ERIK A. EVENSEN is an award-winning designer, illustrator, graphic novelist, lecturer, and teacher.
Erik is currently the consulting Art Director with New York based Milkhouse Productions and teaches with the Art Institute of Pittsburgh's Online Division. He was previously the Sr. Graphic Designer for Vital Design in Portsmouth, NH, as well as Adjunct Faculty for the Maine Community College System. A New Hampshire native, he now lives in Minnesota with his wife, musician Erika Svanoe.
Erik holds an MFA in Design from The Ohio State University, where he also taught the Design Drawing sequence to undergraduate students in Industrial, Interior, and Visual Communication Design. He also studied Fine Art at the University of New Hampshire (BA) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (PBCert).
As a scholar, his research is focused on information design, user-centered and generative design research,
the design of educational materials, and graphic novels
in culture and education. He has presented this research
at conferences in Seoul, Hong Kong, and across the US.
Erik trained as a researcher with design research pioneer
Liz Sanders, president and founder of MakeTools.
As a designer and illustrator, Erik has collaborated with
many notable
creative teams, including the Albion Group
(Needham, MA), Brown & Company (Portsmouth, NH),
the Boston Group (Boston, MA), Impact Studios (Kitchener,
ON), Milkhouse Productions (New York, NY), Third
Generation
Design (Durham, NH), Vital Design (Portsmouth, NH),
and
the Weightman Group (Sacramento, CA).
As a fine artist, his work has appeared at the Rhys Gallery
in Boston, MA, the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, IOS
Business Center in Portsmouth, NH, and the University
of New Hampshire Museum.