For the artist, for the graduate, for the creative soul, for the person looking around at their life and wondering "now what?" - this is a beautiful little book.
Neil Gaiman's words are beautiful - some of the wisest, smartest, most clever and most heartfelt words I've read from a writer I admire a great deal. His words give hope in the face of failure and warnings of the pitfalls of success. Though his speech was aimed at graduates of an art school, they can be taken to heart by anyone who depends on their passion and their creativity to make a living and to enjoy their life. They are nothing short of an inspiration.
Chip Kidd's design of Gaiman's words is playful, fun, clever and amusing. When Gaiman talks about breaking rules, Kidd breaks a few rules of his own. When Gaiman describes his goals as a mountain, Kidd makes a mountain out of the simplest of shapes: a bracket. Kidd uses color and shape and placement on the page to give Gaiman's word form and substance and weight. It's just words on a page...but look harder. It's so much more.
Gaiman's theme here is that whatever life throws at the artist, good times or bad, hard times or easy, there is something we can do. "Make good art," he tells us.
And with this little beauty of a book, Neil Gaiman and Chip Kidd show us how it's done.
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Kindle version is unreadable
It looks like it might be an interesting board. But on the Kindle it’s been set up with colorful low contrast text in a the damnable kindle photo representational form. It mixes format between landscape and portrait. It doesn’t fit on a normal Kindle and on my iPad Pro I’m still having to re-orient the page. Foolishly I didn’t open it quickly after I purchased it so I’m now passed my return date but I’m very disappointed and would certainly return it for a refund if I could.
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Great read, albeit a short one...
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