Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd
CharlesKidd is an American graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers. Based in New York city, Kidd has become one of the most famous book cover designers to date...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
book thinking dull
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.
book technology different
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.
thinking ideas goal
Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.
long life-is long-life
Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
problem wells solutions
If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.
art ideas giving
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
ideas no-idea seems
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.
book stories haiku
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
technology humanity sensual
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.
design problem given
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
falling-in-love jobs technology
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.
lobby sign sort walk
The lobby there, ... is the sort of place where you walk in and you feel like you're there to sign a treaty.
covered originally shot tea
I originally thought of that shot of the tea set covered in the ash from 9/11.
race ideas america
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.