Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
Creating a Theme
A course by Chip Kidd , Graphic Designer and Writer
About the video: Creating a Theme
Overview
“Let's talk about how you can take your concept and apply it to multiple stories, expanding your body of work.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: Creating a Theme, 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 Theme Now that the final project is done, in this lesson, I'll talk to you about creating a theme. A theme can be defined as many different kinds of things. There are formal themes, color themes, style themes. But what really defines a theme is that various projects that look like they are inspired by each other and belong together. Once the Spider-Man cover was approved and produced and sold, then they came back to me and asked me to do something similar for their characters Wolverine and Spider-Woman. What kind of theme did I set up with the Spider-Man cover? I think it's very ...”
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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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