Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer in New York City. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, as well as the National Design Award for Communication Design.

Of his medallion, Kidd writes, “In Stonington, Connecticut (where I spent summers for 25 years), every Fourth of July we would all gather in the town square for the public reading of the Declaration of Independence. After the end of it, everyone was encouraged to shout, ‘And a pox on King George!’”