Chip Kidd at AGI Open 2011

In Barcelona Chip Kidd stumbled across a café decorated with book covers that he had designed. He found this both strange and rather great.

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On his way to the AGI Open 2011 conference in Barcelona Chip Kidd walked past a Café Ququ to find that the inside was decorated exclusively with book jacket covers that he had designed.

Kidd talks about the joy of this random discovery, the role of book cover design in the digital age and the need to constantly refresh.