UnBeige Makes the Kidd/Vanderbilt Connection

By Neal 

It’s no secret that Stephanie Murg, the co-editor of mediabistro.com’s design industry blog, UnBeige, is a huge Chip Kidd fan (just like us!), so we weren’t surprised to see her writing about the cover Kidd designed for Obsession, an “erotic tale” by Gloria Vanderbilt, which features striking photography of mannequin heads from the author’s personal collection (which Murg links thematically to an earlier Kidd cover for a Haruki Murakami novel). UnBeige also showcases the first page of the novel—Kidd created the interior look-and-feel as well as the cover—so you may want to check that post out…