Kevin Brainard

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Principal, Pleasure

MFA Design CE Design
kevinbrainard.com

Education

BFA, School of Visual Arts


Professional experience includes

Senior design director, Collins; deputy design director, Martha Stewart Living; art director, HarperCollins; senior designer, SpotCo


Current and former clients include

Arnold Worldwide; AIGA; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; The New York Times; Scribner; Vintage Books; Simon & Schuster; MTV Networks; Alfred A. Knopf; W.W. Norton & Company; Arnell Group; Faber & Faber; New York Press; Pantheon; Picador; Westport Country Playhouse


Publications include

American Illustration; Art Directors Club Annual; Communication Arts; Graphics Today; Entertainment Weekly; HOW; The New York Times; Print; Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad, and Beautiful; Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age; Sight for Sound; Type Directors Club Annual


Awards and honors include

Art Directors Club Young Guns, Telly, AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers