Speakers Chip Kidd: Graphic designer
Chip Kidd's book jacket designs spawned a revolution in the art of American book packaging.
Why you should listen to him:
You know a Chip Kidd book when you see it -- precisely because it's unexpected, non-formulaic, and perfectly right for the text within. As a graphic designer for Alfred A. Knopf since 1986, Kidd has designed shelves full of books, including classics you can picture in a snap: Jurassic Park, Naked by David Sedaris, All the Pretty Horses … His monograph, Chip Kidd: Book One, contains work spanning two decades. As editor of comics for Pantheon, Kidd has commissioned work from graphic novelists like Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes and Ben Katchor. He's a novelist as well, author of The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners.
Quotes by Chip Kidd
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“Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness — a little bit of humanity.”
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“I am all for the iPad, but trust me — smelling it will get you nowhere.”
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“A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.”
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“I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.”
— on his artistic process
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Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
- 17:16 Posted: Apr 2012
Chip Kidd on the Web
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Conferences
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- TED2012