Tag Archives: Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd on Chip Kidd: Book One, Work: 1986-2006

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: January 11, 2006

“My career is riding on the backs of Knopf’s authors— is how I totally see it. It’s not the other way around.”

Chip Kidd #2

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: December 17, 2003

“A part of what I feel is not great is when authors — or authors and their agents, or agents on behalf of their authors — come to me and they want me to design their books because they think it will solve all their problems for them. And now I can safely say, I designed my own book cover for my novel and it was not a runaway success.”

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Chip Kidd

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: December 17, 2001

“I live with a real writer. A real writer is someone for whom it is much, much more natural and doesn’t have to work at it nearly as much. And certainly someone who is much better read than I am.”

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