Good News & Bad News
Bad News First
Due to economic reasons, the National Student Conference will not be taking place this year.
Good News: The Show Must Go On
We are still organizing a National Student Show to recognize and award the best student work the nation has to show off. Winning entries will be posted online and published in a first-ever annual that will go to the top creative shops in the country.
More Good News
The original submission deadline has been moved back two months. The deadline is now April 16th, so you have more time this semester to perfect your work. So students, get your best work together, and mail in your entries for your chance at cash prizes and recognition nationwide.
More information about the show, and Entry forms to download will be posted on the official website by February.
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Look Good. Talk Good: A Portfolio & Interview Workshop Series
Look Good. Talk Good: A Portfolio & Interview Workshop Series Presented by Good For Grasshopper & We Are 1976
Most schools teach you about how to kern and rag. Most schools teach you about color and form. But not all of them teach you the part that can be the gateway between being a student designer and a real world designer. This February through April, Good For Grasshopper in partnership with We Are 1976 will be offering a series of workshops to help you make that transition—from polishing your portfolio presentation to getting an interview and acing it. At the end of the series will be a mock interview speed-dating session so you can practice what you’ve learned with some local industry leaders.
The best part is these workshops are FREE to attend! But space is limited so click here to register now.
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Books Books Books
If anyone can judge a book by its cover, it’s a designer. Whether you’re an avid reader or not, you’ll enjoy these three blogs, each of which approaches the subject of book cover design in unique and insightful ways.
1) Shelved Books: “A blog dedicated to the cover that never happened.”
The blog of designer Kimberly Glyder chronicles the journey of design from first comp to completion, with all of the revisions in-between.
What makes this blog special? Kimberly does a great job of walking through the various stages of each cover, her thoughts behind her design decisions, the publisher feedback and her thoughts on the final piece compared to earlier renditions of the design. The blog was also recently listed as one of HOW Magazine’s Top Ten Sites.
Edited by illustrator and pattern designer Julia Rothman, this collection of covers is like walking through the bookstore without having to look at all of those John Grisham best sellers. A veritable visual feast.
What makes this blog special? The books featured are mostly visual works, and are broken up into these categories: childrens, comics, design, fine art, handmade. The blog also features artists’ sketchbooks and interviews.
3) Covers
Curated by Fwis, a design firm based out of Brooklyn, NY, this may be the most comprehensive of book cover blogs I’ve found.
What makes this blog special? Covers may be user submitted, so there is a wide range of style and subject matter. Covers can be organized by designer, publisher and author. Critical comments are encouraged and provide a subjective review of each cover, and you can join in on the conversation.
Do you know of any other book cover blogs or sites? We’d love for you to share them!
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Free Encouragement Project
Jeff Hamada from Booooooom, and Design For Mankind have joined forces to create the Free Encouragement project.
There’s just too much negativity in the world. We could all use a little encouragement to get by these days. So these two have coordinated a two part project to spread some kind words across the globe! If you would like to contribute you can send your inspirational message to encouragement@booooooom.com Your message will be displayed as a simple, anonymous image in the gallery.
Here are just a few encouraging words to get you going this week.
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Competition Categories
There are 22 different categories to be awarded in the National Student Show. No matter what your specialty- there is an opportunity to get noticed, and get paid for your talents by entering this years National Student Show.
General Design
01. Logos
02. Letterhead Program
03. Packaging
04. Posters
05. Miscellaneous Design
Publication Design
06. Book Covers/Spreads
07. Magazine Covers/Spreads
08. Brochures & Catalogs
09. Annual Reports
Advertising
10. Print Advertising- General
11. Print Advertising- Pubic Service
12. Broadcast Advertising- Television or Radio
Environmental Design
13. Environmental Design
Multimedia Design
14. Interctive Design
15. Motion Graphics
Industrial Design
16. Industrial Design
Illustration
17. Illustration, single and series
18. Animation
Photography
19. Photography, single and series
Group Projects
20. Group Project
Graduate Work
21. Graduate Student Work
Total Campaign
22. Total Campaign
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A peak inside Michael Bierut’s student portfolio
One of the nations leading designers, Michael Bierut of Pentagram NY shares what it was like getting his feet wet just after graduating college and jumping in to graphic design. Full article.
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Daily Drop Cap
What a fun project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.
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Dress Code NY
I’m so excited that Andre & Dan from Dress Code NY will be speaking at the DSVC November meeting, and here are 3 reasons why you should be too (in no particular order):
Reason #1 | This is the home page of their website (as of 10pm tonight)
Reason #2 | They co-authored this great book called Never Sleep that I would recommend to any and every college student.
Reason #3 | This is some of their work.View more here.
Also be sure to check out their site Fun is Learning — a resource for everything concerning graphic design students and young professionals.
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Wisdom from Debbie Millman
If you weren’t around to see Debbie Millman’s keynote at the 3rd Annual Student Show & Conference you may want to make up for it by reading some of her words of wisdom on branding over at thedieline.com
Also keep a lookout for her new book, “Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design” set to release in October 2009.
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My How You’ve Grown
See what these students are saying about the 2008 National Student Show & Conference.
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