Join AIGA SLC for the keynote speaker for Salt Lake Design Week, Chip Kidd, presented by Adobe. During this evening, Chip will be discussing "Book Jackets I Have Known and Loved." 

Chip Kidd is an award-winning graphic designer and writer in New York. He is also an AIGA Medalist, and was recognized for possessing an intuitive understanding of narrative and creating books and book cover designs that are at once intriguing, clever and entirely unique. His groundbreaking book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have elevated the form for close to three decades. He’s worked with hundreds of writers, including John Updike, Katharine Hepburn, Cormac McCarthy, Henry Louis Gates Jr., James Ellroy, Karen Russell, Michael Crichton, David Sedaris, Sharon Olds, Orhan Pamuk, Paul Simon, Neil Gaiman, and Haruki Murakami. His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, was a national bestseller. His most recent book, Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design, is the first book to teach graphic design to children and has over 60,000 copies in print.

As an editor and art director for Pantheon Graphic novels, he’s worked with and published some of the very best cartoonists in the world, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, David Mazzucchelli, Charles Burns, Michael Cho, and Alex Ross. He is the recipient of the National Design Award for Communications, and his TED Talk has been viewed over 1.3 million times.

AIGA Members & Students - $15

Non-Members - $20

Special thanks to our presenting sponsor: Adobe

Would you like to be a sponsor of this event? Contact us at events@saltlakecity.aiga.org.