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Author: Neil Gaiman
ISBN : 0062266764
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In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art.

The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman’s inspiring speech.

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• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow (May 14, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062266764
• ISBN-13: 978-0062266767
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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This is the transcript of a commencement speech that Neil Gaiman gave in May 2012 to the graduating class of the University of Arts in Philadelphia. His speech (which you can find easily on Youtube) is moving, personal, and his charge to the future artists of the world to stay creative and make good art is both useful and inspirational, and has been oft-quoted and requoted since.

That said, this hardcover book's presentation of that seminal speech is mediocre, slight, and diminishes Gaiman's wisdom (no mean feat). It's clearly tied in for impulse-purchasing during Graduation Season - a slight trifle of a stocking stuffer that loved ones buy for the legions of new grads that finish school each spring.

What makes this sadder is that the book is designed by Chip Kidd, who is a legend of graphic design for print and book covers. [Google image him for a sampling]. Everything about Kidd's graphics screams self-indulgence here, and not style borne from content. It's hard to look at Kidd's visual representations of Gaiman's speech and not think it's an amalgam of Kidd b-sides or unfinished drafts from his ideas scrapbook.

Kidd's graphics for the book is a rare misfire in his ouvre. The graphic design employed is like seeing a 3D movie without 3D glasses on. It distracts from Gaiman's simple and strong message. It's as if the book's publisher (or Kidd) didn't trust Gaiman's strong clear words on their own - which is a mistake, and not one of the 'interesting, amazing, glorious and fantastic mistakes" that Gaiman champions artists to make on purpose in his stirring speech.

The book hides under a canopy of fonts for fonts' stake in different colors for different's sake.