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	Chip Kidd: Book One - Cooper Union, NYC \| Dusty Wright's Culture Catch
		Chip Kidd has designed many well-known and beautiful books, including his own very fine novel The Cheese Monkeys, which made a pretty good argument for the idea that graphic designers are the great unsung artists of the world.
		Kidd’s work demonstrates an apparently encyclopedic memory for images, and a genuine feel for the texture of particular places and times.
		Kidd is responsible for the iconic fl-and-white tyrannosaurus on the cover of Jurassic Park, for the stark, text-only cover of Katharine Hepburn’s Me, and for the oddly apt naked Barbie doll on the cover of David Sedaris’ Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim.
	www.culturecatch.com /art/chip_kidd (345 words)

	The Book on a Graphics Superhero - New York Times
		Kidd, then 31, was a rabid pop culture consumer, living in a two-room apartment with 20's modern furnishings and a huge collection of Batman and Justice League memorabilia.
		Kidd met, at a party for a book one had edited and the other designed, he was 50 years old, a grown man for whom much of pop culture, he said, was a foreign country.
		Kidd continued, warming to his subject, the back story of the child whose parents are killed by a mugger right in front of him.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/03/garden/03kidd.html?ei=5090&en=3ef1267c0e47c1f9&ex=1288674000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (1226 words)

	Rizzoli New York \| Catalog \| Chip Kidd: Book One by Chip Kidd
		Written by Chip Kidd, Contribution by David Sedaris, Donna Tartt and Elmore Leonard, Introduction by John Updike
		Chip Kidd: Book One is sure to enthrall design aficionados, book lovers, pop-culture fanatics, comics fans, and design students.
		Chip Kidd is associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf.
	www.rizzoliusa.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780847827480 (207 words)

	Chip Kidd: Between covers Graphis - Find Articles
		Chip Kidd: Between Covers One of the book trade's premier form-givers is moonlighting as a storyteller.
		Kidd changed all that with a succession of widely influential book jackets that alternated strikingly spare cover treatments with what Veronique Vienne, in Graphic Design: America Two, called "flea market clutter." Sometimes a Kidd creation is notable for its high-concept image.
		Kidd admits to the occasional hurdle when a design gets approval from the editorial end, only to run into objections from the author, or when permissions prove to be a problem.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3992/is_200203/ai_n9077903 (774 words)

	The Hindu : Literary Review / Columns : Judge a book by its cover
		Kidd — a staffer on Alfred Knopf who has designed more than 1,500 covers — is so sought after that authors stipulate in their contracts that he design their books.
		Kidd picks more than 800 of his best book covers and lavishly and playfully showcases them here, along with commentary by the authors he designed these jackets for.
		Moonis is an artist of the pen, paper and paintbrush variety (quite the opposite of Chip Kidd, as it were), and he's been absolutely superb at translating and distilling a book's tone and content into a singular image.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2006/09/03/stories/2006090300390600.htm (1059 words)

	Penn State College of Arts and Architecture \| News
		Charles “Chip” Kidd, graphic designer and editor-at-large for Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House Publishing, in New York City, was recently named a Penn State Alumni Fellow, the most prestigious award given by the Penn State Alumni Association.
		Kidd’s own novel, The Cheese Monkeys, which follows a graphic design student’s experiences at a rural central Pennsylvania state university, was published in 2001.
		In addition to his fiction-writing, Kidd has authored, designed and/or edited several non-fiction books on the art of comics in America, written for many leading design magazines, and been featured in hundreds of articles in mainstream, trade and online publications.
	www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu /news/2004/oct/27_kidd.html (335 words)

	Chip Kidd The Cheese Monkeys Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Kidd's characters stand out even in a novel so graphically intensive it was written with a page design program.
		Kidd's fifties setting allows him to get straight to the essence of personal interactions and artistic philosophy.
		Kidd's prose and dialogue occasionally seem a bit modern for its practically prehistoric protagonists, but it still works in an arch nod-and-a-wink way.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2002/kidd-the_cheese_monkeys.htm (547 words)

	Flak Magazine: Interview with Chip Kidd, 11-13-01
		For first-time novelist Chip Kidd, a career in visual art serves as the wellspring for his new book, "The Cheese Monkeys." It's a bit of an understatement to say the author's day job is doing graphic design.
		Kidd, whose stunning book-jacket designs have graced the likes of "Jurassic Park" and "American Rhapsody," strides like an inky colossus among contemporary book-cover designers, earning plaudits throughout the graphic design community for his ability to create evocative and stunningly direct images in a variety of styles.
		Kidd's fascination with the mechanics of teaching — and the sublime art of teaching well — springs from experience.
	www.flakmag.com /features/kidd.html (1272 words)

	Jeet Heer, "Chip Kidd"
		In hailing Kidd as “the world’s greatest book-jacket designer”, thriller king James Ellroy was merely adding his voice to a loud chorus of praise.
		Like a cartoonist marking off panels and word balloons, Kidd tends to divide his covers into discrete blocks of information: one chunk for the title, another for picture (which is sometimes itself divided into smaller squares).
		To some people, the fact that Kidd makes such a demand on their time and energy is proof that he is a pretentious show-off.
	www.jeetheer.com /culture/kidd.htm (1173 words)

