The hilarious art of book design

Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

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22 Comments

Cup

May 16, 2020

I'm embarrassed to admit this but I'm also one of those people that sniff books after buying them. My childhood's books are plastered in my memory forever based on their smell.

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I can't stand this guy. I can tell he's good at what he does but his personality is really annoying. The way he talks and then pauses…. like "hellooo?? I just said something funny… it's your turn to laugh ha ha ha" and "I'm too eccentric… I'm unique… I'm the form and content maker"

Cathy S

Such a gifted book jacket designer — awesome in every way. But he's a book jacket designer, not a book designer. A book designer works with the actual pages of the book, the font, the layout, any photos, etc.

Руслан Руслан

Спасибо за перевод)

HUFXI

YO SOMEBODY PLS GET THIS MAN A NEW PAIR OF GLASSES

Mejo Mohan

Make me your assistant

Saad Khan

1:25 ok, boomer

Beyin Bedava

Anyone interested in book designing should check it out https://jvz3.com/c/1383019/340944

Randy Dunbar

Insightful and motivating.:-]

Momento Mori

Lesson?: make a joke, doesn't matter bad or good, stop talking, stare hard at the audience, wait for them to laugh (and if they didn't, u stare harder), and then proceed, with a nother joke, doesn't matter good or bad.

angle fromsky

One guy in the audience was paid to laugh out loud, and he did it very well

LRGonzales

I wish he'd intonate some of these sentences differently

Luke Teichert

So many questions:
Why are people laughing?
What's up with his glasses?
Why are people laughing?
Why is a headset skanky?
WHY ARE PEOPLE LAUGHING?

Ground Hog

Great talk…his glasses were hypnotic…were we all just hyp…¥π®bg.*…never mind.

Angela Em

What an excellent speaker with such peculiar humour! And the theme of the talk is very appealing to me, book design in a funny mode speaker mood, yey! 📘💖🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sanjana N

he's like an animated character

DKT1970

He's good

Dariya Tukhmetova

wow, such a great speech. I have never thought about people behind book cover. He made very simple and clear appreciation for book cover designers. thank you very much TED inviting mr Chip Kidd

Rex Benny

WHY IS THIS IN MY RECOMMENDED?

57thorns

The part about the Dry cover is really a good example of knowing enough about the rules and why they are there to break the rules in a way that works.

xl

One of the fakest job I know

ThePlasticJones

Superb presentation!