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The work of Chip Kidd spans design, writing and, most recently, rock ’n’ roll. He definitely has the charisma to get ahead in that third field. He is best known for his unconventional book jackets, but he has published two novels of his own: The Learners and The Cheese Monkeys. Uninterested in design trends and fashions, he often draws inspiration from collectibles and memorabilia.

Kidd is now busy creating his masterpiece, a graphic novel born from his lifelong fascination with Batman (he regards himself as Batman’s number-one fan). He has teamed up with comic-book artist Dave Taylor to illustrate the story in an astonishing way, conjuring a Fritz Lang aesthetic with a healthy dose of Kidd’s own sensibility. Batman: Death By Design is set to be released in spring 2012 through DC Comics.

Chip Kidd at the Typo London 2011 conference. (Image: Gerhard Kassner)

Until then, here’s an interview with Chip Kidd, previously unpublished in English, that will get you into the mind of one of design’s most original and charismatic practitioners.

Q: How did you get into the business of jacket design?

Chip Kidd: It happened to be the first job that I was offered. I studied graphic design in Pennsylvania, where I grew up, but I knew that when I graduated I would go to New York. So, I did. I just went to every graphic design place that would see me, but eventually ended up at Random House. And it was an entry-level job, as assistant to the art director. Well, it wasn’t really what I had in mind, but I tried it for a while. It gave me a start, and it’s 24 years in October.

One of Kidd’s most recognizable covers. His artwork was adapted for a .9 billion movie series that you might have seen.

Q: How did your persona in the design world emerge?

Kidd: The thing about book covers, I think probably in most parts of the world, is that the designer gets credit on the jacket for what they’ve done. For most graphic designers, that’s not the case, in terms of how it works in print or TV commercials; you don’t see who made something on the piece itself. But in graphic design, you do. What was getting out there was the work itself. Over time that built up, to the point where people started to recognize my name.

Q: Did it take you a long time?

Kidd: It seemed long at the time, but it probably took two or three years, which in retrospect isn’t that long at all.

Q: Was that in the beginning of your career?

Kidd: Well, I started in 1986. I started working right away. I wasn’t doing a lot of designing at first — it was more doing the assistant stuff. But I started actually designing after six months or something like that. It seemed, in retrospect, to happen quickly or right away.

For David Sedaris’ Naked, Kidd designed a wraparound featuring boxer shorts that, when removed, reveals an X-ray of a pelvis.

Q: What about the chain of command? In your talk at Typo Berlin 2009, you joked about issues with editors, editors in chief, authors, marketing people. Do you find that challenging or frustrating? Or do you expect people to just listen to you?

Kidd: I think it’s good that I am being constantly challenged. I think that’s important for doing good work. If people liked everything I did just because I did it, as opposed to whether it was actually good or not, that would be a problem — both for me and for them. What I don’t like, and I don’t know any designer who does, is when you feel that you’ve done the right work and then it gets rejected, for whatever reason. And then you have to go back and redo it, and you think you’ve done it well, and that gets rejected, too.

So that, I think, is a kind of challenge I don’t like, frankly because it doesn’t always seem to be about whether it’s the right design or not — it’s about some sort of political situation within the job; for example, everybody likes it, but the author doesn’t.

Q: So, marketing people and clients often make your life hard. Does it get better as you go on?

Kidd: It doesn’t seem to. [Laughs] On the one hand, yes, it gets better because I’ve gotten a reputation as someone who knows what they’re doing, and so a lot of authors will go along with that. Then you build up trust with an author if you’ve worked on their books for a long time. That part of it is fine. But then there’s this other area where things get rejected by publishers for various reasons that I either understand or don’t. Or I deal with people rejecting me directly, which is very frustrating. That part, for me, hasn’t gotten easier.

Books are very… Each book is in its own way unique. It has its own set of problems, own set of circumstances, and that doesn’t seem to change. So, there will always be an idiosyncratic nature to the work.

Kidd’s own literary debut was a novel set in a design department at a university in the 1950s. He saw the cover as an opportunity to use graphic devices that he wasn’t able to get away with when working on other people’s books.

Q: Speaking of marketing, people will often want books to be, say, red in order to sell more. Browsing your website, I realize you don’t seem to believe the cover sells the book. Do you see the cover as part of the book?

