Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is currently associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House.
Turning out jacket designs at an average of 75 a year, Kidd has freelanced for Amazon, Doubleday, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Grove Press, Harper Collins, Scribner and Columbia University Press. His design for Michael Crichton's Juassic Park novel was carried over
into marketing for the film adaptation. Publishers Weekly described his book jackets as "creepy, striking,
sly, smart, unpredictable covers that make readers appreciate books as objects
of art as well as literature." USA Today also called him "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design
today. He has written and designed book covers for several DC Comics
publications, including The Complete History of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
Great Lisa... Chip Kidd has been in the news recently... I heard an interview where he said when he was n college, his professor drew an apple and the word apple under it on the board. The professor said that one should never insult one's audience by showing both he image and word for apple... either just the word or the image will suffice.
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