Designer Chip Kidd Picks His Favorite Book Covers

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  • Posted By: badArt @ 07/06/2009 8:54:55 PM

    not it's not. that structure of creation cover looks like some 5 year old scribbled a drawing with magic markers.

  • Posted By: isca @ 07/05/2009 9:18:19 AM

    Sorry. I think your list is missing something: "The structure of creation" by Shlomo Weiss Thiele, is by far, the best of all the covers I have ever seen! You should try yo see it!

  • Posted By: badArt @ 07/04/2009 1:33:52 PM

    Eh, sorry but that Didion cover is a rip off of a certain edition of "the Death and Life of Great American Cities". Do your research, Kidd.

    Also, that Twilight cover is horrendous (personal bias).

    And the Eggers book is a classical study of why you shouldn't pack so much crap into a book cover.

  • Posted By: Majoong @ 07/03/2009 2:53:57 PM

    I am so grateful for this article. Thank you to Chip Kidd for speaking about what goes into book jacket design in a way that reaches a broad public audience.

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