Welcome to Kickstarter! This article will point you toward some of the Kickstarter Arts Team's favorite resources, tips, and tools when making a campaign in the Arts, Photography, and Fashion categories.
Whether you're printing your first photobook, making a sustainable sportswear line, or building a new monument for your community, see how some of our favorite past creators priced their rewards, planned outreach, and made their project possible.
As a first step, we recommend checking out our Creator Handbook.
If you’re a student of art, we’ve collated some helpful resources, guides, and tools to assist you with your Kickstarter campaign.
We’ve also collated some guides, tools, and tips to help non-profit organizations.
These fashion creators share their tips on preparing for your project, telling your story, engaging your community, preparing for manufacturing, and transitioning after funding.
Make sure to check out this creative person’s guide to thoughtful promotion from our friends at The Creative Independent too.
Robin Cembalest, an editorial strategist, shares tips for using Instagram as an artist.
Here are 5 tips for running a fashion project, from Kickstarter creators We Flashy.
Sonya Sombreuil of the fashion label, COME TEES, talks about evolving a DIY art project into a sustainable business.
MVEC founder Grégory Gaydu shares what he learnt from running his first Kickstarter project, where he created a line of upcycled denim jackets customized by artists.
Designer artisans, Whitaker Malem, spoke with our colleagues at TCI about fetishizing your own process.
The designers behind fashion brand, Eckhaus Latta, talk about working together.
In 2018, we reached the milestone of 2 million backers pledging $100 million to projects within the Art category.
Check out this piece by our Senior Director of Arts, Patton Hindle, on why artists should be allowed to fail.
And lastly, be sure to read this creative person’s guide to feeling healthy.
If you’re looking for some inspiration, take a look at the Fashion Explore page. We’ve also shared some of our favorite projects below:
Computational Textiles is a series of woven fabrics by artist and designer Philip Stearns, that explore the full horizon of working with textiles as a computational medium.
Breanne Trammell sought to connect with people through the act of performing manicures. She took her mobile nail salon, a canned ham trailer, on the road for her Nails In The Key Of Life project.
Using recycled plastic bottles that are a result of the Flint Water Crisis, Genusee used Kickstarter to create sustainable eyewear.
Jea Alford wanted to provide a Uniform to all artists. So for every Artist Uniforms smock a backer pledged for, one was sent for free to a practicing artist.
What Lydia Made is a contemporary brand creating modern, design led, comfortable underwear in sizes up to M cup and everything in between.
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Ready to take the plunge and start your Fashion project? Go ahead and begin building it now - we're excited to see your creative idea come to life!