Young Guns
Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!
1998: Realizing it had struck a chord with the creative community, the Art Directors Club launched Young Guns 2, putting out a call for more New York-based nominations. By way of a ten-person selection committee, 93 young artists and designers were welcomed into the second Young Guns class.
Young Guns 2
Kevin Brainard
Creative Director, Designer, Educator, Founding Partner Area of Practice New York
Area of Practice partners with business leaders to develop systems and create branded experiences between print and digital—focusing on strategy, information hierarchy, brand voice, typography, innovative design, and meaningful imagery.
Kevin has also served as the senior design director of the strategy and brand experience design company COLLINS, the design director of Martha Stewart Living and More, an art director at HarperCollins Publishers and Artisan Books as well as the senior designer at SpotCo (Spot Design).
Kevinʼs work has been recognized by AIGA Communication Graphics (365), and 50 Books/50 Covers; American Center for Design 100 Show; Art Directors Club; American Illustration; Communication Arts; Émigré; Graphis; Metropolis; New York Book Show; Print; Society of Publication Designers, Type Directors Club; and included in ADC Young Guns 2.
Books featuring his work include Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design; Citizen Designer, Second Edition; Graphic Design Solutions; Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age; Head to Toe: The Nude in Design; I Love Type, Franklin Gothic; The Language of Graphic Design; Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad, and Beautiful; New Modernist Type; New Vintage Type; Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty; Sight for Sound; Teaching Graphic Design; and Type Speaks; amongst others.
He teaches undergraduate Senior Graphic Design Portfolio and graduate Design and Branding at the School of Visual Arts as well as Experimental Typography at Parsons School of Design
Award:
1998 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Kevin Brainard
Client:
Private
Title:
Adc bookcovers 2048w
Category:
YG2
Annual ID:
adc_bookcovers_2048w.jpg
Award:
1998 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Kevin Brainard
Client:
Private
Title:
Adc knicks 2048
Category:
YG2
Annual ID:
adc_knicks_2048.jpg
Award:
1998 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Kevin Brainard
Client:
Private
Title:
Adc more opener 2048w
Category:
YG2
Annual ID:
adc_more_opener_2048w.jpg
Award:
1998 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Kevin Brainard
Client:
Private
Title:
Adc msft 2048w
Category:
YG2
Annual ID:
adc_msft_2048w.jpg
Award:
1998 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Kevin Brainard
Client:
Private
Title:
Mor0712 resilience 2048w
Category:
YG2
Annual ID:
mor0712_resilience_2048w.jpg