Chip Kidd

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born

January 01, 1964 in Reading, Pennsylvania, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.goodisdead.com/learners/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels

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Chip Kidd is an American author, editor and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers.
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up in a Philadelphia suburb, strongly influenced by American popular culture. While a design student at Penn State, an art instructor once gave the assignment to design a book cover for Museums and Women by John Updike, who is also a Shillington native. The teacher panned Kidd's work in front of the class, suggesting that book design would not be a good career choice for him. However, Kidd later received professional assignments to design covers for Memories of the Ford Administration and other books by Updike.
Kidd is currently associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He first j...more

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Books by Chip Kidd

Average rating: 3.85 · 11,638 ratings · 1,361 reviews · 31 distinct works

	The Cheese Monkeys 3.72 avg rating — 2,930 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Learners 3.51 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Book One: Work, 1986-2006 by Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear (Photographer), John Updike (Introduction) 4.38 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan by Chip Kidd, Saul Ferris, Jiro Kuwata 3.60 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Batman Collected by Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear (Photographer) 4.17 avg rating — 52 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Death by Design by Chip Kidd, Dave Taylor (Illustrations) 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal by Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Batman Animated by Paul Dini, Chip Kidd 4.46 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Death by Design 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Chip Kidd (Cover Artist) 3.71 avg rating — 265,294 ratings — published 1990 — 92 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Chip Kidd

“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.”
― Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys

43 people liked it

“Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say:
Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.”
― Chip Kidd, The Learners

tags: hilarity , monocles , wit

6 people liked it

“Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable.”
― Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys

tags: cheese-monkeys

5 people liked it

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