Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is a TED speaker who has written 3 quality-verified books, paired here with their talks.
You know a Chip Kidd book when you see it -- precisely because it's unexpected, non-formulaic, and perfectly right for the text within. As a graphic designer for Alfred A. Knopf since 1986, Kidd has designed shelves full of books, including classics you can picture in a snap: Jurassic Park, Naked by David Sedaris, All the Pretty Horses … His monograph, Chip Kidd: Book One, contains work spanning two decades. As editor and art director for Pantheon Graphic novels, Kidd has commissioned work from cartoonists including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman. He's a novelist as well, author of The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners. Chip received the Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Award for Communication in 2007, the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Design in 1997 and the AIGA Medal in 2014. Kidd is the author of the TED Book, Judge This. (Photo: Allan Amato)
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What books has Chip Kidd written?
Chip Kidd has written 3 books in the Books Worth Reading catalogue: "The Golden Age of DC Comics", "Judge This", "The learners". Each is quality-verified and paired with their TED talk.
What does Chip Kidd write about?
Chip Kidd's books on Books Worth Reading cover Fiction & Literature, Arts & Creativity.
What is Chip Kidd known for?
Chip Kidd's intellectual contributions revolve around a deceptively simple yet profound insight: that design and narrative are inseparable, and that visual communication shapes how we understand and experience stories. Since becoming a legendary book designer at Alfred A. Knopf in 1986, Kidd has dem...
What is Chip Kidd's TED talk?
Chip Kidd's most-watched TED talk is "Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is." (2012). It is paired with their books on Books Worth Reading.