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 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