Announcement: Graphic Designer Chip Kidd to Speak March 3

Acclaimed graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd will speak in
Memorial Hall on March 3 from 5 to 7 PM. Kidd is credited with changing
the way modern books are packaged. Having designed more than 1,500 book
covers, including the cover for Michael Crichton's popular novel Jurassic
Park, Kidd has been called "the closest thing to a rock star" currently
working in graphic design by USA Today. The lecture is free and open to
the public.

Kidd's work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, The
New Republic, Time, The New York Times, Graphis, ID magazine, and
countless other publications. He currently serves as the associate art
director at Knopf publishing house.

His new novel The Learners is a follow-up to Kidd's 2001 national
bestselling debut The Cheese Monkeys, a satire on state college arts
students, based on Kidd's experience at Penn State.

The lecture was organized by Pratt's Undergraduate Department of
Communications Design.

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