![]() ![]() ![]() “It was like I was in typography 101,” said Kidd, whose design résumé includes titles by Michael Crichton, Elmore Leonard, Haruki Murakami, and John Updike. ![]() In his approach to the speech, Kidd said, he recalled his days as a student in graphic design at Penn State. The talk was sponsored by the Boston Book Festival. ![]() Gaiman and Kidd met on the Oberon stage June 5 to discuss the inspiration behind the speech, the process of creating the book, and challenges and opportunities for artists today. The book, “Make Good Art,” posed a challenge for its designer, Chip Kidd: how to make a visual and tangible record of Gaiman’s speech compelling when the speech was already freely available online. The speech went viral, garnering thousands of views and tweets - so many, in fact, that publishing houses expressed an interest in producing a book of the speech. He decided that he would “write down everything I wish I had known, when I’d started, that could possibly help.” “I had no idea how to give a speech to a bunch of graduating artists,” said Gaiman, who never attended college. But until his 2012 address to the graduating class of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, he’d never delivered a commencement speech. Author Neil Gaiman has received multiple honors for his stories, books, and comics, including several Hugo Awards, the Newbery Medal, and the Carnegie Medal. ![]()
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