Who is Chip Kidd? Chip Kidd seems like a really interesting designer to dicuss things with. His book covers usualy include an intricate photo along with very large type. To me his style is not appealing but I do believe that the way in which he creates book covers, and writes books for that matter makes him unique in the design world. It's nice to come across a designer that can understand the frustrations of an author and know the all around issues with publishing books. I belive that he can really use these tools to his advantage when designing covers over many other book cover designers.
John Gall is also an interesting book cover designer. Although I found his covers more appealing to my eye, the covers did still seem slightly busy. Each cover was designed around a photograph with a geometric solid shape covering an eye or bottom half of a face. There was one cover of his that really caught my eye, the cover with 2 chairs leaning onto eachother. His style is also very interesting but I did not like that in his interview he said he didn't read the entire book. I can understand how this would be difficult to read EVERY book that you designed a cover for but to me that doesn't seem like something one would openly share.
No comments:
Post a Comment