Eric Carl

Hello! I’m Eric, an American multidisciplinary designer and artist currently based in Berlin. Over the past 20 years I’ve worked as a digital product designer, graphic designer, web designer, and illustrator. I aim to create work that’s thoughtful, culturally aware, and ultimately life-enhancing.

Since 2015, I’ve been a Principal Designer at Ableton, where I help lead the design of creative tools for music makers. My role spans design leadership for instruments and effects as well as hands-on interface design for features in Ableton Live.

From 2008 to 2015, I worked as Art Director at Gnomon, a leading visual effects school in Los Angeles. I was responsible for the organization’s design direction, overseeing the in-house design team and shaping its visual identity across digital and print.

In addition, I taught Gnomon’s Graphic Design and Career Realities courses, where I developed a design curriculum tailored to artists in the entertainment industry.

Outside of work, I maintain an active personal art and design practice that includes experimental media, music making, and lots of reading.

This website includes a selection of my personal and professional work, going back to 1998. It was built by hand because I believe it’s important to create our own independent spaces on the internet.

Recognition

Published in Torso: T-Shirt Graphics Exposed by Gestalten, Ello.com Motion Graphics Feature, Computer Arts Projects #66: Typography, Advanced Photoshop Magazine #52: Master Graphical Arts, Computer Arts Magazine: Creative Collages and Mixed Media Effects, Silver Addy Award 2006, Imation Computer Arts Scholarship 2001

Performances & Exhibitions

03.unrar.me
Motion Graphics Exhibition
Sameheads, Berlin
November 3, 2022

Hannu Karjalainen and Eric Carl
Audio/Visual Performance
Spektrum, Berlin
December 9, 2017

Traurig und Untanzbar
Audio/Visual Performance
Kantine am Berghain, Berlin
September 15, 2017

Colophon

This website is built with Eleventy and Sublime Text. It's hosted by Porkbun in the United States. The primary typeface is Atlas Grotesk from Commercial Type. Special thanks go to Jesse for her help with editing some of the words and the Merveilles and YayCorp communities for their perspectives and support.