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Chip Kidd - The State of Graphic Design

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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.

In this exclusive video Chip Kidd addresses anyone thinking about going into graphic design or just starting out. He outlines what the essentials are that he would look out for in a new graphic designer as well as his preference for printed media and its future.

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11 comments posted on "Chip Kidd - The State of Graphic Design"

flocout posted 14 Apr 2009
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et quand on ne parle que le français ...?
jack_prince posted 10 Mar 2009
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In my humble opinion chipp kidd is one of the most interesting designers of today. And his speeches are always very funny.
crestian de serbeireto posted 17 Feb 2009
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pour une traduction française de l'entretien CHIP KIDD - l'état de la création graphique que nos amis de Denver pensent à tous ceux (et ils sont trés, trés nombreux !) qui ne parlent pas américain !! un frenchie
Stuart Mckim posted 2 Feb 2009
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I found what CHIP KIDD said OK - it's about people not machines - but of course software helps (but you don't even really need computers at all) - oh and a real designer really does help others - and learns from them in turn! You must ask yourself what you are and what you think others are - not try to fool yourself into what you want to believe
crea posted 11 Nov 2008
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pour une traduction française de l'entretien CHIP KIDD - l'état de la création graphique. marci
crea posted 11 Nov 2008
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pour une traduction française de l'entretien CHIP KIDD - l'état de la création graphique. marci
suicidemayhem posted 24 Sep 2008
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@ hannahasbury1 First, knowing the program is only about 20% of it, the rest is creativity. There are thousands of people who can do exactly what you do with less. A professional will smack you down with Microsoft Publisher, even if you are using the new Quark if your designs are bland and generic. Second, bragging about something like that here? Sounds kind of like the guy with the huge dog and H3 Hummer: compensating for something else. If you were the 'real deal' like you say, you wouldn't b such a jacka_s on here. REAL professionals tend to help out other designs/printers/people rather than try to speak above them. In conclusion, I believe you are a joke. Mastered Quark? Even still, brings me back to my first point, software is only as good as the person using it. Oh, and Third. The LOL. Are you 12?
Jankyinc posted 20 Aug 2008
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www.jankyinc.com
JMart posted 15 Aug 2008
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Nice typo.. 'is book-jackets were described.....'
hannahasbury1 posted 5 Aug 2008
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i mastered quark express in three weeks without a degree ... then again .. that's all the time i was given to learn it as i was replacing the only graphic artist there. now three years later i'm the best there is in sullivan county .. sure that's not chicago or l.a. but considering that i'm top notch over 6 towns it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. LOL
kardozin posted 30 Jul 2008
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you need to be lucky...