Kidd: It is a part of the book. It’s literally your first impression — it’s the book’s face. Regardless of what kind of book it is, this is the way you’re going to visually preserve it first before you open it. But this doesn’t have much to do with someone buying it. People tell me they buy books for their covers. But it’s not a sales tool in the sense of you’re going to buy it because you like that cover. Really, what the cover should do is get you to open the book and start to read it and investigate it. And at that point, the book is going to sell itself to you, or not.

I very much try to downplay the jacket as a sales tool, because I think that publishers invest too much intellectually in this concept, and they can actually make my work much, much harder than it needs to be. And certainly with the advent of buying books on the Web, you’re not going to buy a book from Amazon because of the way it looks. It’s just not the nature of how that works. The problem arises when you get a bunch of people in a room looking at a jacket and determining the fate of the design based on preconceptions of how the book will sell, about how this design will help the book to sell.

Q: Does this lead to a battle with marketing, whose job it is to sell books?

Kidd: Yes, it can — and I think often needlessly so. You know the idea: men will buy a book with a woman on it.

For his first monograph of book cover designs, Kidd did the unexpected and featured an open book on the cover.

Q: Do you try to solve such problems diplomatically?

Kidd: Diplomacy is always the best way to go, in almost any situation in life I think. But usually, I am working through an art director, who is dealing with the marketing people directly. And then the marketing people will talk to our editor in chief, who will then talk to us. It’s rare that I deal with them directly.

Q: What about typography? What’s your view on modernist book jackets (the kind you see from Switzerland) and typographically rich covers.

Kidd: It’s hard to talk about these things in general. Personally, in terms of my typography, I think it’s pretty conservative and not very adventurous, because I worry about something looking trendy. Most of the books I do are hardcover books that are meant to be kept for a long time. I’m always thinking, what will this look like in a year? What will it look like in five to ten years? And of course, it’s impossible to know, but you have to try and envision that.

Which is not to say everything should be boring and predictable — there are ways to be creative with it. Personally, I’m much more inventive with the imagery than with the typography. An image will be more powerful than the words or the title. Or if you play around, you can create a tension, an interesting puzzle for the reader to solve. And that’s much more about the imagery than the type.

Kidd got a chance to indulge his obsession with Batman, working here with photographer Geoff Spear to showcase a wide range of collectibles celebrating the Caped Crusader.

Q: Do you try to avoid fashions?

Kidd: In a way, yes. Personally, I feel I never know what’s fashionable anyway. I see what people are doing, and sometimes I see typography that I think is really interesting, and I think I wouldn’t be able to do that even if I wanted to. Which isn’t a criticism, just an observation. My skills with type are extremely limited. In terms of fashion, I don’t know what it means from one minute to the next.

Q: How do you manage living in a big city and resisting the fashionable influences around you?

Kidd: I don’t take myself out of it. I just observe what people are doing, and I do something else. I go against it. This is one of the things one of my teachers at school told me: find out what everyone in the class is doing, and then do something completely different. And that has always made perfect sense to me.

Kidd is a master of letting photography do the heavy lifting. While working on a book with Geoff Spear, he discovered an image of a scuffed bird shot with a macro lens. It came in handy when Kidd later designed Haruki Murakami’s novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.

Q: What’s your favorite form of expression (not necessarily design-related)?

Kidd: I’ve written two novels. Those to me are much more personal than me doing a book cover for somebody else. I don’t see somebody else’s book cover as a very personal form of expression. If it was, I would be taking advantage of the writer, I think unfairly. And it is perceived that way — “Oh, this is your art!” — like somebody else’s book cover is my art. Which technically may be true, but it shouldn’t come out that way. It should come out as me trying to serve their art, as opposed to me trying to serve myself.

Q: Sounds similar to the differences between the artist and the designer.

Kidd: I’ve always seen a strict division between the two. Somebody will ask me what I do, and then say, “Oh, you’re an artist.” And I say, “No, I’m a designer.”

For a novel about parents breeding children in order to maintain a carnival sideshow, Kidd used striking typography with a vibrant orange.

Q: What’s your view on ugliness?

Kidd: The same as my views on beauty. They’re extremely subjective. It’s very hard to say. Something that I find very ugly others find very beautiful, and the opposite. It’s very hard to articulate that.

