Elizabeth Goodspeed

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Elizabeth Goodspeed reveals the industry’s ongoing tension around identity, ambition and scale. https://ow.ly/xTc150XBTmR

Elizabeth Goodspeed on how many designers it takes to make a studio The question of what counts as a “studio” – and what you call one – reveals the industry’s ongoing tension around identity, ambition and scale.

How many designers does it take to be a studio? I wrote about how "studio" has shifted from structural descriptor to signal; shorthand for how a practice wants to be read. But as "studio" stops signaling size + authority, do mythologies around growth collapse too? www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

Sunset Over Sunset Explore the histories of Los Angeles's iconic Sunset Boulevard through the photographs of artist Ed Ruscha.

I wrote about the changing typographic landscape of Sunset Strip as seen through Ed Ruscha’s photos of the street from 1965-2007. Published on Sunset Over Sunset, a new website from @gettymuseum.bsky.social that explores different stories of urban LA history 🪧 www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories/signs

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Sunset Over Sunset Explore the histories of Los Angeles's iconic Sunset Boulevard through the photographs of artist Ed Ruscha.

LA palette cleanse: really great graphic design deep dive into the Ruscha Sunset archive by @goodspeed.bsky.social focusing on the evolution of the signage

www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories/signs

A chat with Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivst - Flickr Foundation

Thank you to the folks at the @flickrfdn.bsky.social for asking me some truly fantastic questions about archiving, the ephemeral nature of digital archiving, and what I've learned from working with Brits. (As ever, Flickr remains the best website on the internet!!!) www.flickr.org/a-chat-with-...

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design studios are making fonts Custom type has become branding’s newest obsession, promising control, originality, and ownership – but its rapid rise is reshaping the culture and economy of type design itself.

Brand designers love the control, originality and ownership of making their own fonts. But how is custom type reshaping the culture and economy of type design itself? I wrote about why so many design studios are creating fonts and what it means for the rest of us! www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why custom type has become branding’s newest obsession. https://ow.ly/zBwn50XgWpQ

@goodspeed.bsky.social on what happens when design becomes prefab. ow.ly/qB1f50X29HY

YouTube video by Air AI, Taste & Making Stuff That Matters — Pablo Rochat x Elizabeth Goodspeed (Live at On Air)

I spoke alongside Pablo Rochat at Air's inaugural creative summit "Age of Aquarius"—we talked about about craft vs. creativity, the early AI ~*fever dream*~ aesthetic, and why actually making stuff still matters! Recorded here → youtu.be/F0QWo8R_jA0

Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when design becomes prefab Designer-led platforms promise to let you make money from unused concepts. But as off-the-shelf brand identities become the norm, designers risk losing the equity, authorship, and evolution that come ...

My newest column for @its-nice-that.bsky.social is about the rise of pre-fab brand kits, "move fast and break things," and how identity is often starting to matter more than product! ⏱️ www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

Kindred Spirits Today’s collection is an archive of materials from the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a short-lived British youth movement founded in 1920 by John Hargrave, a Utopian polymath described as an “author, car...

New Casual Archivist issue about one of my favorite niche collectives, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift—a 1920s radical Utopian scouting group dedicated to handicraft 🦊 casualarchivist.substack.com/p/kindred-sp...

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A fantastic collection of vintage diner table mats, in today’s Casual Archvist newsletter.
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Some new (old) work for At Heart Panadería in Atlanta—a riso-printed cookbook zine <3

How Efficient Are AI Moodboards Anyway? Thanks to the rise of AI, the design industry has found itself caught in a power struggle between efficiency and creativity.

Thank you to Chloe Gordon Cordover at The Dieline for chatting with me about moodboarding and design multiverses! thedieline.com/how-efficien...

A magazine page scan. It reads "Kingdom" at the top followed by a series of programming instructions for a game.

A spread from “Sinclair Programs”, a magazine that shared BASIC software for readers to copy. Some of these go pretty hard. via @goodspeed.bsky.social casualarchivist.substack.com/p/full-spect...

Avant les IAg, avant Stackoverflow et Reddit, avant les forums BBS et les blogs, avant les mailings lists, les magazines de code : comme le très stylé Sinclair Programs dégotté par @goodspeed.bsky.social

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The Good, the Bad, and the Iffy: is there such a thing as an ethical designer? Designers from Pentagram, Koto, Creech, and more talk candidly about the murky waters of client selection, the logistics and risks of rejecting work on moral grounds, and how to keep afloat without lo...

Happy to have been able to contribute some thoughts to @goodspeed.bsky.social’s latest piece for @its-nice-that.bsky.social.

It’s great to see an article on design ethics consider type and UX, which generally don’t follow the typical client–agency model.

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Thank you so much to Breed London for having me as a guest on season 3 of their wonderful podcast! We talked about how I got into writing, the line between inspiration and appropriation, and why the phrase "vintage-inspired" keeps me up at night. breedlondon.com/breed-presen...

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the rise of the designer as influencer As social platforms reward visibility, creatives are increasingly expected to make their practice public. Designers are no longer just making work; they are the work. But what started as promotion now...

For my It’s Nice That column this month, I wrote about the rise of the exhibitionist designer–influencer, and what happens when sharing the work starts to be more important than the work itself 🤳 www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

And Also With You Today’s collection is a set of Christian propaganda posters printed and distributed across China from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.

I published a new issue of my Casual Archivist newsletter today about Christian propaganda posters and the challenges of cross-cultural communication ⛪ casualarchivist.substack.com/p/and-also-w...

YouTube video by Typographics Typographics 2025 Conference, Day 1

I had so much fun speaking about design history at the Typographics Festival yesterday (even though people did NOT laugh at my Pagliacci joke). The livestream of the talks will be up for another day or two if you'd like to watch the recording of mine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDNX...

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I also made the single covers for the Baby Rose and Japanese Breakfast songs featured in the film!

I designed the vinyl soundtrack for A24’s Materialists💍

For an article on aphrodisiacs!

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