Chip Kidd est une figure unique dans le paysage éditorial américain. Designer culte et multiprimé, il a révolutionné l'objet-livre outre-Atlantique. En parallèle, il est également l'auteur d'une oeuvre romanesque, contemporaine et légère, encore inédite en France.
Cheese Monkeys est une plongée dans le monde des écoles d'art des années 1950, à une époque où les ordinateurs n'existaient pas encore et où les maîtres en esthétique disposaient d'une aura confinant au divin.
Winter Sorbeck est l'un de ces pontes, à la fois séducteur et sadique avec ses étudiants. Dans cette campus novel hilarante et caustique, Chip Kidd livre un premier roman sous les auspices de Martin Amis, David Lodge ou Philip Roth, aux accents de Ghost World. Une satire jubilatoire.
Comment font les designer et les publicitaires pour influencer nos choix ?
Que nous le voulions ou non, dès que nous voyons un objet, une affiche, ou tout support de communication visuelle, la façon dont nous allons le juger se détermine en un quart de seconde. On aime, on n'aime pas, on comprend, on ne comprend pas, on fait attention (ou on se détourne) on désire (ou pas), on achète (ou pas).
Et ce qui détermine cette première impression, ce n'est pas un choix rationnel, mais des critères immédiats, donc visuels.
Ce livre nous dévoile les secrets du designer le plus influent du moment, qui nous explique, par l'exemple, comment une image, soit par sa clarté, soit par son mystère, réussit à faire passer un message et à nous convaincre avant même que nous ayons eu te temps de nous en rendre compte !
A follow up to The Cheese Monkeys finds 1961 college graduate Happy embarking on his new advertising job in the middle of an eccentric team of co-workers, an effort that is marked by their struggles to land and keep promising clients and Happy's participation in a devastating Yale psychology experiment. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Chip Kidd is recognized worldwide as one of the best graphic designers working today, especially in book design. This is a much anticipated follow-up to Chip Kidd: Book One , where he not only showcases his most recent work, but demonstrates the relationship he has with some of the world''s most influential authors and sheds light into his passion for the art of book-making and most recent expansion to other media design like film posters, magazine covers, and artist collaborations. This book is a must-have for designers and all book-lovers interested in the man responsible for some of the most recognizable book covers in the world. CHIP KIDD, BOOK TWO is a work of art itself, a book on a designer described as "a design demigod," and "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design. The book will feature all of Kidd''s book designs from the years 2007 to 2017, including book cover designs for best-selling authors Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Orhan Pamuk, Augusten Burroughs, and David Sedaris, each whom share insight on Kidd''s creative process and the importance his designs have had on their work.
UPCOMING ANNIVERSARY: First there was Fantastic Four No. 1: Panel by Panel. Now, timed for the 60th anniversary of Spider-Man, award-winning designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear deconstruct the iconic issues of Amazing Fantasy no. 15 and The Amazing Spider-Man no. 1 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with cover art by Jack Kirby. The volume includes text by Kidd, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, historian Mark Evanier, and Library of Congress curator Sara Duke.MIGHTY BRAND: Marvel Comics, having celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2020, is one of the most recognizable brands worldwide.STUNNINGLY DESIGNED AND METICULOUSLY PHOTOGRAPHED: Kidd and Spear bring their award-winning design talents to this beautifully reimagined and meticulously crafted art book.NOT ONE BUT TWO COMPLETE STORIES: In August 1962 Spider-Man made his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy no. 15 and was so popular with readers that he got his own comic book in March 1963, The Amazing Spider-Man. In Spider-Man: Panel by Panel, Kidd and Spear examine both comic books, including the debut of his first super villain, the Chameleon, as well as Marvel''s first super hero team-up, which features none other than . . . the Fantastic Four.ORIGINAL ART: In 2008 an anonymous collector came forward with the original art for all 11 pages of the very first appearance of Spider-Man from Amazing Fantasy no. 15 and donated them to the Library of Congress (LOC). In addition to reprinting the finished comic, Spider-Man: Panel by Panel includes all 11 pages of the original art, as well as close-up details and handwritten notes between Lee and Ditko from the margins of the pages, which have never been reproduced before. Duke, comics curator at the LOC, has contributed an essay on this unprecedented acquisition and guides readers through the original art, panel by panel and page by page.
En 2005, le réalisateur Christopher Nolan révolutionnait la légende de l'homme chauve-souris grâce à Batman Begins. Suivront The Dark Knight, en 2008 avec le fameux Joker puis, cette année, la guerre totale à Gotham avec The Dark Knight Rises.
Dans les coulisses de la trilogie The Dark Knight dévoile les dessous de ces trois films hors du commun. Basé sur une série d'interviews détaillées avec Nolan, mais aussi avec toute l'équipe des films - et notamment les co-scénaristes David S. Goyer et Jonathan Nolan, le caméraman Wally Pfister, et bien d'autres - cet ouvrage collector recèle aussi des centaines de photos et de documents de tournages rares ou inédits.
The author of The Official Preppy Handbook presents a wryly whimsical analysis of how the "preppy" generation is adapting to present-day challenges ranging from the Internet and cell phones to political correctness and reality television. Reprint.
