Elliott Earls 2014 Typo SF Talk
Elliott Earls 2013 Artist-in-Residence Lecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art on Vimeo.
In this 22 minute long video, Designer-in-Residence Elliott Earls discusses three potential research models for aesthetic production.
Elegant Dissent: Elliott Earls talk at the ICA Boston from Elliott Earls on Vimeo.
Elliott Earls presents his perspective on establishment and anarchy. How does one visualize dissent? It can take the form of a sophisticated challenge to dominant ideologies—political, religious, or cultural—or the opposite: an anti-establishment counterculture with no message. How are people responding to or acting on these images? Are designers defined by a “design canon” which determines the way they operate? Should they look beyond traditional sources of inspiration or court contradiction and chaos to produce relevant, resonant, and prescient design?
Recent Related Work
Elegy for the Collapse of the Empire at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan
In early June 2011, I was asked to participate in an exhibition entitled Graphic Design Worlds at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. On January 19th, 2011 I traveled with Cranbrook graduate students Nicole Killian and Wesley Taylor to Milan for the installation and the subsequent opening. In December 2008, I produced a piece entitled “Thoughts on Democracy” for the […]
Mad King Screen Print from the Archive
I recently purchased a massive Synology server in order to harvest and centralize 15 years of work archived to CD-ROM. This two color screen print was produce to promote one of my many performances at “Here” in Soho. This is a rough and ready screen print on newsprint from when my studio was located on Greenwich […]
Songs from Catfish Re-Released
In 2001 Emigre released Catfish a film by Elliott Earls. Catfish is a 55 minute film on DVD that documents Elliott Earls performance work. Over the course of the next fifteen days, one song from the Catfish soundtrack will be posted each day. For a limited time, the songs will be available for free download. The songs are […]