Chip Kidd

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

— Chip Kidd

I really liked the design of Batman. I liked the concept. There's a lot more you can do with Batman than most…

— Chip Kidd

“Twenty-six letters: Marjorie Morningstar or Ulysses. The man-made world means exactly that. There isn't an inch of it that doesn't have to…

— Chip Kidd

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an…

— Chip Kidd

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...

— Chip Kidd

“I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and…

— Chip Kidd

“Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?”

— Chip Kidd

Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer…

— Chip Kidd

I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm…

— Chip Kidd

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that…

— Chip Kidd

“Did they want what I wanted? Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to…

— Chip Kidd

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have…

— Chip Kidd

“After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.”

— Chip Kidd

“It's not Art. And Art is not Design.”

— Chip Kidd

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

— Chip Kidd

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always…

— Chip Kidd

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

— Chip Kidd

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

— Chip Kidd