	Portfolio Center \| Interviews \| Chip Kidd
		Chip Kidd is the world’s most celebrated and coveted book jacket designer, known for his unique and provocative covers.
		Kidd’s visit to Portfolio Center this recent fall quarter was much anticipated, and the dynamic designer and speaker did not disappoint.
		Being an art school survivor himself, Kidd is the poster child for students who are just beginning to learn what Hamlet meant when he said, “by indirection find direction out.” Kidd understands the risks involved in choosing this industry, and the faith one must have in his or her own talent and passion.
	www.portfoliocenter.com /events/interviews/2007/1/Chip-Kidd (531 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kidd covers design, murder in 'Learners' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While Chip Kidd may be best known for his book covers — his designs have graced titles by David Sedaris, Michael Crichton and hundreds of other authors — occasionally he likes to work between them.
		Kidd plans to expand his novella into a full-length book, tentatively set for release in 2006.
		Kidd also is working with book publisher Rizzoli to develop "a definitive coffee table book" of his designs.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/openbooks/2004-07-21-kidd-profile_x.htm (456 words)

	Chip Kidd (Monographics) by Veronique Vienne (kottke.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She also relates how Kidd is greatly influenced by popular culture, noting his vast collection of Batman memorabilia.
		Chip Kidd reveals the fascinating life and career of a revolutionary graphic designer with a winning public persona, whose ambitions now also lean toward editing and writing.
		Chip Kidd (Monographics) is one of the 42 books written about on kottke.org.
	www.kottke.org /03/10/chip-kidd (253 words)

	Alumnus shares Batman obsession, collection with University students
		Kidd, though, a 1986 University graduate in graphic design, is better known for his work in book design.
		Kidd's lecture, sponsored in part by the Center for the History of the Book, provided a short history of Batman through his many guises--comic books, television, movies and even tortilla chips.
		It's the tortilla chips and other strange spin-offs, like a pathetic and crumpled Robin marionette, that Kidd is most interested in.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1997/01/01-24-97tdc/01-24-97d05-006.htm (542 words)

	Review \| Mythology, Chip Kidd and Kyle Cooper
		Kidd loves using photography, sometimes found and sometimes shot anew by his photographer-of-choice, Geoff Spear, to illustrate the title or the theme of the book.
		As often as not, the photograph is used in pieces, or upside down, or is distressed in some other way, all to allow Kidd to make his point more clear.
		Like Chip Kidd, he approaches his projects without fear, using any and all material and inspiration to almost overflowing effect, no matter the level of quality of the film that follows.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/3comix.html (1406 words)

	USATODAY.com - Chip Kidd, book cover designer, unmasked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Such accolades seem to embarrass Kidd, who calls them "ridiculous" and admits to being "inky, but only on a dwarfish scale." He says the first cover he ever noticed was "no doubt for some sort of Batman comic I saw when I was about 3, enough said.
		Kidd used a simple fl and white photograph of a child's stuffed bunny rabbit standing on its head.
		Kidd also wrote a well-reviewed novel, The Cheese Monkeys, loosely based on his college experiences, and is working on what he calls not a sequel but "Episode Two." He says, "I'm aware a vast majority of human beings didn't read The Cheese Monkeys." (Related item: Read an excerpt from The Cheese Monkeys)
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2003-09-02-chip-kidd_x.htm (1101 words)

	chip_kidd · The Design Encyclopedia
		Chip Kidd is a Graphic Designer and writer in New York City.
		He has been the design consultant for the Paris Review since 1995, and in 1998 he was made a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationalle.
		Chip Kidd has also written about graphic design and popular culture for Vogue, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, Arena, 2wice, The New York Post, ID and Print.
	www.thedesignencyclopedia.org /chip_kidd (481 words)

	Amazon.ca: Chip Kidd: Books: Veronique Vienne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kidd's innovative use of photographs and graphic-design elements to reinforce the concept of reality in fiction added a new dimension to book covers.
		There's a portrait of Chip Kidd in Marion Ettlinger's Author Photo, presumably as author of the novel The Cheese Monkeys (2001), but Kidd is also a gifted and enormously successful graphic designer specializing in book jackets for such distinguished houses as Knopf.
		Vienne chronicles Kidd's unique use of photographic images, fascination with comic strips, involvement with graphic novels, and reputation as a jester.
	www.amazon.ca /Chip-Kidd-Veronique-Vienne/dp/0300099525 (548 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| Chip Kidd: Book One by Chip Kidd
		At the forefront of a revolution in publishing, Kidd’s iconic covers, with their inventive marriage of type and found images, have influenced an entire generation of design practitioners in many fields.
		The result is an important contribution to the design canon today as well as a visually dazzling (and often hilarious) insider’s look at the design and publishing process.
		The book also showcases Kidd’s work with comics and graphic novels, including his collaborations with leading artists and writers in the field.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780847827855 (200 words)

	scans_daily: Chip Kidd, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, and the best photo manip ever
		Kidd to be less than a household name, although his work is quite well known.
		Kidd's designs grabbed the attention of Frank Miller, who subsequently had Kidd redesign the collected editions of the Dark Knight and Sin City series.
		That's interesting, 'cause Kidd writes that Clowes' cover was rejected because DC worried customers would see it and think "collection of reprinted material!" instead of "new cool stuff!" I wonder if the fact a Flash was audited had anything to do with it.
	community.livejournal.com /scans_daily/2521302.html (838 words)

