Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
Who I Am and How I Came to Be
A course by Chip Kidd , Graphic Designer and Writer
About the video: Who I Am and How I Came to Be
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll be giving you a short autobiography, including my background and work history. I’ve been into comic books for my whole life, and it wound up shaping my career.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: Who I Am and How I Came to Be, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer. Learn to design a book cover that invites exploration, interaction, and touch by using both physical artwork and InDesign.
Partial transcription of the video
“Who I Am and How I Came to Be Hi, my name is Chip Kidd. I'm a graphic designer and writer here in New York City, and I specialize in book covers and comic book covers. I was born in 1964 in Redding, Pennsylvania, which is a satellite city of Philadelphia, and I went to Wilson High School. Then I went to Penn State University, where I majored in Graphic Design. Then, upon graduating, I went to New York City to see if I could find a job making graphic design. It was the fall of 1986, and the reason that date is significant is that it was still pre-Apple computer. I learned to make graphic des...”
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Course summary for: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
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Comic, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration
Chip Kidd
A course by Chip Kidd
Charles Kidd, better known as Chip, is a graphic designer and writer from Reading, Pennsylvania. After completing his studies in graphic design at Penn State University in 1986, he moved to New York City, where he found work at Random House as a junior book jacket designer, and where he still works to this day. Today, Chip is currently the Art Director of Knopf, an imprint of Random House.
Chip is best known for his work on the dinosaur skeleton image that he created for the first edition of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, which was then used in the movie franchise’s logo. He has also worked with many other authors over the years, including John Updike, Donna Tartt, Cormac McCarthy, James Ellroy, Orhan Pamuk, Neil Gaiman Haruki Murakami, and more. Chip has designed numerous covers for DC and Marvel Comics, notably The Watchmen, Spider-Man, Batman, Marvelocity, as well as covers for magazines like The Rolling Stone. In one of their issues, Time Out New York said about him: “the history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after.”
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