Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
Creating a Prototype
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: Creating a Prototype
Overview
“It's time to take the concepts and execute them. I’ll use stencils and spray paint to bring the concepts to life.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: Creating a Prototype, 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
“Creating a Prototype In the last lesson, we distilled down some of our concepts. In this lesson, we're going to make some prototypes. To get the shape of Spider-Man's eye, I googled "Spider-Man's eye" and got many different iterations and shapes of it. The Spider-Man character has been in existence since 1962 fully up until now, and there have been many subtle differences. I wanted something that was sort of like in-between, that would seem to me more classic. I found the one that I thought worked the best, and I separated it out from its contextual artwork. I got a pretty heavily bitmapped...”
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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)
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- 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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