Wired 13.10: PLAY | Cover Boy

You can't judge a book by it's cover--but you can tell a lot about the book jacket artist! This is an interesting little interview in Wired...give it a looksie.


Wired 13.10: PLAY | Cover Boy : "Even if you don't recognize his name, there's probably a Chip Kidd masterpiece on your bookshelf. As Knopf's associate art director for 20 years, Kidd has conceived covers for Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Anne Rice, and hundreds of other scribes. Now you can view a collection of them in Chip Kidd: Book One, which shows off stacks of the graphic designer's sketches, failed attempts, and finished sleeves. Wired recently talked shop with publishing's wunder-Kidd."


Perhaps book jacket art is another way to reachout to those artists who may think we only cover the "classic masters"?