Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
The Assignment
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: The Assignment
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll talk about what to do when you receive a brief for a cover. You will need to know the background material, the client, and the parameters of the project.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: The Assignment, 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
“The Assignment In the last lesson, we learned about materials and methodology. Now, we'll take on the assignment. Early in the summer of 2019, I got an email from an editor at Marvel Comics asking if I'd like to do a cover for a new Spider-Man No. 1 to be written by J.J. Abrams and his son, Henry Abrams. I was beyond excited to have this opportunity. It was going to be, I believe, an eight-issue series that was going to be what's called outside of continuity. Continuity in comics is what we call canon in literature, or it's what the official storyline is. This was going to be outside of tha...”
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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.”
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- 1175 students
- 12 lessons (1h 43m)
- 13 additional resources (3 files)
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- Audio: English
- English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
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