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Ninja June 4th, 2008

Come check out the MoCCA Art Festival this weekend on June 7 and 8 at the historic Puck Building in lower Manhattan! Guests include Chip Kidd, Jessica Abel, Becky Cloonan, Hope Larson, Kean Soo, Rebecca Donner, David Hajdu, David Heatley, Chip Kidd, Alex Robinson, Frank Santoro, and Brian Wood.

Please note: All Saturday-Sunday programming will be held at the MoCCA Gallery, 594 Broadway (Suite 401), just below Houston.

Hours
11:00 AM–6:00 PM

Admission
$10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members)

Related links
+ MoCCA exhibitors
+ Schedule of programming and panels

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Tags: Alex Robinson, Becky Cloonan, Brian Wood, Chip Kidd, David Hajdu, David Heatley, Exhibits, Frank Santoro, Hope Larson, Jessica Abel, Kean Soo, MoCCA, Rebecca Donner

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Ninja May 1st, 2008

• The Learners (3)
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• Trademarks are not verbs (2)
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Tags: Books, Chip Kidd, Dave Eggers, Milton Glaser

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Ninja March 4th, 2008

Designer Chip Kidd brought you The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters, a funny tale about art school. And now he’s got a new book out—The Learners.

The cover was designed by Chip Kidd with illustration by Charles Burns and handlettering by Chris Ware.

Special treat for you with love from Ninja—the first 7 chapters of The Learners compiled into one downloaded pdf.
the-learners-sneak-preview.pdf

Via USA Today

Video by Bennett Holzworth at Be a Design Group.

Related link
+ Good is Dead—Chip Kidd’s web site

Purchasing links
+ The Learners: A Novel
+ The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel In Two Semesters
+ Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006

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Tags: Books, Charles Burns, Chip Kidd, Chris Ware, graphic design, The Learners

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