Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
Defining the Problem
A course by Chip Kidd , Graphic Designer and Writer
Learn to design a book cover that invites exploration, interaction, and touch by using both physical artwork and InDesign
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About the video: Defining the Problem
Overview
“Let's start to define what the problem is. We’ll look at form, content, and composition.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: Defining the Problem, 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
“Defining the Problem Now that you know a little more about me, in this lesson, we'll learn about what a graphic designer actually does. A graphic designer is somebody who solves problems using a combination of words and pictures. Graphic design itself can be divided into two components, form and content. Form is what something looks like. Content is what it says or means. Form is visual, and its various components include color, size, texture, composition. Form is really about appearance. One facet of graphic design is that it is a creative act in support of usually somebody else's creative...”
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Course summary for: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration
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.”
- 98% positive reviews (45)
- 1175 students
- 12 lessons (1h 43m)
- 13 additional resources (3 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
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