UT Design Lecture Series  Elliot Earls

Elliott Earls was appointed Designer-in Residence and Head of the 2-D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in July 2001. Earls's experimentation with nonlinear digital video, spoken word poetry, music composition and design led him to form the Apollo Program with clients including Elektra Entertainment, Nonesuch Records, Elemond Casabella (Itlay), The Cartoon Network (U.K.), Imaginary Forces, Polygram Classics and Jazz, and Janus Films.

As a typographer, his original type design is distributed worldwide by Emigre Inc. and are part of the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Earls spent September 2000-May 2001 as a designer-in-residence at Fabrica, Benetton's studio/research center in Treviso, Italy. He has taught typography, design and multimedia at the State University of New York at Purchase. His serial examination of "spiritual gangsters" has been published by Emigre. Earls also has spent time at numerous American universities, and he has given workshops on design, culture and new media in Europe and America. In 2001 Earls was a finalist for the Chrysler National Design Award in New Media.

As a performance artist, Earls was awarded an Emerging Artist grant by Manhattan's prestigous Wooster Group. He was a features performer at the Wooster Group's Performing Garage from July 5-12, 1999. Elliott has performed at the Cretiel Theatre Festival in France, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minesota; The Oak Street Theatre in Portland, Maine; at Experimenta 99, Lisbon, Portugal; Opera Totale in Metrre/Venice; Typo 2000 in Berlin; and Living Surfaces in Park City Utah.

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