Stamp-Hemingway

3. Graphic Designer: Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is an American author, editor, and graphic designer, best known for his book covers. 

Kidd is the associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He first joined the Knopf design team in 1986, when he was hired as a junior assistant.  His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, (Simon and Schuster, 2001) is an academic satire and coming-of-age tale about state college art students who struggle to meet the demands of a sadistic graphic design instructor. The book draws on Kidd's real-life experiences during his art studies at Penn State. Mr. Kidd is also the lead vocalist, percussionist, lyricist, and co-songwriter in artbreak, a new band described as “The New Pornographers meet The Cars” (Unbeige).

 

 

Sample of Chip's Book Covers

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday - 1915-1959

 

American Jazz Singer and Songwriter

NOTES from Professor

 

1. Good start... the photos are well chosen and they are not skewed... you have the overview of the process working well...

Now we should redo the typography for next week. On second thought the bottom left image perhaps has her face stuffed into the frame too tightly. We want the type to be more legible and bolder overall...I just made an example for you and will post it... The font is Arial Black for her name and Arial regular for the postage and USA. I used kerning to stretch the letters to align them with the margin lines I set up....

 

2.Thanks for the re-do... almost there...

Pick one like the lower left and upper right and use the same template of type on all 4. The 44 is still too small... make it so the left and right side of 44 matches each edge of USA... see my example. You can darken her shoulder in the bottom right picture by selecting it with the lasso and feathering the selection, then using IMAGE>ADJUSTMENT>BRIGHTNESS/DARKNESS. That way the white type wll look good and be visible. So the same to the upper left background, and upper right shoulder.

Hang in...

Michael Jackson Stamp Project

Michael Jackson:

(August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
An American artist and songwriter. 

The "King of Pop" proclaimed by many!

2 Letterform Designs

Billie Holiday example

See my comments under Lakiesha's post... she is off to a good start... here is an example of how the type can be made stronger... I did a screen shot of my Photoshop document so you could see my margin lines.... If I were to post the saved jpg file, you wouldn't be able to see them

2 Letter forms by Nicole Edwards (My two daughters initials and my initials