I’m Dominique Fougère, a multi-disciplinary creative person, who has been making visual things for people and for myself for a very long time. I strive to maintain a balanced creative output in the digital and analog realms. I take deep pride in delivering projects with ethical, kind, and pragmatic implementation of human-centered design practices.
For design work, I’ve worked for the last 14 years in both agency and start-up environments on 80+ projects for over 40 clients that span industries such as healthcare, finance, marketing, and gaming. Recently, I worked at Attentive, where I co-managed the design system and reporting products with a stellar cross-functional team.
For analog work, art is integral to myself. I graduated cum laude from Cal Poly Humboldt, with a B.A., Studio Arts in 2008. I’ve happily created many graphic designs over the years- coloring books, zines, packaging specs, custom illustrations, branding + identity kits, presentation decks, tattoo line-work, etc.- but my ride-or-die artistic loves are collage and ceramics.
Currently, I’m investigating the ethics, practicalities, and other unknowns about this new, emerging era of generative technology within digital design and pursuing a graduate degree in Psychology, emphasis in Art Therapy.
Art appearances
✹ Jul 2026: “GREEN” juried group show at ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
✹ Jun 2026: “Material Matters” juried group show, 2nd Place award, at Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA.
✹ Jun 2026: “Queer Collage Group Show” at Slough City Studios, Petaluma, CA.
✹ May 2026: “A Place I’ve Never Known” juried group show at Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA.
✹ Aug 2025: Sonoma County Fair, Best in Show and 1st Place in Ceramics for ‘UFO Bowl’, Santa Rosa, CA.
✹ Jun 2025: “Bits & Pieces” assemblage and collage group show at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA.
✹ Jun 2025: “Queer Collage Group Show” at Slough City Studios, Petaluma, CA.
✹ Sep 2024: “World of Ceramics” group show at Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA.
✹ Jul 2024: Marin County Fair, “Tomales CA, USA” digital drawing, San Rafael, CA.
✹ Jul 2011: Marin County Fair, 2nd Place in Drawing for “The Eye,” San Rafael, CA.
✹ Nov 2008: “Small Works Exhibit” at ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA.
Work experience
✹ Dec 2025 – present: Owner, Dominique Fougere Studio
✹ Sep 2021 – Dec 2025 (~4 years): Principal Product Designer, Attentive
✹ Aug 2016 – Aug 2021 (5 years): Visual Designer, Definery
✹ Feb 2011 – July 2016 (~5 years): Visual Designer, Spring Studio 🪦
✹ Jun 2008 – Dec 2010 (~2 years): Owner, DLF Graphics 🪦
I process the exterior and interior worlds through creative making.
I employ highly tactile mediums such as ceramics, collage, and pen-and-ink drawings to visualize emotional landscapes and states of being.
To me, surrealism supersedes realism in its ability to access what feels more truthful and real to me- what is unspoken and what is unseen.
I take inspiration from human anatomy, dream states, minimalist aesthetics, and the intangible, fragmented nature of memory.
With restraint in terms of color, elements, and composition, I focus on high contrast scenes that have a tension between what is in focus and what is blurred.
Curiosity and comfort with mystery are the only things I ask of viewers to my work.