Erik Carter is a graphic designer and art director based in Oakland, California. Carter has worked as an art director at Google, a senior designer at MTV, an art director for the New York Times, and a designer at the Office of Paul Sahre.
Do You Want Typography or Do You Want The Truth?
Oakland-based graphic designer Erik Carter addresses a number of issues increasingly coming to light within the profession of graphic design, from the profession’s lack of examination of its societal implications, to the profession’s obsession with personality and itself, to its lack of inclusion throughout its history and in the current discipline. Carter examines and outlines these issues as a way of trying to map a better future for our field.