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Chip Kidd is an American graphic design, author and editor, best known for his innovative book-jackets.

is book-jackets were described by Publishers Weekly as "creepy, striking, sly, smart, unpredictable covers that make readers appreciate books as objects of art as well as literature." Author James Ellroy has called him “the world’s greatest book-jacket designer.” while USA Today called him "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today.

Turning out jacket designs at an incredible average of 75 a year, Chip Kidd has freelanced for HarperCollins, Penguin/Putnam, Doubleday, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Grove Press, Scribner and Columbia University Press in addition to his work for Knopf. His output includes cover concepts for books by Mark Beyer, Bret Easton Ellis, Dean Koontz, Cormac McCarthy, Frank Miller, Michael Ondaatje, Alex Ross, Charles Schulz, Osamu Tezuka, David Sedaris, Donna Tartt, John Updike and others. His design for Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel was carried over into marketing for the film adaptation.

“I have to have it, I have to have it.” In this exclusive video Chip Kidd walks through a recent design project his completed in QuarkXPress and how design technology and in particular QuarkXPress, impacts his work. Does he expect to be able to work even faster in the future? Watch and find out.

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3 comments posted on "Chip Kidd - on Design Technology"

  • joost joost posted 21 Apr 2008

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    I'm astonished that InDesign made such inroads in the design world considering the powerful tool Quark is. Quark is much better at many levels of design. For instance, the typography usage in Quark is vastly superior to InDesign...

  • HWMueller HWMueller posted 20 Mar 2008

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    I also love InDesign but not adversed to using Quark.

  • Luix Vega Luix Vega posted 28 Feb 2008

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    i love InDesign :-)

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