Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House.
Turning out jacket designs at an average of 75 a year, Kidd freelanced for Doubleday, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Grove Press, HarperCollins, Penguin/Putnam, 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. Oliver Sacks and other authors have contract clauses stating that Kidd design their books.
I talked to Chip in summer 2005.

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[TRILIUS]

this guy is amazing, should also do stand-up comedian stuff.. pinc 11 was awesome

[fennaaa88]

He spoke on PINC.11 (may 18th 2010) in The Netherlands. I thought he was AMAZING en so thought the other attendees of the conference!

[rufioestrada]

I just saw him tonight in Harrisburg. He's hilarious as hell.

[WadeLogan]

This guy is great, anyone who gets to meet him or seem him in person do it, he's awesome.