Q: What’s so fascinating to you about memorabilia, comics and other collectibles?

Kidd: I appreciate them as aesthetic objects. But there’s also a nostalgic value to them — certain things I had as a child that I really enjoyed that I lost or broke. Then you become an adult and try to reclaim that. Now eBay makes that more accessible than ever. But I genuinely do get an aesthetic pleasure out of these objects, which is [expressed through] the Batman collected book that I put together, which has Batman toys from 40 years ago.

Q: So, you’re a collector?

Kidd: Oh, yes.

One of Kidd’s most striking covers, designed for the fourth installment of Osamu Tezuka’s award-winning Buddha series.

Q: What other forms of art you enjoy? I’ve spotted elements of popular art in your work. Do you identify with what was going on in New York City in the ’50s and ’60s?

Kidd: I’m definitely affected by it. But I have very strong opinions about it, in that I think somebody like Roy Liechtenstein basically is a fraud who got everybody to buy into what he was doing. And paintings about comics became far more important to critics than the comics themselves. I’m much more interested in the comics themselves. I couldn’t give a shit about a decontextualized panel that was stylized by this person. But everybody bought into it, amazingly.

Similarly, do I think Warhol was a great artist? Yes. But should he have given half the money to the guy who actually designed the canvases or the Brillo box or any of that other stuff that he totally appropriated? It’s based on something that somebody else made — that person should get credit, too. And they didn’t. I’m very much against that. It’s an abuse of the original designer.

Q: What would you do if the book format dies?

Kidd: I know, that’s an increasingly vital question. I can’t really say. I don’t know. If that’s eventually what happens, I’ll figure it out once I get there. I don’t believe that people want to read books on the screen. I think some people are… I just don’t think it’s going to go the way the music LP and CD went. It doesn’t have that function in the culture. But even eBooks — they have some kind of visual thing for their cover, so who knows? Maybe that’s what I’ll be doing. If I haven’t killed myself by then.

(From Typo Berlin 2009)

A special Thank You to our Typography editor, Alexander Charchar, for making this interview possible.

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Yes, the brand new Smashing Book #3 is coming. The printing press is warming up, the illustrations are finished, and the chapters are being proofread. This third book is the best printed book we’ve produced so far: it is a valuable, cutting-edge, high-quality printed book that any Web designer should have on their bookshelf. This time, we’ve also prepared an extra book 3⅓ that offers even more exclusive content.

We’re releasing two new printed books: the main Smashing Book 3 and Smashing Book 3⅓. Both are available as a print bundle, as eBooks and as a complete print + eBooks Bundle.

Pre-order now and add your name into the printed book: a double-page spread has been reserved to print out all of the names of the pre-sale buyers. We will contact you in March 2012 and ask you for the name you would like to have published within the book. Space is limited, so you’d better hurry up!

What’s In The Smashing Book 3?

Unlike its predecessors, the new Smashing Book #3 has a theme: Redesign. It is a professional guide on how to redesign websites and it also introduces a whole new mindset for progressive Web design. In this ever-changing Web design industry, the book challenges you to think differently about your work and will change the way you design websites forever.

A detailed look at the business and technical side of redesign is followed by a comprehensive overview of advanced HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript techniques that you can use today. You will get useful advice on innovative UX techniques, learn about the peculiarities of mobile context in Web design and discover appropriate Photoshop techniques. You’ll study a practical hands-on guide to a bulletproof workflow for responsive Web design. Finally, you will also dive deep into emotional design, content strategy and storytelling.

Table of Contents

Gallery of the authors of the Smashing Book #3.

Well-respected professionals have poured their heart and expertise into these contributions. To ensure the quality of the book, every chapter of the book has been thoroughly reviewed by experts including Jon Hicks, Tab Atkins, Paul Irish, Russ Weakley, Peter-Paul Koch, Bryan Rieger, Joshua Porter, Ryan Carson and Elliot Jay Stocks. Please notice that some details (e.g. titles of the chapters, the number of pages, etc.) may slightly change until release date.

A detail of a chapter illustration, designed by Kate McLelland.

