Chip Kidd (born Shillington, Pennsylvania in 1964) is an American graphic designer. He is perhaps the only such designer to become famous chiefly as a result of designing innovative and memorable book and comic book covers. He is currently associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House.
He has created more than 1,500 designs, including those for works by Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Schulz, Mark Beyer, Dean Koontz, David Sedaris, John Updike, Alex Ross, Frank Miller and others. One of his most famous designs is the cover to Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, which also influenced the design of the film.
He wrote the book The Cheese Monkeys, a work of fiction that draws on Kidd's real-life experience of attending college at Pennsylvania State University. He is at work on the follow-up book. In 2003, Kidd collaborated with writer Art Spiegelman on a biography of cartoonist Jack Cole titled "Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits."
A monograph of his work, Chip Kidd: Book One, Work: 1986 - 2006, written and art-directed by Kidd and curated and designed by Mark Melnick, was published by Rizzoli in 2005. According to an anecdote in his monograph, Kidd was asked for a class assignment at Penn State to design a book cover of Museums and Women by Updike, who is also a Shillington native. Kidd's teacher panned his work in front of the class, and encouraged him half-jokingly to avoid book design as a career, but he would later end up working on the actual covers for Updike's later books, including Memories of the Ford Administration.
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• Batman Collected (1996)
• Superman: The Complete History: The Life and Times of the Man
of Steel (1998)
• Batman Animated (1999)
• David Boring (2000)
• Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days(2001)
• Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz (2001)
• The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (2001)
• Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
(2001)
• House at Maakies Corner (2002)
• Chip Kidd by Veronique Vienne (2002)
• Wonder Woman: The Life and Times of the Amazon Princess
(2004)
• Amy and Jordan (2004)
• Batman: Cover to Cover: The Greatest Comic Book Covers of the
Dark Knight (2005)
• Chip Kidd: Work: 1986-2006 (2005)
• Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross (2005)
