Elliott Earls is currently in residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Cranbrook is located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Bloomfield Hills is part of the larger Detroit community.
In October of 2015 I was asked by former Cranbrook Art Museum Director Gregory Wittkopp to design a catalog for the museums collection of Pewabic Pottery. The two images below were from the initial design presentation. In both covers I reinterpret William Morris wall paper samples from the Cranbrook Collection in an attempt to show just […]
In 2011 I was asked by then Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Reed Kroloff, to redesign the identity system for the Academy. After extensive research on the history of logos at the Academy, I began a two year long design process that produced the logo shown above and the identity system below. The typeface […]
The first exhibition in the newly renovated and expanded Cranbrook Art Museum explores Cranbrook’s continued influence in the world of contemporary art and design. No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection Opened November 11, 2011. The images above are from my installation for the exhibition. The exhibition paired the work of 50 leading […]
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 […]