week 5 graphic designer

                             

Chip Kidd is a contemporary American graphic designer, author and editor. He is best recognized as graphic designer for book covers. Being a huge admirer of comic books he not only wrote some of those for DC Comics but also designed their covers. Born on 12 September 1964, in Pennsylvania, Chip Kidd grew up to be an associate art director at the New York publishing house, Knopf. Kidd free-lanced for various firms and produced more than 70 book jackets per year. The film adaptation of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel featured Kidd's concept art for the novel. The leading American literary news magazine, Publishers Weekly commented on his book jackets as being creepy, unconventional, cunning and striking. They are designed in a manner that makes the book readers appreciate the covers as a separate art form and as well as part of literature. The American national daily newspaper USA Today lauded his spirit in the graphic designing and called him "The closest thing to a rock star" in the industry. James Ellroy, a widely recognized author, appreciated Kidd’s book jacket designs and called him "The world's greatest" graphic designer. Despite Kidd's rigorous and meticulous work on his designs, he often downplayed the significance of his covers. He has designed book covers and wrote several of DC Comics. Alex Ross illustrated one of the exclusive Batman/Superman stories that Kidd authored. In addition to graphic designing, Chip Kidd also wrote novels. It narrates the coming-of-age tale about state college art students who were bullied by their graphic designing instructor. The book largely draws upon Kidd's real-life experiences. Kidd wrote the story for the original graphic novel, Batman: Death By Design. In 2014, he received an AIGA medal for his contribution to graphic designing industry.