Chip Kidd Biography

Described by USA Today as the closest thing to a rock-star in the world of graphic design, Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. Kidd is a writer and graphic designer who lives and works in New York City. Since 1986 his book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. His work has been profiled in such publications as Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, The New Republic, Time, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Out, and New York magazine. Kidd has written about graphic design and popular culture for McSweeney's, Vogue, Details, Arena, 2WICE, the New York Post, ID, and Print magazines. His books include Batman Collected, Batman Animated, The Cheese Monkeys perhaps the first successful novel employing graphic design as an integral part of its subjectand Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz.

As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon, Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor, and Alex Ross. His designs have been described as monstrously ugly by John Updike, apparently obvious William Boyd, faithful flat-earth rendering by Don DeLillo, surprisingly elegant A.S. Mehta, a distinguished parochial comic balding Episcopal priest by Allan Gurganus, two colors plus a sash by Martin Amis, and not a piece of hype. My book was lucky by Robert Hughes. The monograph Chip Kidd: Book One was published in 2005.

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