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If you're a book designer, Chip Kidd is what you aspire to (though you know you'll never get to that level). He is the top of the heap, the "rock star" of the profession, and he's even a Jeopardy! answer. You'll probably never get to that level. But flipping through Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 sure makes you want to try.

This collection of Kidd's covers, side-by-side (as many as there can be; he's designed over 1000 so far), provides a great deal of insight into how he works. There is a Chip Kidd style--you know his work when you see it, but you don't know why--and inside this book you can piece it together. Some of it is tongue-in-cheek, some more serious, but all of it is fantastic. His ability to convey what is inside a book onto its cover is like no other. This book offers interviews with authors as well as CK himself, personal tidbits here and there, and sketches that take you inside the designer'screative process.


If you're a designer of any kind, an author, or even just a reader, you must pick up Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006. It'll change the way you look at all other books from here on in.