Chad W. Beckerman is a cover artist for Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) along with Jeff Kinney. He helped create the cover for all of the books up until after Wrecking Ball.
Chad W. Beckerman is an award-winning designer and creative director at ABRAMS, where he oversees the design of picture books, novels and graphic novels under the Abrams Appleseed, Abrams Books for Young Readers, Amulet Books, and Abrams ComicArts imprints.
He is the designer behind such successful children series as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Origami Yoda, NERDS Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, Frank Einstein and The Terrible Two.
He has been a judge for several illustration competitions such as Society Of Illustrators Annual 53, Communication Arts Illustration Annual 54: 2013, American Illustration 32, 2014 SCBWI New York Show Illustration Judge and the New York Book Show 2014.
He studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design.