Chip Kidd
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chip Kidd's witty and effervescent coming-of-age novel can only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man. It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the skillful eye and hand, and our narrator at State U is determined to major in Art. After several risible false starts, he ends up by accident in a new class called "Introduction to Graphic Design," taught by the enigmatic professor/guru Winter Sorbeck—equal parts genius, seducer,...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kids love to express themselves, and are designers by nature - whether making posters for school, deciding what to hang in their rooms, or creating personalized notebook covers. Go, by the award-winning graphic designer Chip Kidd, is a stunning introduction to the ways in which a designer communicates his or her ideas to the world. It's written and designed just for those curious kids, not to mention their savvy parents, who want to learn the secret...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 31 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in "only what's necessary." For fifty years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Robert Thompson, professor...
4) Judge this
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First TED Books Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
125 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how strongly we feel. This is especially true when it comes to design. And design is all around us, secretly shaping our world in ways we rarely recognise. Except if you yourself are a designer, like Chip Kidd. In Judge This, the reader travels through a day in the life of renowned designer Chip Kidd as he takes in first impressions...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
1961 college graduate Happy embarks on his new advertising job with an eccentric team of co-workers, an effort that is marked by their struggles to land promising clients and Happy's participation in a devastating Yale psychology experiment.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
248 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Birnbach looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapts to the new order of the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV and ... polar fleece.
Author
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed., Trade ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
This volume is a companion reference to the comic book series Watchmen. The series was originally published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. The Watchmen comic series depicts an alternate history where superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s, helping the United States to win the Vietnam War. The author (and co-creator of the Watchmen comics) gives his own account of...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen years after his Eisner Award-winning, nationally best-selling Mythology, here is the long-awaited Marvel Comics counterpart, a retrospective celebration of the other half of the comics galaxy that is currently ruling the world: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, the Avengers, the X-Men, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Fantastic Four. "Alex is a legend. Even if you don't consider yourself a comics-head,...
