The majority of records in this series consist of textual, photographic and graphic material related to the earliest iterations of Coupland’s website. In 1996, Coupland launched Coupland.com. This website incorporated prose pieces, various digital renderings of artwork he had created in the past and digital images and collages created specifically for the website. Material crated for the website also influenced Coupland’s later literary and visual art projects.

Series consists of records related to film, television and stage productions that Coupland has been involved with. Records include drafts of screenplays, scripts, publicity, props, call sheets administrative documents, set sketches, video cassettes, and other records related to the creation and publication of Coupland’s dramatic projects.

This series contains records related to the following projects:

• Generation X (conceptual art video about the book, ca. 1992)
• Hiroshima 95 peace commercials (texts from Life After God used for commercials)
• MTV 30 second art films (ca. 1995),
• Close Personal Friend (documentary written by and featuring Coupland, ca. 1995),
• Mom’s Cookies (screenplay co-written by Coupland and Ian Verchere),
• Mon Amour Mon Parapluie (in which Coupland appeared as an actor, 2001)
• Analogs (screenplay written by Coupland and Ian Verchere, ca. 2000)
• September 10 (play written and performed by Coupland, September 2004)
• Everything’s Gone Green (film written and co-produced by Coupland)(ca. 2005)
• Souvenir of Canada (NFB documentary adaptation of Coupland's book, featuring Coupland, 2005)
• JPod (television series co-written and co-produced by Coupland, ca. 2006)
• A Man, A Plan, A Canal (screenplay written by Coupland in 2006)

This series consists primarily of mail, artwork and objects received by Coupland from fans. Also included in this series are various sketches and drawings created by fans and collected by Coupland during book tour events. After approximately the year 2000, most of Coupland’s fan mail began to arrive digitally, and is therefore not included with the first accrual of his fonds.

Also included in this series are records relating to the academic study of Douglas Coupland's work by others, including correspondence with students and copies of dissertations and theses.

Series relates to Coupland’s venture into clothing design in collaboration with Roots Canada Ltd. Under the tagline “Canada Goes Electric,” Coupland designed a limited-edition clothing line as well as various leather goods which were released in stores and online in 2010. This project marked the first time that Roots partnered with an outside designer in this way.

Series includes textual records relating to the design and research of the clothing items. Also included in the series are finished production garments and leather goods, as well as items not approved for production; strikeoffs; fabric and leather samples; and finishing material such as patches, zippers, labels, and fasteners.

This series includes drafts, correspondence, and clippings related to Coupland’s work as a journalist. Most records in this series were created while Coupland worked for the following periodicals:

• Vancouver Voice (ca. 1984)
• Vancouver Sun (ca. 1987)
• Vancouver (1987-1989)
• Western Living (ca. 1988)
• Vista (ca. 1989-1990)
• Wired (ca. 1994)
• Wallpaper (ca. 1998-1999)
• Blackbook (ca. 2000)
• Joe (ca. 2000)
• NY Times (ca. 1994-2008)

Series consists of records relating to Coupland’s public appearances. The records include speaking notes, videocassettes, publicity and other ephemera related to these events. Series includes records relating to the following speaking events and interviews:

• Vancouver Art Gallery Docents (1987)
• Radio interviews with CBC and other stations (ca. 1990)
• American Association of Feature Editors (1999)
• Speech at UBC’s Green College (2000)
• Today show appearance (ca. 1993)
• Duthie Lecture at the Vancouver Writer’s Festival (2002)
• ECIAD honorary doctorate acceptance speech (ca. 2001)
• IdeaCity lecture (ca. 2002)
• Speech to the graduating class of Lower Canada College (2004)
• Emission television show interview (ca. 2004)
• Canadian Art Gallery gala dinner, hosted by Coupland (ca. 2001)
• UBC, Arts Last Lecture Speech (2008)
• Trudeau Foundation speech (2008)

Series includes books annotated by Coupland that were used as “reading copies” during his book tours. Annotated reading copies include:

