Chip Kidd

Artist Description

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer in New York City. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging.

“The history of book design can be split into two eras:
before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after.”
—Time Out New York, Nov. 2005

Even after two decades, his pervasive influence can be seen on any trip to the bookstore. The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd’s first novel, was published by Scribner in Fall of 2001 and was a national bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His second novel, The Learners, was published in February of 2008 to tremendous acclaim.