about_doane

Doane's commercial art work has focused on retail tile and stone design projects for local Monterey area homeowners, designers, architects, contractors, and tile suppliers. This work has provided Doane a unique opportunity to most effectively combine his earlier years of architectural design and graphics fine arts work in one highly focused and creative tile and design practice. Doane and his wife, Sara, reside in Carmel California with their two dogs, "the girls."

Doane is now concentrating on his fine arts creations. This includes new paintings done outside, "en plein aire" working in this beautiful coastal area that has inspired him so much over the years and new drawings and other media he is experimenting with.

Take a look at his fine arts website for more information and examples.

Architectural Design Work

R. Doane Hoag is founder and principal of Doane Design, a Monterey Bay area tile and stone installation design consulting firm and Architectural presentation illustrations. With over twenty years experience as an independent home builder, designer, and architectural illustrator, Doane is able to provide homeowners, architects and tile contractors alike fresh and highly innovative solutions for their kitchen, bathroom and other home area tile and stone design challenges or illustration and rendering requirements.

Speculative residential building projects in Texas and numerous custom remodeling projects in California, Oregon, and Texas were preceded by architectural design training at California State University, Northridge, and Santa Monica City College, California. An associate with an Architectural design/graphics firm in Los Angeles honed his skills with perspective renderings and presentation techniques after graduating from college. Later employment with Xerox Corporation Data Services provided Doane additional skills in computer graphics and AutoCAD design methods. Working for many years at Carmel Stone Imports in Carmel honed his interior design abilities focused on tile installation layouts and hand drawn renderings of these installs.