Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
Creating a Portfolio and Finding a Job
A course by Chip Kidd , Graphic Designer and Writer
About the video: Creating a Portfolio and Finding a Job
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll talk about how to present your projects in an effective way in order to find a job.”
In this video lesson Chip Kidd addresses the topic: Creating a Portfolio and Finding a Job, 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 Portfolio and Finding a Job In the last lesson, we talked about creating a theme with your projects. In this lesson, we're going to talk about your portfolio. These two things are not unrelated because all of the things in your portfolio are creating a theme and the theme is you and what you are capable of, and that is what you want to show a potential employer. If you want to think of a portfolio as a linear series of projects, whether that's on the web or in a portfolio case, you want to lead off with a really good piece. Frankly, you want to end your portfolio with one of your...”
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Course summary for: Comic Book Cover Design: Unleash Your Super Designer
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Category
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Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop -
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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