Portfolio Scholarship Winners
DSVC College Tuition Scholarship
Hector Arellano- UNT
DSVC Sophomore Portfolio
Lauren Schimming- University of Kansas
Dick Sloan Portfolio Prize
Michael Selby- University of Kansas
Padgett Award
Jason Perez- UNT
Jump Start Scholarship
Daniel Fuhrer- UNT
Zach Hale- UNT
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Creativity Can Come From Anywhere
Poster Build from DSVC Student Show on Vimeo.
Now’s the time! Get your entries in by April 16th
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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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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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