Kipp Madison - Landesberg Design

Kipp’s work for clients such as The Heinz Endowments and Green Building Alliance has earned national attention in Graphis, Communication Arts, and Print magazines (his exhibit panels in Pittsburgh’s new convention center were featured in Communication Arts’ “Green Design” issue). Kipp joined Landesberg in 2001. He has a flair for playful and inventive design solutions involving image, language, and typographic interplay.

Why design?

I really don’t have some profound background on why I became a designer. Perhaps like many designers, I didn’t have a real understanding of graphic design in high school, but I enjoyed drawing. (In the words of my parents, my drawings looked “real.”) In the summer before my senior year, I volunteered to paint a stylized mural on a blank wall of the Carlisle Swim Club. I thought that was just really cool, and that maybe somebody would actually pay me to paint a mural someday.

If I could move anywhere in the world I’d choose

Some place with a change of seasons (I like them all), and I do like the ocean. So maybe a bit inland in North Carolina? New England Coast, perhaps. Oregon? (Although I don’t feel like a New Englander or Northwesterner).