About
Elizabeth Goodspeed is an independent designer and art director specializing in idea-driven and historically inspired branding, editorial design, and packaging. In addition to her commercial work, Goodspeed also writes and gives talks about design history, aesthetic trends, public domain materials and other archive- and ephemera-related topics.
Side Projects
How to Live on Love dives into the peculiar and unexplored typography of the romance and erotic paperback genre. This riso-printed compendium features an essay on the history and design of romance novels, as well as a wide assortment of lettering samples pulled from erotic pulp covers spanning 1945-1985.
Speaking
Writing
Creative directors are taking a page from editorial photography to capture products in up close and personal hyper-reality.
Clip art rose to ubiquity in the 1950s. Over the years, it became a mirror for the conversations happening in society.
With their expressive type and bawdy illustrations, romance novels turned book covers into potent advertisements.
Designers across the country share their big bets, areas of focus, and ways to move the industry forward this year.
Art direction is a flat circle
Bite into the history of the squishy sans serifs making scrolling sweeter.
In all their tight-type, neon-colored, advertorial glory
The Nouveau Rebus is bringing back dingbats and glyphs one DTC branding project at a time
When it comes to website footers, bigger is better.
"Jugend-ish" typefaces embody modern self-expression
Features
For the twenty-third interview in the series, we spoke with Elizabeth Goodspeed, an independent designer, and the second 'Design Director in Residence' at New York-based creative studio High Tide.
The Providence-based designer tells us about her love of printed material and how she nearly followed a more scientific path.
Work Experience
Education
Cognitive science major with a focus in visual perception, color processing, and cognitive neuroscience. Student in the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program.
Graphic Design major. Student in the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program