Chip Kidd Quotes

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Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chip Kidd

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

Chip Kidd

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Chip Kidd

What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them.... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd

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Born: September 12, 1964 (age 60)

Bio: Charles Kidd is an American graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers. Based in New York city, Kidd has become one of the most famous book cover designers to date.

Known for:

The cheese monkeys (2001)
Judge This (2015)
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design (2013)
Batman: Death by Design (2012)
The Learners (2008)

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