Doug Wittnebel
Architect / Illustrator / Artist / Academic
Doug Wittnebel is an architect, an illustrator and an artist based in California. He combines a unique viewpoint, a knowledge of cool aesthetics, a sense of humor, an undying interest in visual phenomena, a deep sense of history, combined with multiple layers of very sound practical experiences as a free hand drawer and designer.
He specializes in editorial and travel drawing advertising, and is open to illustration assignments, in-house work, visual development, storyboarding, visual note taking, architectural sketches and more. As a practicing architect working for firms like Gensler over in Asia, Doug was able to experience spaces and places in Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, China, India and Japan, and capture those scenes in numerous sketchbooks and digital tablets.
Doug is also known as “the Designer that can’t stop Drawing”. He employs drawing as the basis for so many creative acts. Doug is also known for teaching young students about the magic of immediate sketching and live drawing.
Doug is currently teaching a professional design course at UC Berkeley, California. The course focuses on the use of the iPad as a digital sketchbook for design communication.
“The more you draw, the more you can decipher the hidden depths of the creative process," Doug notes. "The process of group and individual sketching becomes the spark for igniting new possibilities.”
“Drawing, for me, sometimes is a bit like sneezing. It's something that I cannot really control, unpredictable, and I usually sneeze in sets of three”
Feel free to contact him for illustrations, design work, collaborations, questions, teaching, etc.