Chip Kidd Talks About Designing the Cover for Murakami’s 1Q84

On the occasion of his 25th anniversary of designing book covers for Knopf, Chip Kidd discusses the design for the

The American version.

On the occasion of his 25th anniversary of designing book covers for Knopf, Chip Kidd discusses the design for the cover of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, 1Q84. Mr. Kidd engaged in “positive-negative play with the cover and the binding” that allows the subject on the cover to “exist in two different planes of reality.”

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The British version.

Chip Kidd Talks About Designing the Cover for Murakami’s 1Q84