Elliott Peter Earls (born 1966) is an American graphic designer,
artist and one man band performance artist. He is an
artist-in-residence and head of the graduate graphic design department
at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.Earls attended St. Xavier, a Jesuit
all-boys high school, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he focused on
athletics. After high school, he attended and graduated from the
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 1988. Earls then attended
Cranbrook Academy of Art for graduate school; he completed his MFA
there in 1993.After graduating from RIT, Earls worked at de Harak and
Poulin Associates in New York. Next he worked with David Cundy in New
Canaan. In 1995, Earls created a CD of his design work called "The
Apollo Program", which was named after the NASA program. In the
mid-1990s, he developed three unusual typefaces: Dysphasia, Dysplasia
and Dyslexia. His next CD-ROM was entitled Eye Sling Shot Lions. He
worked for a few months as a graphic designer at Elektra Records. He
also worked for Nonesuch Records, Little Brown, Scribner and the
Cartoon Network. He has been called a "grunge graphic designer" for
his creation of "distorted...older typefaces" and "aggressively
illegible" type which adopted the "unkempt expressiveness" of the
"grunge [music] aesthetic"; Earls' radical, anti-establishment
approach was influenced by the Dada movement. One of his typefaces
which has been called "grunge"-styled is Dysphasia.After his "grunge"
period, he developed cleaner-lined fonts, such as "Venus Diode, Jig
Saw Dropshadow and Typhoid Mary". He has been an artist-in-residence
at Cranbrook Academy of Art; as of 2002, he was the second person to
hold this appointment. Earls became head of the graduate graphic
design program at Cranbrook in 2001. His work is in the Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Wolfsonian Museum, the Miami
Art Museum, the Triennale Museum in Milan; the Cranbrook Art Museum;
and in the University of Akron. During 2000 and 2001, Earls was an
artist in residence in Fabrica, Benetton’s design studio in Treviso,
Italy. Earls has been a teacher of "design, typography, and new media
at the State University of New York at Purchase".
artist and one man band performance artist. He is an
artist-in-residence and head of the graduate graphic design department
at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.Earls attended St. Xavier, a Jesuit
all-boys high school, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he focused on
athletics. After high school, he attended and graduated from the
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 1988. Earls then attended
Cranbrook Academy of Art for graduate school; he completed his MFA
there in 1993.After graduating from RIT, Earls worked at de Harak and
Poulin Associates in New York. Next he worked with David Cundy in New
Canaan. In 1995, Earls created a CD of his design work called "The
Apollo Program", which was named after the NASA program. In the
mid-1990s, he developed three unusual typefaces: Dysphasia, Dysplasia
and Dyslexia. His next CD-ROM was entitled Eye Sling Shot Lions. He
worked for a few months as a graphic designer at Elektra Records. He
also worked for Nonesuch Records, Little Brown, Scribner and the
Cartoon Network. He has been called a "grunge graphic designer" for
his creation of "distorted...older typefaces" and "aggressively
illegible" type which adopted the "unkempt expressiveness" of the
"grunge [music] aesthetic"; Earls' radical, anti-establishment
approach was influenced by the Dada movement. One of his typefaces
which has been called "grunge"-styled is Dysphasia.After his "grunge"
period, he developed cleaner-lined fonts, such as "Venus Diode, Jig
Saw Dropshadow and Typhoid Mary". He has been an artist-in-residence
at Cranbrook Academy of Art; as of 2002, he was the second person to
hold this appointment. Earls became head of the graduate graphic
design program at Cranbrook in 2001. His work is in the Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Wolfsonian Museum, the Miami
Art Museum, the Triennale Museum in Milan; the Cranbrook Art Museum;
and in the University of Akron. During 2000 and 2001, Earls was an
artist in residence in Fabrica, Benetton’s design studio in Treviso,
Italy. Earls has been a teacher of "design, typography, and new media
at the State University of New York at Purchase".
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