Joe Doucet
Encyclopedia
Joe Doucet is a designer
, artist
, architect
, furniture designer and inventor who lives and works in New York City
.
.
He is perhaps the only notable designer of Cajun
descent.
In 1999, Doucet completed his studies at Art Center College of Design
in the field of Communication Design.
for which we received numerous awards. Later, expressing a dissatisfaction with the ephemeral nature of that work he began his evolution into a multi-faceted designer. His portfolio therefore encompasses furniture
, consumer electronics
, corporate identity
, jewelry, fashion
, technology, children’s toys, photography
and architecture
, delivering innovation across a variety of industries.
Doucet has worked with clients as diverse as Moët & Chandon, Braun
, Target, Armani, Coty, P&G, Disney, Playboy
and Missoni
. His commercial work is matched by his desire to develop innovations that quite simply make life better, an example of which is his design for the Airate Wind turbine for which he was nominate for a 2010 World Technology Award.
His work has been featured in countless publications and extensively exhibited internationally. He is widely regarded as leading the next great wave of American design.
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
, furniture designer and inventor who lives and works in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Early life and education
Doucet was born in Houston, Texas to an artist mother and an iron-worker father. He grew up in the city of Terrell, TexasTerrell, Texas
Terrell is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States, and a southeastern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 13,606...
.
He is perhaps the only notable designer of Cajun
Cajun
Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles...
descent.
In 1999, Doucet completed his studies at Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...
in the field of Communication Design.
Career
Doucet began his career in advertising working primarily as a graphic designerGraphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
for which we received numerous awards. Later, expressing a dissatisfaction with the ephemeral nature of that work he began his evolution into a multi-faceted designer. His portfolio therefore encompasses furniture
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
, consumer electronics
Consumer electronics
Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...
, corporate identity
Corporate identity
In Corporate Communications, a corporate identity is the "persona" of a corporation which is designed to accord with and facilitate the attainment of business objectives...
, jewelry, fashion
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
, technology, children’s toys, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
and architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, delivering innovation across a variety of industries.
Doucet has worked with clients as diverse as Moët & Chandon, Braun
Braun
Braun is a common surname, originating from the German word for the color brown. The name is the 22nd most common family name in Germany. Many German emigrants to the United States also changed their name to Brown ....
, Target, Armani, Coty, P&G, Disney, Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
and Missoni
Missoni
Missoni is an Italian fashion house based in Varese. It is famous for its unique knitwear, made from a variety of fabrics in colourful patterns. The company was founded by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni in 1953.-Brands:...
. His commercial work is matched by his desire to develop innovations that quite simply make life better, an example of which is his design for the Airate Wind turbine for which he was nominate for a 2010 World Technology Award.
His work has been featured in countless publications and extensively exhibited internationally. He is widely regarded as leading the next great wave of American design.
Awards and honors
- 2010 World Technology Award Nominee, November 2010
- Biennale International Design 2010 November 2010, Sainte-Etienne, France
- The MunNY Exhibit May, 2010
- Design Museum London November 2009-May 2010 featured in Dieter Rams exhibit
- AvantGuardian for Design 2009 Surface Magazine
- BeLowTech May 2009 Solo Studio Exhibit Milk Gallery
- This is Bond. May 2008 Solo Studio Exhibit Pommegranite Gallery, Soho, New York
- Good Design Award 2008 Household
- International Package Design Award 2008 Luxury Category for Artistry
- Wallpaper October 2006 Bespoke project for Chivas 18
- http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/89/fasttalk.html Fast Company 5 Young Professionals to Watch] November 2004
- Intotointotem Totem Gallery August 2003 Solo Exhibit
- D&AD Poster series for New York 9/11 2002
Publications
- Young Designers Americas Hardcover: Publisher: daab; Mul edition (June 2006), ISBN 3937718400
- Pure Design - Objetos de Deseo Hardcover: 256 pages, Publisher: Monsa (May 2006), Language: Spanish, ISBN 8496429318
- Food Design Hardcover: 400 pages, Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company (January 30, 2006), ISBN 3832790535
- Circles and Dots Publisher: RotoVision (October 1, 2006), Language: English, ISBN 2940361169
- Mocoloco
- The National, UAE
- Fast Company