Charles Kidd (born 1964)[2] is an American graphic designer known for book covers. (wikipedia)
Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...
If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.
I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.
I originally thought of that shot of the tea set covered in the ash from 9/11.
The lobby there, ... is the sort of place where you walk in and you feel like you're there to sign a treaty.
I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.