Book covers = Buggy whips?
NPR recently spoke to famed cover designer Chip Kidd (and the man I once had an intense conversation with over the buffet line only to realize I thought he was someone else) about book covers.
In the olden days, a reader might pick up a book because the cover was exciting, intriguing, maybe even beautiful. But in the brave new world of e-books and e-readers, the days when an artist named Chip Kidd could make us reach for a book may be gone.
Read - and listen - to the story here.
In the olden days, a reader might pick up a book because the cover was exciting, intriguing, maybe even beautiful. But in the brave new world of e-books and e-readers, the days when an artist named Chip Kidd could make us reach for a book may be gone.
Read - and listen - to the story here.
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