Elizabeth Goodspeed is an independent, multidisciplinary designer, art director and educator living in Providence and working between New England and the New York tristate area. As a professional designer, she’s a devoted generalist but specializes in idea-driven and historically inspired editorial and identity design. Her clients include Google, HBO, MAC Cosmetics, The NYC Parks Department, Planned Parenthood, REI, Spotify, The Whitney Museum and many other startups and new businesses. Studio collaborators include Moniker, Pentagram, Porto Rocha, Red Antler and Mythology.
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. She’s interested in the cyclical patterns of visual culture and the impact that everyday, workhorse graphic design has had on the larger creative landscape over time. She’s also a graduate of the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program and Type@Cooper’s Condensed Program.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
GRAPH 3210-02 - DESIGN STUDIO 1
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3210-02
DESIGN STUDIO 1
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Elizabeth GoodspeedLocation(s): Design Center, Room 208Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In the first two semesters of a two-year studio track, students will come into contact with issues and questions that face the contemporary designer. Students will engage with and develop methods to take on these questions: search (formal and intellectual), research, analysis, ideation, and prototyping. Projects will increase in complexity over time, sequenced to evolve from guided inquiry to more open, self-generated methodologies. Some examples of the questions students might work with are: What is graphic? or How are tools shaped by contemporary culture, technology, and convention? or How is a spatial or dimensional experience plotted and communicated? These questions will be accompanied by a mix of precedents, theoretical contexts, readings and presentations, technical and/or formal exercises and working methods.
Please contact the department for permission to register.
Major Requirement | BFA Graphic Design
Spring 2025 Courses
GRAPH 3216-05 - DESIGN STUDIO 4
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2025
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3216-05
DESIGN STUDIO 4
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM; W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Elizabeth GoodspeedLocation(s): Design Center, Room 208Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Students are expected to develop personal working methods and interests through more general questions posed by the faculty. Longer-term projects will be intermixed with shorter projects posed by visiting critics. Students should complete the Design Studio track with a developed sense of self, and able to start framing questions and lines of inquiries of their own. End forms will be more emphasized than in Design Studio 1 and 2, in part as evidence that craft and working methods are sufficiently evolved. The twice-a-week format is intended for juniors or advanced designers who have completed the first two semesters of Design Studio or an equivalent design principles track.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Junior Graphic Design Students.
