Hi. My name is Avery Youngblood. I'm an independent designer based in New Haven.

Please email me for inquiries about my portfolio, collaborations, or jobs.


My history of education...

2023

Yale University, School of Art

MFA, Graphic Design

2018

The New School, Parsons School of Design

AAS, Graphic Design

2018

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices

MFA (exchange program with Parsons)

2016

Stanford University

BA, Linguistics and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Professional work experience as a designer thus far...

2021

Google

RARE with Google Creative Fellowship

brand studio visual designer

2019

Ogilvy

art direction and design intern

2018

karlssonwilker. inc

freelance designer

2018

Droga5

summer design intern

2018

R+ Agency

freelance designer

2017

Major League Baseball

summer design intern

Skills that I am always developing for the future...

Adobe Suite

HTML / CSS / JS

C4D

Sketch

Invision

Unity

Independent projects, collaborations, and courses in the works...

2021

March

Website, exhibition identity and printed matter with Luiza Dale for Yale Sculpture Thesis Show, it clings like a leech https://itclings.yaleschoolofart.org/

February

Book cover design for Letters of Love and Memory by legendary Detroit poet, activist, and educator Aneb Kgositsile (the publication is an anthology of some of her favorite poems that reflect the persistence of love and beauty throughout our African world) - this publication was made possible by Invincible / ill Weaver and Wesley Taylor of Complex Movements Collective, Emergence Media, and Talking Dolls Studio in Detroit, in collaboration with risograph printing by Jessica Flemming

2020

November

Website and pamphlet publication with Herdimas Anggara for Dr. Annie Harper (Program for Recovery and Community Health, Yale School of Medicine) and Dr. Tommaso Bardelli (New York University) at https://justicefinance.org/ this resource can be used as a guide to organize and simplify the complicated task of navigating the criminal justice system in Connecticut

October

Poster, animation and symbols for Sonic Rupture sculpture exhibition by Amina Ross that contemplates the end and the beginning of the world through blackness and queerness and revolt / revolution

August

COLLINS Studio 7-week typography workshop exploring the role design plays in the development of culture, ideals, and power structures in our world

April

Website for Yale School of Art Graphic Design spring semester final reviews https://spring-semester-2020-review.netlify.app/ of my work from that semester

March

Website with Alvin Ashiatey https://we-need-to-talk.netlify.app/ that is a space for further conversation about design and art among BIPOC artists and designers (in progress)

Website experimenting with HTML and CSS for the first time https://loving-lists.netlify.app/ and some JS https://loving-lists.netlify.app/TIME:ICE



This website is designed and maintained by Avery and typeset in Inconsolata by Raph Levien at Google Fonts. This website is built with old school HTML5 and some loving CSS3 and hosted by Github.