Chip Kid's two comic novels, The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners,
1:06.4	were acclaimed by both audiences and critics.
1:09.6	But he's probably best known as one of the most famous designers
1:13.5	in the country for designing a very particular sort of object,
1:17.8	books.
1:19.4	He designed many of the most iconic books of the last 20 to 25 years,
1:24.1	including Michael Criton's Jurassic Park and all of David Cedaris' books.
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