{"id":1816,"date":"2014-01-18T07:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2014-01-18T07:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:26:54","slug":"penn-state-acquires-chip-kidd-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/01\/18\/penn-state-acquires-chip-kidd-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State acquires Chip Kidd archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-18-at-7.15.33-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1817\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-01-18 at 7.15.33 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-18-at-7.15.33-AM-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Updike aficionados know Chip Kidd as the principal designer of Updike&#8217;s books published at Knopf, but the fellow Reading, Pa. native also wrote books of his own and designed covers for numerous other authors, including the now-iconic dust jacket for <em>Jurassic Park<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This past week Penn State&#8217;s University Libraries announced that they have acquired the Chip Kidd archives\u2014enough material to fill 250 boxes and 1 terabyte of digital data. According to a story posted on the university website, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/300340\/2014\/01\/16\/arts-and-entertainment\/penn-state-libraries-acquire-design-rock-star-alumnus\">&#8220;University Libraries acquire design &#8216;rock star,&#8217; alumnus Chip Kidd&#8217;s archives,&#8221;<\/a> the librarians plan to exhibit the Kidd archive next January, &#8220;with a goal of having the collection processed and open to researchers by then as well.\u00a0Tim Pyatt is the contact person: tdp11@psu.edu, 1-814-865-1793.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updike aficionados know Chip Kidd as the principal designer of Updike&#8217;s books published at Knopf, but the fellow Reading, Pa. native also wrote books of his own and designed covers for numerous other authors, including the now-iconic dust jacket for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/01\/18\/penn-state-acquires-chip-kidd-archives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}