Neil Gaiman: great speech, good advice, honest, accepting of the conventional and unconventional, and simple.Chip Kidd: love the layouts, varying from simple to a little less simple, beautiful and uncomplicated color palette, interesting, creative, and just laid out well. A cute little book. Though I generally enjoyed this, I still wonder, was it worth it to make a book out of a speech? I am looking forward to watching the speech on Vimeo later. Too bad links don't work on hardcover books.... An enjoyable read, but sadly it did not feel very inspirational for where I am in life right now. In fact, some of the advice is a bit disheartening since it suggests the opposite of the projected course of my current life. I am trying to build a career in librarianship, which, though it has its charms, is a rather quotidian sort of job compared to Gaiman's own self-described path in life. But it is not really a job of pursuing ones dreams; my creative endeavors are consigned to hobby status. But I'm also not the audience that was originally being addressed, graduates of a school focusing on art and design. So I probably should be going in a different direction.
What do You think about Make Good Art (2013)?
The speech was good, the graphic art format was irritating. My rating was for the text only.
—nika
One of my all-time favourite authors, this was another example of why. Very inspiring.
—ornela2112
