Chip Kidd Bücher

Mit einem Comicstrip in einer amerikanischen Tageszeitung am 2. Oktober 1950 fing alles an. In dem halben Jahrhundert seiner Schaffenszeit schrieb und illustrierte Charles M. Schulz den wohl berühmtesten Comicstrip der Welt: die Peanuts .17.897 dieser Strips wurden veröffentlicht. Längst sind die kleinen Charakterköpfe zu Helden der Popkultur avanciert und begeistern mit ihren Weisheiten und Alltagsabenteuern Millionen von Lesern. Für dieses Buch wurden Schätze aus dem großen Fundus des Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center und der Familie Schulz zusammengetragen und abfotografiert - darunter viele bisher unveröffentlichte Strips.

Als Gotham im Zuge einer großangelegten Neubauwelle modernisiert werden soll, zieht dies die renommiertesten Architekten der Welt in die Stadt. Auch Bruce Wayne spielt dabei als Vorsitzender der Baukommission eine wichtige Schlüsselrolle. Doch eine plötzliche Serie bizarrer Unfälle im Zusammenhang mit den Neubauten erfordert auch Batmans Eingreifen … Das lang erwartete Werk des berühmten Autors und Designers Chip Kidd!

Was ist gutes Design? Der erste Eindruck zählt immer: Das gilt nicht nur generell im Leben, sondern bestimmt unseren Alltag bis ins Detail. Der bekannte Graphiker und gefeierte Buchgestalter Chip Kidd verbringt mit uns einen Tag, an dem er alles, was ihm begegnet, fotografiert und auf den ersten Eidnruck hin überprüft: von der Zeitung über das U-Bahn-Ticket bis zum Smartphone und zum Schokoriegel. Ob gut, schlecht oder absurd gestaltet, Kidd enthüllt die Geheimnisse des Designs, wie es nur jemand mit geschultem Auge vermag. Ein humorvoller und spielerischer Blick auf die immense Bedeutung erster Eindrücke und wie sie unsere Sicht der Welt beeinflussen.

Dave Gibbons, Mitbegründer von Watchmen, beschreibt die Entstehung des Comic-Meisterwerks und zeigt zahlreiche seltene, unveröffentlichte Illustrationen. Er beleuchtet verworfene Konzepte, Symbolik und Details, wodurch dieses Buch ein unverzichtbarer Begleitband zur Watchmen-Graphic Novel wird.

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 50 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 of popular culture at Syracuse University. For Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What's Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work--much of which has never been seen before.

Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For 50 years, he wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. Renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Only What's Necessary reproduces the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, and features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work-much of which has never been seen before

Shazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn't long before a variety of merchandise was licensed--secret decoders, figurines, buttons, paper rockets, tin toys, puzzles, costumes--and a fan club was created to keep up with the demand. These collectibles now sell for outrageous prices on eBay and in comic book stores and conventions. Seventy years later, an unprecedented assortment of these artifacts are gathered together by award-winning writer/designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geo Spear. Join Kidd, Spear, and the World's Mightiest Mortal in this first, fully authorized celebration of ephemera, artwork, and rare, one-of-a-kind toys, and recapture the magic that was Shazam

Opens with the promise that everyone is a designer, and uses every page to show the reader why that is. In this title, each spread explains and demonstrates a critical introductory graphic design concept, the same ones taught in the first year of art school: form, size, scale, repetition and pattern, colour, typography, and more.

The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is The Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, has given an exclusive interview for our book. More than just a dazzling novelty, Bat-Manga is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most beloved and timeless figures in comics.

Set in the summer of 1961, the story follows Happy, a fresh college graduate who begins his career as a graphic designer at a quirky Connecticut advertising agency. His seemingly joyful life takes a dark turn when he answers an ad for a Yale Psychology experiment, leading to a profound and painful self-examination of his past and the nature of human cruelty. Chip Kidd's sharp, witty prose intertwines themes of identity and morality, showcasing his talent not only in design but also in storytelling.