Chip Kidd is a book jacket designer, associate art director for Alfred A. Knopf, certified comic nerd, freelancer, and novelist.
Kidd’s Career
Kidd got his start in the design world with a graphic design degree at Penn State in 1986. From there he moved to New York, and became a junior assistant in the Alfred A. Knopf publishing art department. He worked his way up the company ladder, becoming the Associate Art Director in 2013. Kidd has created book covers for David Sedaris, Neil Gaiman, Cormac McCarthy and many more authors.
In 2001, Kidd published his first novel, The Cheese Monkeys. He wrote a sequel, The Learners. He has helped write and design other books, as well as writing his own children’s graphic design guide, A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design.
In 2014, he was awarded an AIGA medal. He continues to work at Alfred A. Knopf and has also given a Ted Talk on design philosophy.
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