Chip Kidd (born Shillington, Pennsylvania in 1964) is an American graphic designer. He is perhaps the only such designer to become famous chiefly as a result of designing innovative and memorable book and comic book covers. He is currently associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. Shillington is a borough located in Berks County, Pennsylvania. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... Alfred A. Knopf ( September 12, 1892 – August 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the 20th century. ... Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, which acquired it in 1998. ...

He has created more than 1,500 designs, including those for works by Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Schulz, Mark Beyer, Dean Koontz, David Sedaris, John Updike, Alex Ross, Frank Miller and others. One of his most famous designs is the cover to Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, which also influenced the design of the film. Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. ... Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. ... Mark Beyer (born 1950) is a comic artist who is known for his bleak story lines, often featuring death, disfigurement, depression, and humiliation, which contrast with his childlike, geometric drawing style. ... Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania) is a prolific and best-selling fiction author known primarily for his popular suspense novels. ... Sedaris, in 2004 David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American essayist and radio contributor. ... John Updike John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American writer born in Reading, Pennsylvania. ... Rosss rendition of the Golden Age Batman and Robin. ... Frank Miller Frank Miller (born 27 January 1957 in Olney, Maryland) is an American writer and artist best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. ... Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (born October 23, 1942, pronounced /kɹaɪtən/ ) is an author, film producer and television producer. ... Jurassic Park is a novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1990. ...

He wrote the book The Cheese Monkeys, published by Simon and Schuster (hardcover) in 2001 and Harper Perennial (paperback) in 2002. While a work of fiction, the book draws on Kidd's real-life experience of attending college at Pennsylvania State University. He is at work on the follow-up book. Jean-François Millet Le Semeur (The Sower) Simon & Schuster logo, circa 1961. ... The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related land-grant university based in State College, Pennsylvania (the university uses a University Park, Pennsylvania to differentiate University addresses from those in town), with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the...

In 2003, Kidd collaborated with writer Art Spiegelman on a biography of cartoonist Jack Cole titled "Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits." 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is a Jewish, Swedish American comics artist, editor and advocate for the medium of comics. ... Jack Cole (December 14, 1918 - August 15, 1958) was an American comic book artist, and illustrator best-known for his creation of the superhero; Plastic Man and for setting the style for cartoons in Playboy. ...

A monograph of his work, Chip Kidd: Book One, Work: 1986 - 2006, written and art-directed by Kidd and curated and designed by Mark Melnick, was published by Rizzoli in 2005. According to an anecdote in his monograph, Kidd was asked for a class assignment at Penn State to design a book cover of Museums and Women by Updike, who is also a Shillington native. Kidd's teacher panned his work in front of the class, and encouraged him half-jokingly to avoid book design as a career, but he would later end up working on the actual covers for Updike's later books, including Memories of the Ford Administration.

His partner is author J.D. McClatchy. They live in New York City. J.D. McClatchy (called Sandy) is a poet, literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R...

External links

• Chip Kidd's official website
• Biography