Author: Chip Kidd
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: novel, learners
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2008-02-19
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0743255240
ISBN-13: 9780743255240

Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be -- well, happy. But when he’s assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology Department, Happy can’t resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty -- chiefly, his own. Written i

Author: Chip Kidd
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: work, one, book, kidd, chip
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0847827852
ISBN-13: 9780847827855

Described as "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today (USA Today), Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. At the forefront of a revolution in publishing, Kidd’s iconic covers, with their inventive marriage of type and found images, have influenced an entire generation of design practitioners in many fields.Chip Kidd: Book One collects all of his book covers and designs for the first time, as well as hundreds of developmental sketches and concepts-annotated by Kidd and by many of the best-selling authors he’s worked w

Author: Chip Kidd
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: semesters, novel, monkeys, cheese
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0061452483
ISBN-13: 9780061452482

After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, has decided to major in art, much to his parents’ dismay. It is an autobiographical, coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity,

Authors:Art Spiegelman, Chip Kidd,
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: stretched, limits, forms, man, cole, plastic, jack
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0811831795
ISBN-13: 9780811831796

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he literally embodies the comic book form: the exuberant energy, flexibility, boyishness, and subtle hints of sexuality. And as cartoonists "become" each character they create, it can be said that Jack Cole himself resembles Plastic Man. Cole revealed the true magnitude and intensity of his imagination and inner thoughts as Plastic Man slithered from panel

Authors:Lisa Birnbach, Chip Kidd,
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: old, world, new, whole, prep, true
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-09-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0307593983
ISBN-13: 9780307593986

“Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.”From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.True Prep is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapt to the new order of things. Birnbach considers the prep attitude towards money (ambivalent), schools (good investment), wardrobe (now your clothes fit), work (some careers will never be prep), decorating (ask mummy), scandal

Authors:Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor,
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: story, daughter, mother, pomegranates, traveling
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0670021202
ISBN-13: 9780670021208

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughterSue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other. Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect w

Authors:J. S. Kidd, Renee A. Kidd,
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: science, society, solutions, problems, pollution, air
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0816056056
ISBN-13: 9780816056057