Chip Kidd

I think he was a really interesting because he's not like most people and its cool to see how he thinks. I really liked his book cover that made it seem like the type was running, I tried it on my cover to see if i could make it look like the things on my page were actual tears but it did not turn out so well. The Jurassic book cover inspired one of my designs to push the tiger to a more creative form instead of what people normally see. To  book designers responsibility three fold to reader, publisher, and Author. I think that the budah spine design was really clever to prompt people to buy all of the books to see the life of the budah. I also like on how intrigue and murder among 16th century Ottoman court painters that he took the time to explain how the story is on the cover and how its suppose to keep you intrigued and show you a little bit more the further you pull it out of the shelf. the John updike cover is interesting because you don't really know what your looking at and theres a since of mystery that makes the cover compelling. Haruki Murakami is interesting because of the transparency and the fact that the person is kind of hidden but still visible and i like that its simple.