"A book cover is a distillation. It is…" — Chip Kidd

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

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15 Quotes by Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the…
Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can…
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...
I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point…
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If…
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the…
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so…
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always,…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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