Chip Kidd: 7 books

A fun, playful look at the importance of first impressions—in design and in life—from acclaimed book designer Chip Kidd. First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how we feel. In Judge This, renowned designer...

A hilarious debut novel that could only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man. "Um...so what exactly is a Cheese Monkey?" Good question. But strictly off-limits. We can tell you that The Cheese Monkeys is a witty and effervescent coming-of-age novel about headless waterfowl, fake...

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...

Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s his groundbreaking comic book series Eightball defined indie culture with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. With each successive graphic...

Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be -- well, happy. But when he's assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting...

你的第一印象是什麼 ！or？ **　　※超人氣TED演講影片點閱破一百五十萬次 　　※《連線雜誌》、《芝加哥論壇報》、美國公共廣播電台NPR強力推薦** 　　第一印象，是我們評斷世界的關鍵，也是我們被評價的第一關。 　　第一印象，是我們認識朋友、接觸商品、體驗娛樂的第一把鑰匙。浸淫在視覺文化裡，我們的心智自然會對眼目所及一切人事物立即反應與判斷。下判斷並不是重點，重點是判斷的依據，是智力？同理心？還是好奇心？ 　　曾獲美國設計界最高榮譽國家傳播設計奬（National...

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook, comes True Prep, which 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.