Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
Picking the Final Prototype
A course by Chip Kidd , Graphic Designer and Writer
About the video: Picking the Final Prototype
Overview
“To end this unit, I’ll talk about the strengths and weaknesses of each option. I’ll point out what an editor might be looking for, and why we chose the option that we did.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: Picking the Final 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
“Picking the Final Prototype In the last lesson, we assembled everything in InDesign. In this lesson, we're going to look at the printed-out prototypes and decide which one we think is the best. With this one on the left, I'm still toying with the old spider and the hand lettering to see if it might still work. The thing about hand lettering that's interesting, like this that's made to look like scrawl, is that if you see the original, it might not seem interesting, but when you see it printed, it may transform into something else, although I'm kind of thinking that it's not at this point. W...”
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Course summary for: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
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Category
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Areas
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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