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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Chip Kidd

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Legendary book designer Chip Kidd on why his TED talk was the 19 most frightening minutes of his life.



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0:34.0

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com.

0:42.4

On this program, Debbie Milman talks with book designer Chip Kidd about why his TED Talk turned

0:47.6

into the 19 most terrifying minutes of his life and about his new book of graphic design for children.

0:53.6

Sometimes I would really question whether I was equipped to write this book,

0:58.0

because I don't have kids. I know a lot of kids. I don't like them.

1:04.1

That's not true.

1:06.4

Here's Debbie Milman.

1:08.5

People like to call Chip Kid a rock star and with good reason.

1:13.1

In his 30 years at Knapp, Kid has designed some truly iconic book covers,

1:18.7

like those boxers for David Sedaris, that dinosaur skeleton for Jurassic Park,

1:24.6

and pretty much every Murakami book jacket you've ever seen. Chip is the one book

1:30.1

designer people know by name, and now they're getting to know him for other work as well.

1:36.1

In recent years, he's authored several books, written a graphic novel, and now he's created a new

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