Chip Kidd





Chip Kidd

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

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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


Average rating: 3.83 · 9,807 ratings · 1,260 reviews · 31 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 3,523 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2010
Batman Animated
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2013
True Prep: It's a Whole New...
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3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 567 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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“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

“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

“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

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