• Girlfriend in a Coma
• All Families are Psychotic
• Hey Nostradamus
• JPod

Series also includes speaking notes, travel documents and schedules for Coupland's Massey lecture series in which he read his novel Player One in five lectures in five Canadian cities in 2010. Dates of the lectures were as follows:

• Vancouver on October 12
• Regina on October 14
• Charlottetown on October 19
• Ottawa on October 25
• Toronto on October 29

Series consists of records relating primarily to Coupland’s 21 published literary works (14 fiction and 7 non-fiction). Records in this series include:

• Annotated handwritten and typed drafts of major works
• Correspondence with publishers
• Cover mock-ups
• Pre-draft conceptual writings
• Research notes and
• Photographs and graphic material related to Coupland’s pictorial non-fiction books
• Publicity material relating to books including stickers, tshirts and posters

Series includes records related to the following projects:

Fiction

• Player One (2010)
• Generation A (2009)
• Extinction Event stylebook (Extinction Event is a 2009 television series in which Coupland has been involved).
• The Gum Thief (2007)
• JPod (2006)
• Eleanor Rigby (2004)
• Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
• All Families are Psychotic (2001)
• God Hates Japan (2001)
• 2080 Stylebook (a unique hand-book about the future created by Coupland that later influenced his other pictorial works such as Souvenir of Canada, ca. 2000)
• Miss Wyoming (1999)
• Girlfriend in a Coma (1997)
• Microserfs (1995)
• Life After God (1993)
• Canada Goose (self-published novella, 1993)
• Shampoo Planet (1992)
• Generation X (1991)
• 1991 (unpublished novel written ca. 1982)

Non-Fiction

• Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan (2009)
• Terry-The Life of Canadian Terry Fox (2005)
• Souvenir of Canada 2 (2004)
• School Spirit (2002)
• Souvenir of Canada (2002)
• City of Glass (2000)
• Polaroids from the Dead (1996)

Series consists of records related to Coupland’s personal and administrative affairs. This diverse series includes:

• Personal notes and memos written by Coupland for family, friends and staff
• Correspondence received by Coupland from family, friends and business associates.
• Administrative correspondence received by Coupland from agents, publishers and other associates.
• Receipts, bulls and other financial records
• Personal and administrative faxes (sent and received primarily in 1993 and 1994).
• Personal photographs taken by Coupland and his family
• Miscellaneous ephemera collected by Coupland

This series also contains records relating to Coupland’s administrative affairs.
Administrative records include contracts, receipts, correspondence received from book publishers, scheduling correspondence and insurance papers. Some files in this series are financial records of Coupland’s company, Planet X created between 1992 and 1994.

Among those who Coupland received correspondence, artwork or photographs from are the following well-known artists and writers:

• Toni Onley
• Gordon Smith
• Brian Jungen
• Michael Stipe
• Spike Jonze
• Sofia Copola
• Tom Wolfe
• William S. Burroughs
• Angela Grossman
• William Gibson
• David Slade

Series contains magazines, newspapers, clippings and photocopies of articles about Coupland or his various projects. Clippings were either set aside by Coupland himself, or received from professional press clippings companies. Series includes clippings in various foreign languages including French, Italian Dutch and German.

Series consists of notes, notebooks/journals, press clippings, photographs, books and sketches that are not directly linked to a specific project. From about 1990 to 1994 Coupland kept made daily entries in notebooks. These notebooks contain Coupland’s thoughts, observations and concepts for future subject. This series also contains material related to an unwritten research project that Coupland began in 1992.

Series consists of visual art objects (collages, sculptures etc.), preparatory notes and sketches, photographs of visual art objects, and publicity related to Coupland’s art installations. Documents, photographs and objects related to the visual art projects spanning Coupland's career from 1983 to 2012.

Some of the projects covered in this series include:

Collages (1997 – 2009)
The Canada Pcictures (2000)
Canada House (2003)
Paper Nests (2004)
Canoe Landing Park (2009)
War of 1812 Monument (2008)
Digital Orca (2010)
Douglas Coupland's In Dialogue with Emily Carr (2010)
Group of Seven paintings series (2010)
Canadian Firefighters Memorial (2012)