Elizabeth Goodspeed
@goodspeed.bsky.social
Independent designer, writer, trend spotter, & casual archivist (she/her)
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-...
A chat with Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivst - Flickr Foundation
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November 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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-...
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 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.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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...
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Elizabeth Goodspeed on why custom type has become branding’s newest obsession. https://ow.ly/zBwn50XgWpQ
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Elizabeth Goodspeed on why custom type has become branding’s newest obsession. https://ow.ly/zBwn50XgWpQ
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September 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
AI, Taste & Making Stuff That Matters — Pablo Rochat x Elizabeth Goodspeed (Live at On Air)
YouTube video by Air
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October 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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
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...
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 ...
www.itsnicethat.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
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...
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...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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And thanks @goodspeed.bsky.social
More open.substack.com/pub/casualar...
And thanks @goodspeed.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A fantastic collection of vintage diner table mats, in today’s Casual Archvist newsletter.
More open.substack.com/pub/casualar...
And thanks @goodspeed.bsky.social
More open.substack.com/pub/casualar...
And thanks @goodspeed.bsky.social
Some new (old) work for At Heart Panadería in Atlanta—a riso-printed cookbook zine <3
September 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Some new (old) work for At Heart Panadería in Atlanta—a riso-printed cookbook zine <3
Thank you to Chloe Gordon Cordover at The Dieline for chatting with me about moodboarding and design multiverses! thedieline.com/how-efficien...
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.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thank you to Chloe Gordon Cordover at The Dieline for chatting with me about moodboarding and design multiverses! thedieline.com/how-efficien...
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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...
July 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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...
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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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August 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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
casualarchivist.substack.com/p/full-spect...
casualarchivist.substack.com/p/full-spect...
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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.
www.itsnicethat.com/features/is-...
It’s great to see an article on design ethics consider type and UX, which generally don’t follow the typical client–agency model.
www.itsnicethat.com/features/is-...
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...
www.itsnicethat.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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.
www.itsnicethat.com/features/is-...
It’s great to see an article on design ethics consider type and UX, which generally don’t follow the typical client–agency model.
www.itsnicethat.com/features/is-...
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...
Breed Presents… The Podcast with Elizabeth Goodspeed - Breed
TO LISTEN CLICK HERE Breed Presents… The Podcast with Elizabeth Goodspeed Elizabeth Goodspeed is the guest for our latest edition of Breed Presents… The Podcast. Elizabeth is the US Editor-at-Large fo...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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...
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...
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...
www.itsnicethat.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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...
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...
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.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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...
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...
Typographics 2025 Conference, Day 1
YouTube video by Typographics
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June 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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...
I designed the vinyl soundtrack for A24’s Materialists💍
June 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I designed the vinyl soundtrack for A24’s Materialists💍
As a long-time hoarder of cowboy ephemera, I had a blast doing the identity + illos (coming soon) for Drugstore Cowboy, a new newsletter about the pharmaceutical industry from Alec Ginsberg, COO at C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries drugstorecowboy.com
Drugstore Cowboy
Exposing the hype, hustle, and hidden truths behind America’s drug obsession from behind the counter of its most iconic apothecary.
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June 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
As a long-time hoarder of cowboy ephemera, I had a blast doing the identity + illos (coming soon) for Drugstore Cowboy, a new newsletter about the pharmaceutical industry from Alec Ginsberg, COO at C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries drugstorecowboy.com
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I love this cover (one of two by @goodspeed.bsky.social) for the May/June issue of The Magazine Antiques, brilliantly edited by Michael Diaz-Griffith. I was chuffed as heck to be asked to write about period rooms, whose stories they tell, and who we are (multiple choice question) when we visit one.
May 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I love this cover (one of two by @goodspeed.bsky.social) for the May/June issue of The Magazine Antiques, brilliantly edited by Michael Diaz-Griffith. I was chuffed as heck to be asked to write about period rooms, whose stories they tell, and who we are (multiple choice question) when we visit one.
If you are a designer who gets to choose your own projects, are there any industries you won't work within for ethical reasons? Cigarettes, AI, gambling, seed oils, political campaigns, etc.? I'd love to hear what + talk to you for a piece!
May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you are a designer who gets to choose your own projects, are there any industries you won't work within for ethical reasons? Cigarettes, AI, gambling, seed oils, political campaigns, etc.? I'd love to hear what + talk to you for a piece!
More ice cream posters for Big Feeling!
May 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
More ice cream posters for Big Feeling!
I designed a special edition cover for the May/June Collector’s Edition of The Magazine ANTIQUES! Big thanks to guest editor + pal Michael Diaz-Griffith for the commission—and for his generous description of the collage as "channeling wide-ranging curiosity and time-traveling ingenuity" 🥲
April 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I designed a special edition cover for the May/June Collector’s Edition of The Magazine ANTIQUES! Big thanks to guest editor + pal Michael Diaz-Griffith for the commission—and for his generous description of the collage as "channeling wide-ranging curiosity and time-traveling ingenuity" 🥲
I Spy with my little eye... Bobby Doherty for Homme Girls, Casey Zhang for Spinelli Kilcollin, Crown Affair x éliou, and Ginoe for Vogue Phillipines 🕵️♀️
April 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I Spy with my little eye... Bobby Doherty for Homme Girls, Casey Zhang for Spinelli Kilcollin, Crown Affair x éliou, and Ginoe for Vogue Phillipines 🕵️♀️