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Chip Kidd

Charles Kidd (born 1964)[2] is an American graphic designer known for book covers.

For the James Bond villain Charles Kidd, see Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.

Chip Kidd

Charles Kidd[1]

1964 (age 59–60)[2]

Graphic designer, writer

Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits,
The Cheese Monkeys,
The Learners,
Bat-Manga!,
Jurassic Park

(m. 2013; died 2018)

Early childhood[edit]

Born in Shillington in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up being fascinated and heavily inspired by American popular culture. Comic books were his gateway into graphic design, with Batman and Superman populating some of his earliest childhood memories. Kidd attended Pennsylvania State University, where he graduated in 1986 with a degree in graphic design.

(2014) [23]

AIGA medal

National Design Award for Communication (2007)

International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Design (1997)

Personal life[edit]

Kidd lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side.[24] He was married to the late poet and Yale Review editor J. D. McClatchy;[25] the couple married in November 2013.


He continues to edit comics at Pantheon and frequently writes about graphic design and pop culture for publications including McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Vogue, and Entertainment Weekly.

The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (2001)

The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys" (2008)

Foreword by Chip Kidd to Just My Type by Simon Garfield, Profile Books, 2010,  978-1846683022

ISBN

at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

Chip Kidd

at TED

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd interviewed on Conversations from Penn State

Inventory of the Kidd archives available at , RBM 9528; Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University.

Guide to the Chip Kidd Papers