	John Updike on Chip Kidd \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Imagine my sense of eternal return, of geographical ambush, when, decades after leaving the area, I learned that Chip Kidd, my publisher's dashing young virtuoso of book-jacket design, was from Lincoln Park.
		There is a playful thinginess and a stern dimension of concreteness to Kidd's designs: Robert Hughes's essays on art are fronted by the back of a canvas, a Cuban novel by Cristina Garcia is wrapped in cigar-box imagery.
		Kidd has the good humour and spendthrift resourcefulness of an artist who trusts the depth of his own creativity.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,,1732089,00.html (457 words)

	Chip Kidd \| The A.V. Club
		Chip Kidd's book-cover design had a second life not only as the poster image for Steven Spielberg's movie adaptation, but also as the corporate logo for the fictional amusement park within the film.
		Kidd remains with his first employer, Knopf, for whom he's turned out countless covers for Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, and many others; his relationship with those writers has made his covers as much a part of their new novels as their trademark prose style.
		Chip Kidd: Well, the boring answer is, a good book cover makes you want to pick it up.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/23034 (3021 words)

	Be A Design Group: Graphic Design as a Group Experience
		It is interesting that Chip has already had a monograph of sorts written by Veronique Vienne for the series called Monographics which is edited by none other than Rick Poynor.
		Maybe this is Chips way of saying that he has pushed book design as far as he can, or more likely, he was staying within the budget.
		I got a chance to see Chip speak at the 92nd St. Y last month (“There is a style gland that becomes malignant in Nevada” … love those talk titles) and someone asked him that.
	www.beadesigngroup.com /blog/archives/2005/11/chip_kidd_book_one_the_actual.shtml (1646 words)

	QuarkXPress 7 » Chip Kidd on QuarkXPress 7
		It’s even more rare that the person in question is doing all three in QuarkXPress… unless of course that person is Chip Kidd, one of the all-time greats of graphic design.
		At the launch, Chip regaled the audience with possibly some of the most geeked-out designer humor I have ever heard, along with a more reflective reading of a ‘lost chapter’ from his brilliant first novel, The Cheese Monkeys.
		By the way, fans of The Cheese Monkeys will be pleased to know that Chip’s first QuarkXPress 7 project was getting to work on finishing the follow-up book and that it will appear on the page exactly as it appeared on Chipâs screen as he was writing it: right in QuarkXPress.
	www.quark.com /products/xpress/seven/blog/?p=23 (266 words)

	AIGA Los Angeles \| Event \| Chip Kidd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The presentation by Chip Kidd was very insightful, inspirational and extraordinarily entertaining.
		Chip Kidd was both informative and entertaining in a very funny and accessible way...
		Chip is linked up via Quickpost re: Dem candidate posters for the NY Times.
	www.aigalosangeles.org /events/archives/000022.php (1015 words)

	The cheese monkeys : a novel in two seme… by Chip Kidd \| LibraryThing
		Kidd threw in lots of his personal design philosophy in the book.
		Kidd is as close to a celebrity as book designers get.
		The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd was a gift I've taken a while to read.
	www.librarything.com /work.php?book=11496 (478 words)

	Ramblings of a Graphic Design Professor: Chip Kidd Interview…
		Chip works as a writer in addition to being a graphic designer in New York for Knopf Publishers.
		Those of us in design who follow Chip’s work and writings know him to be an imaginative innovator who pushes designers and design students to spend time thinking and arriving at creative solutions first.
		Chip told me that the student who made this piece received an “A” because it was such a great solution.
	graphicdesignprofessor.blogspot.com /2005/10/chip-kidd-interview.html (813 words)

	YouWorkForThem \| Monographs: Chip Kidd
		Description: Kidd’s book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf are among the most significant and innovative of our time.
		Details: A revealing look at a revolutionary graphic designer, Chip Kidd is renowned and revered as a maverick graphic designer.
		Vienne concludes by examining Kidd’s editorial involvement with books on cartoonists as well as his own first novel,The Cheese Monkeys, published in 2001 to critical acclaim.
	youworkforthem.com /product.php?sku=P0153 (412 words)

	Book detail - Review - Chip Kidd: Work: 1986-2006
		Stylishly designed and richly produced, this witty volume works both as a retrospective of Kidd's renowned book covers and as a memoir of his career in publishing.
		His accounts of the development of such famous covers as the clear acetate jacket for Donna Tartt's The Secret History and the high-gloss spot-laminate design for Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are fascinating.
		Kidd's descriptions of his design process and training make the book equally rewarding for graphic artists.
	reviews.publishersweekly.com /bd.aspx?isbn=0847827852&pub=pw (280 words)

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