A Collective for Young Design Champions.
Welcome Collective Members! This page has been created so that you can continue to grow as a community of young designers and so that you can keep encouraging each other. Below you’ll find an entire design conference to watch at your choosing, a plethora of tutorials for you to do to expand your skillset, inspirational links, and other great resources.
Brand New Conference 2016
A few years ago the Brand New Conference put on by Underconsideration was purchased. Now you can watch it below! Check out some of the presentations by Legendary Designer and famous illustrator for French Paper Co. Charles S. Anderson and Letterpress Legend Jim Sherraden of Hatch Showprint! Plus plenty more…
Illustrator Tutorials
Most of you have seen these tutorials. But not all of you… Time to brush up on your illustrator skills. Stay tuned for some advanced ones to be posted later.
Bookbinding
Remember that workshop we were supposed to have… well this will have to do. Coming soon below you’ll find a series of tutorials on how to bind books using several different methods. Some of the methods are easy, some not so much, but try them all!
Advanced Software
So you think you’re good enough for the advanced stuff? Coming Soon, below you’ll get a chance to find out.
Leather Patch – Illustrator & Photoshop
Retro Type – Illustrator & Photoshop
New Tutorials Arriving Soon!
Requested Tutorials
Want to know something? Anything? Let us know, we’ll either create a tutorial for it, or find one and post it here for you!
Exploding Type – Illustrator
Retro Pixel and TV – Illustrator and Photoshop
New Tutorials Arriving Soon!
Inspiration
Need design inspiration? Here’s a few great places to start.
Know of something that isn’t on this list? Let us know!
- Brand New – All things Branding
- Art of the Menu – Type Hierarchy at its best
- FPO – Beautiful Production and Alt. Production
- Lovely Stationary – Great ideas of Stationary Design
- Logo Pond – Logos, Logos, and More Logos.
- Logo Lounge – Greatest Branding Publication
- Logo Lounge Trend Reports – Trending Aesthetics
- DieLine – Packaging at its finest.
- Book Design Blog – Best Source for book layouts and covers
- Ad Age – The world of advertising and marketing
- Illustration Age – Illustrators and their styles
- Awwwards – Single greatest place for great web design
Resources
Some of the best places to find the things you need. Many other great resources can be found on the SPVA Graphic Design Resources Page.
- Neenah – Paper
- Mohawk – Paper
- French Paper Co – Amazing Specialized Papers
- Sticker Mule – Stickers, Buttons, and More.
- Pexels – Stock Images
- Free Images.com – Stock Images
- Unplash – Stock Images
- Lost Type Co-op – Its free PROFESSIONAL type!
- Carmel Type Company – Type
- Letterhead Font Company – Type
- House Industries – Type
- Hollanders – Bookbinding Supplies
- Creative Market – You name it, they got it.
- You Work For Them – Purveyors of great graphics
- Talas – Bookbinding Supplies
- Subtle Patterns – and Textures (amazing resource for web)
- Rubberstamps.net – Custom Stamps
- Envelopes.com – More than just envelopes
- New Print Factory – Custom Printing (foils, emboss, etc)
- AIGA – Nations largest design organization
- AIGA Business and Ethics Manual – Textbook used in Senior Portfolio
Recipes
With the return to normal there will be more food to come in the classrooms as you compete to defeat Prof. Cotton’s expectations. However, if you lose and still want a taste of victory his homemade KitKat recipe is below.