Here’s an under 5-minute video interview with Chip Kidd. {via Galleycat}
I haven’t looked up all the details, but it look slike it was produced by Dwell magazine. If you watch through the end there is video of Kidd singing with his band is Artbreak.
Hope the buffering doesn’t suck for you! I had to let it all load and then come back to it.
I ran across these tonight and snagged a couple for my screens. The quality is typographically top notch and the site (i love typography, which is always fun to check out) encourages you to make your own and send in. Share the love!
The NY Times ran an article on blogs/sites moving into printed products. Pretty interesting though nothing really new is mentioned. They don’t even mention the word “blook“. Which is a book mainly consisting of blog posts (and one word I hope never makes it into the dictionary). Basically some marketing folks look at a blog’s traffic stats and see dollar signs, but over the last two years, publishers have realized that a high number of unique visitors does not always translate into dollars.
Though it seems that comics and illustrations do seem to do better than fiction and narratives.
Basically, Frank Warren (of Post Secret fame) summed-up the whole business model when he is quoted in the article saying “I don’t think there is a formula,” Mr. Warren said. “There is a bit of magic there that can’t be replicated.”
I should have posted this a couple of weeks ago, because by now I think we’re all listed out. But it’s new to me and I thought it a pretty cool thing. It’s a site and meta-list that’s new to me. It lists all of the “best of 2007” lists on the web. It’s constantly changing.
As of this post, 66 “best books of 2007” lists, have been submitted. But there are whole bunch more topics to read through too. The best food blogs was another of my favorite categories.