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Chip Kidd was 26 when he designed the iconic Jurassic Park cover for Knopf. Tasked with capturing genetic resurrection without showing a living dinosaur, he visited the American Museum of Natural History and traced a T. rex skeleton from a paleontology textbook — creating a stark black silhouette that felt like an X-ray. Paired with bold blue type and Neuland Inline font, it wrapped dramatically around the spine. Crichton called it "fucking fantastic." When Universal adapted the novel in 1993, the silhouette became the franchise logo — refined with a circular border and palm trees by Sandy Collora — appearing on everything from jeeps to merchandise. A single traced image became one of the most enduring icons in popular culture.