Extra Book: Smashing Book #3⅓ — The Extension

Our authors have turned out to be much more productive than we anticipated and have produced more exciting chapters than one book could handle. Adding these chapters to the book would have increased its size and weight — and, hence, shipping cost — substantially.

Not wanting to withhold these chapters, we have decided to release them separately. We are proud to present an extra book, Smashing Book #3⅓ — The Extension, filled with four additional chapters of quick quality reading!

Gallery of the authors of the Smashing Book #3⅓.

About Smashing Book #3⅓

With Web design, we can do much more than inform the audience. The power of storytelling and content strategy is in creating engaging, emotional connections that transcend their platforms. In this book, we will review emerging navigation design patterns and understand how to employ a content strategy — which is an important process, often underestimated and dependent on many factors. A case study of Smashing Magazine’s responsive redesign beautifully illustrates what this approach could look like in practice.

Features Of The Smashing Books 3 + 3⅓

• Two separate printed books.
• 11 + 4 chapters, written by Web design experts.
• Quality flexibound cover (lighter than hardcover, heavier than softcover), with stitched binding and a ribbon page marker.
• Smashing Book #3: approx. 320 pages, 165 × 240 mm (6.5 × 9.5 inches).
• Delivery from Berlin, Germany, via air mail only (3 to 15 working days).
• shipping per delivery (even if you buy both books!).
• Also available as eBooks (PDF, EPUB, Kindle).
• Release scheduled in the last weeks of April 2012.
• Pre-ordering starts today, with up to 30% off!

We’ll soon be releasing two new printed books: the main Smashing Book #3 and Smashing Book #3⅓. Both are available as a print bundle, as eBooks and as a complete print + eBooks Bundle.

Why The Theme Of Redesign?

The reason is simple. In recent years, the Web has changed a lot. The Web designer’s tools now are advanced, and browsers are highly capable. Designers have established clever coding and design techniques, and they are facing new challenges and embracing new technologies. These changes are fundamental and require us to reconsider how we approach Web design. It’s time to rethink and reinvent: it is time to redesign the Web.

But are we all prepared for this? How does responsive design fit into your workflow? What UX and mobile techniques do you follow when designing websites? And if you have a redesign project on the horizon, how do you approach it and work your way through it? This is what the Smashing Book #3 is all about: it explains what you need to know to create effective websites today, and what you need to know to be prepared for the future.

Exclusive Artwork and Design

The Smashing Book series has gotten a rather eye-catching facelift. The well-respected Belgian artist Veerle Pieters has taken on the significant task of putting together an innovative, bold cover design. And the result is bold indeed. Veerle’s styling of Smashing Magazine’s “S” reflects the many aspects that make up a Web designer’s workflow today.

Veerle’s recent sketches for the cover of the Smashing Book #3.

Veerle’s recent sketches for the cover of the Smashing Book #3.

If you have Smashing Books 1 and 2, you’ll know that animals play a distinct role — forming almost a tradition for the series. This time, we have asked the talented young illustrator Kate McLelland to illustrate the introductory pages for all of the chapters. Kate has been impressively creative in her designs; the theme of redesign has obviously shaped the tone of her artwork. Each chapter begins with an elaborate drop cap.

A detail of a chapter illustration, designed by Kate McLelland.

Each illustration employs a different metaphor that relates to the accompanying chapter. Try to see what they all are once you get your hands on the book. Appropriately enough, when strung together, the drop caps spell out “Redesign the Web.” The composite style of the illustrations reflects how so many components have to come together for a successful redesign.

Pre-Order Now And Get Your Name In The Book!

As with the Smashing Book #2, we’ve decided to print the names of our readers right in the pages of the Smashing Book #3. A double-page spread has been reserved to print out all of the names of the pre-sale buyers (at least those who agree to it in the check-out process). The names will make up the Smashing Magazine logo: ASCII art at its best! Space is limited, so you’d better hurry up!

Please note: the sooner you order your copy, the higher the discount. With a pre-sale purchase, you can save up to 30%:

• Pre-order Smashing Book #3 printed book for .90,
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The books will be sent via air mail, and delivery should take no longer than 3 to 15 working days. Shipping starts in Berlin, Germany, and ends at your front door. If you run into trouble or have questions about your order, please don’t hesitate to contact our customer service or send us a tweet @SmashingSupport — we’d love to help out!

