Lisa Birnbach, with Chip Kidd, Knopf, $19.95 (224p) ISBN 9780307593986
Thirty years after The Official Preppy Handbook was published comes this new how-to, updated to incorporate such 21st-century givens as gay marriage, dad's new wife, and rehab, all while underscoring the importance of tradition, which ought to be as
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Neal Adams, Author, Chip Kidd, Author, Jim Lee, Author . DC Comics $39.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0659-8
This dazzling collection of pop-art miniposters spans six decades of readers' fascination with the costumed hero. The editors selected roughly 250 from among the more than 2,000 covers done for Batman-themed publications. Batman has huge...
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Chip Kidd, Author . Scribner $26 (258p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5524-0
A sequel to book designer Kidd’s first novel, The Cheese Monkeys
, this beautifully composed paean to pre-computer graphic design pitches recent graduate Happy (his nickname), now 21, into the mercantile halls of down-at-the-heels New Haven ad
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Chip Kidd. Workman, $17.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7611-7219-2
Celebrated designer Kidd’s first lesson is on the front cover: the eight-sided red sign on it doesn’t say STOP, but GO. “The cover is weird,” Kidd writes. “But you opened it anyway. And you know what? That was a design decision.” Crammed with images
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Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor. DC, $24.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-40123-453-9
Eisner Award–winning designer and novelist Kidd teams with veteran Batman artist Taylor for a fantastic period piece about architecture, politics, and murder. Bruce Wayne is preparing for his father’s condemned Old Wayne Central Station to be torn...
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Chip Kidd, Author, Geoff Spear, Photographer Little Brown and Company $50 (12p) ISBN 978-0-8212-2300-0
There's an unusual vigor and inventiveness to the graphic design of Batman Collected, which isn't surprising given that the author, Chip Kidd, is the book jacket designer who created the eye-catching jackets for Jurassic Park, All the Pretty Horses,
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Chip Kidd, Author, Geoff Spear, Photographer, John Updike, Introduction by , intro. by John Updike, photos by Geoff Spear, design by Mark Melnick. Rizzoli $65 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8478-2785-5
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. "I did not grow up yearning to become a book designer," Kidd declares in...
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Chip Kidd. Rizzoli, $60 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8478-6008-1
One of the publishing industry’s most revered graphic designers follows his 2005 monograph, Book One, with another equally satisfying art book, this time showcasing his work from the years 2006–2017. Kidd, an art director at Knopf and editor at...
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