Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design

Chip Kidd's Go: A Curious Kid's Guide to Graphic Design is a paperback book that teaches kids about graphic design through creative projects and explanations of elements like form, function, color, typography, and scale. It encourages kids to look at the world differently and explore how design can be used to make things look better. The book includes ten hands-on design projects for kids to practice their skills.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 09 June 2022
Publisher: Workman Publishing

A curious kid's guide to graphic design, covering form, function, color, typography, and much more, plus 10 hands-on design projects. Written by Chip Kidd, the closest thing to a rock star in the design world (USA Today).

Design is all around you. And whether you realize it or not, you are already a designer. In Go, renowned graphic designer Chip Kidd explains not just the elements of design, including form, line, color, scale, typography, and more, but most importantly, how to use those elements in creative ways. Like putting the word "go" on a stop sign, Go is all about shaking things up—and kids love its playful spirit and belief that the world looks better when you look at it differently. Kidd writes about scale: When a picture looks good small, don't stop there—see how it looks when it's really small. Or really big. He explains the difference between vertical lines and horizontal lines. The effect of cropping a picture to make it beautiful—or, cropping it even more to make it mysterious and compelling. How different colors signify different moods. The art of typography, including serifs and sans serifs, kerning and leading. The book ends with ten hands-on design projects for kids.

An excellent introduction to graphic design through [the authors] own excellent work. Anyone interested in the subject, including most practitioners, will find it delightful.

Dimension: 187 x 254 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781523515653