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Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about the Smashing Books #3 and #3⅓:

Content-Related Questions

• What’s the difference between Smashing Books 1, 2 and 3?
  The first two books covered best practices in modern Web design; although they had similarities, the two books covered different areas of Web design. Smashing Book #3 has a particular theme: redesign. It covers both the redesign process per se as well as cutting-edge approaches to Web design on a broader scale. It focuses on the most recent developments and the current demands of today’s rapidly changing environment. Smashing Book #3 gives professional advice on the what, when and how of responsive and bulletproof Web design, according to the requirements of today’s Web.
• Is Smashing Book #3 a completely new book?
  Yes, all of the content has been written from scratch, and all of the chapters have been written exclusively for this book.
• What’s this extra Smashing Book #3⅓?
  Our authors have turned out to be much more productive than we anticipated, coming up with more exciting chapters than one book could handle. Adding these chapters to the book would have increased the size and weight — and, hence, shipping cost — substantially. Not wanting to withhold these chapters, we have decided to release them separately. We are proud to present the Smashing Book #3⅓ — The Extension, four extra chapters of quick quality reading. Buy it as part of a bundle and save!
• Will the book be available in other languages?
  Maybe, but we have no plans for that yet, so don’t hold your breath.
• Will Smashing Books #3 and #3⅓ be available as eBooks?
  Yes, the books will be available in PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket, and you can pre-order an eBook bundle today.

You can find detailed shipping costs and delivery times in the Smashing Shop.

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• What are the costs for shipping to my country?
  The shipping cost for one book or a bundle is — wherever you are in the world. We are paying a share of the shipping costs ourselves to make it possible for anyone to purchase the book. Our prices are transparent: we don’t have any hidden costs, and we won’t confuse you with tricky calculations. What you see is what you pay!
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• I have a question that is not covered here.
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Amazing things to do with PHP and cURL title=”http://cot.ag/wVGZg9″ rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/8nO2z6XX” target=”_blank”>http://cot.ag/wVGZg9

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Superbowl 2012 Adverts: take a look at some of the best which interspersed the on-field action: title=”http://bit.ly/wHH4YB” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/n4YF1a1S” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/wHH4YB

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Charming stop motion animation by Alfalfa Studios for Kate Spade in celebration of the color chocolate brown title=”http://bit.ly/yc6XAY” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/kCdkfmDt” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/yc6XAY

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Avoiding Social Networks and Staying on Task. YES, it is possible! title=”http://bit.ly/An3o5E” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/aurSMNUx” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/An3o5E

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Royal Mail unveils Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake stamps! title=”http://bit.ly/zgmQe5″ rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/NA0VbECn” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/zgmQe5

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Ouch! Know Why Your Website’s Header Is Driving People Away title=”http://bit.ly/xPg8bI” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/DA4E1jV8″ target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/xPg8bI

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“Dancing Plague of 1518“ by Niege Borges = All choreographies from cult movies in posters Now dance! title=”http://bit.ly/zcsRkw” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/lwkxi5F4″ target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/zcsRkw

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Are you using SASS? Musings on Preprocessing: title=”http://cot.ag/yALC5M” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/poVzV7iO” target=”_blank”>http://cot.ag/yALC5M

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Francesco Franchi is brilliantly explaining why “Infographic Thinking” is the future and not a fad title=”http://bit.ly/AuSqoT” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/j1hkATnc” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/AuSqoT

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Keeping up with “office reading” is keeping you from getting to the “real” work? Then read on: title=”http://cot.ag/xOEqH1″ rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/ed5s220M” target=”_blank”>http://cot.ag/xOEqH1

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Check this out: WordPress Theme Trends For 2012 title=”http://bit.ly/zcSpog” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/A2JZimRw” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/zcSpog

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A cool infographic on HTML5 vs. Flash Games title=”http://bit.ly/xwf13A” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/javYWujV” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/xwf13A

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Colllor is a new webapp that deals with one of the most basic aspects of design – color. Take a look: title=”http://colllor.com/” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/ZFwfh8SH” target=”_blank”>http://colllor.com/

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Very interesting perspective about books: the dialogue between the reader and the object title=”http://ow.ly/90CLh” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://t.co/kpHa8Tld” target=”_blank”>http://ow.ly/90CLh

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