I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was … - Chip Kidd

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Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

Chip Kidd

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

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Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

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Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

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If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

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Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

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Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

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