Gips was born on March 28, 1931, in
the Bronx, to Murray Gips and Rose Gips (
née Nevins). He drew throughout his childhood. He graduated from the
Cooper Union, in addition to the
Yale School of Art. In 1958, he married copywriter
Barbara Gips. While attending Yale, he served as art director of
Monocle, a magazine, alongside Lou Klein. For two years, he also served as art director for
Time Life. He and Klein worked with
Monocle until the early 1960s, with them founding an advertising firm. In 1968, he cofounded Gips Balkind – later Frankfurt Gips Balkind, when
Stephen Frankfurt joined • ''
Rosemary's Baby'' (1968) •
Catch-22 (1970) •
Emmanuelle (1974) • ''
That's Entertainment'' (1974) •
Tommy (1975) •
The Front (1976) •
Network (1976) •
Superman (1978) •
Alien (1979) •
All That Jazz (1979) •
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) •
Absence of Malice (1981) •
Arthur (1981) •
The Verdict (1982) •
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) •
Hoosiers (1986) •
Fatal Attraction (1987) •
No Way Out (1987) •
Casualties of War (1989)
Alien,
Downhill Racer, and ''Rosemary's Baby
were voted to Premiere'''s 50 Best Movie Posters of All Time list in 2001. He sometimes collaborated with his wife Barbara, who wrote taglines. Gips also created the logos for
38 Special,
A&E,
ESPN, and
History Channel. ==References==