Notes from Coupland’s 1992 research trip to Washington DC
- RBSC-ARC-1643-51-13
- File
- ca. 1993
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Notes from Coupland’s 1992 research trip to Washington DC
Miscellaneous design magazines
Birnbaum’s Ireland, by Stephen and Alexandra Birnbaum
Birds of Ireland, by Gordon D’arcy
VHS tape of Target store commercial?
Two Irish flags [one with hand tracings on it]
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.
Gesture beaver tee – Miami pink
Signature sweatpant – salt & pepper
Leather bracelets – white, red, black
Leather bracelets and belts – various colours (prototypes)
Red and black plaid wool fabric sample
Crest boyfriend shirt – denim (strikeoff)
Roots clothing line leather bracelet and tags
File contains one leather snap bracelet with "roots.com/douglascoupland" written in silver, and two "Coupland Canada" clothing tags.
Letter regrding Roots contract
Ephemera including scrap paper with numbers and canoe paddle picture clipping
Post-its with notes and drawings
Scribbled notes on paper regarding Roots designs
Fabric samples for tunic dress and Kanga hoody
David Weir's comp tickets to the 2010 Massey Lectures
Contains two tickets to the 2010 Massey Lecture at Convocation Hall (University of Toronto), October 29, 2010, at which Coupland was reading Player One.
Coupland and McCarthy event invitation in Toronto
Contains a print-out of an event invitation hosted by Knopf Canada: "A conversation between Tom McCarthy and Doug Coupland about books, art and the meaning of it all", held October 30th, 2010 at the Rooster Cafe in Toronto.
Letter and thank you card from Wordfest 2009
VHS tapes of interviews on CNN, Newsworld, Bravo, Knowledge Network
VHS cassette tapes SPTV-001 - SPVT-006
Bill Good interview with Coupland
Contains a commercial cassette tape (orginally containing The Buck Owens Show - Big in Vegas), overdubbed to contain an interview with Coupland.
Written over top of the original tape label in black marker:
"Aug 29/95 CKNW Dougie - Bill Good"
St. Etienne record with Coupland liner notes
Canadian book tour for Eleanor Rigby
Draft of All this Pavement, a short story written January 1988
Correspondence and publicity related to Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians series
Douglas Coupland’s future biography of Marshall Mcluhan is part of this series.
Girlfriend in a Coma cover mockup