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                    [ArticleID] => 1440270
                    [Title] => Bite-sized Murakami
                    [Summary] => 

Following on the heels of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage last year, Haruki Murakami released The Strange Library, basically a short story packaged (in the US, anyway) with clever design by Chip Kidd, responsible for the look of most of the author’s American editions.

[DatePublished] => 2015-04-04 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1363510 [Title] => The cult of Murakami [Summary] =>

No sooner had I got my copy of Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, and someone started fondling the cover. “I love this cover,” the book fondler said. “I’d like to have my own book, just so I could have a cover like this.”

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 956968 [Title] => Heard Neil Gaiman’s speech? Now read it [Summary] =>

We live in a YouTube world, where people get their how-to information, knowledge and wisdom in four-minute video bursts.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 22343 [Title] => Good is dead [Summary] =>

Good is dead” is the web address of Chip Kidd, the Leonardo da Vinci of the book cover world: his masterpieces even spill over to various pop art mediums such as posters for theater plays and CD covers. Last year, he designed and wrote a book on his works called Chip Kidd Book One: Work: 1986-1996. As you flip through its visual spreads, you realize that, in the era of Chip Kidd, to be just a good book jacket designer is to be as good as dead. That’s because, as whimsical as his creations are, Kidd is dead serious about design. [DatePublished] => 2007-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135359 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1366854 [AuthorName] => J. Vincent Sarabia Ong [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) ) )

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