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BIO 

Eric Hanson has been an illustrator and writer for more than thirty years. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Vanity Fair, Spy, the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times, The Nation, Travel+Leisure, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Die Zeit Magazine, Poetry, Gastronomica, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Time, the Believer and other publications. His art has appeared regularly in academic publications from Harvard, Northwestern, Brown, Johns Hopkins, UCBerkeley, Cornell, MIT, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Macalester, University of Minnesota, and others. His work has been recognized in juried annuals from Communication Arts, Society of Publication Designers, Print, I.D., A.I.G.A., and American Illustration. Design clients include, Aesthetic Apparatus, Duffy, Collins, Robert Valentine, Fallon, Pentagram, AR-NewYork, Stoltze Design, PhD-LA, AirConditionedLA, Raffinerie, Mirko Borsche, Paul Davis, Louise Fili, Kate Spade, WarbyParker, Ronn Campisi, Tolleson, Little&Co, Landor and many others in North America, Europe and Japan. He has designed product lines for Willams Sonoma and Target and illustrated book covers and endpapers for Alfred A. Knopf, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Ecco, Faber&Faber, New York Review Books, Chronicle, Random House, Bloomsbury and Pantheon. He has been guest lecturer and featured speaker at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and CVA. He’s served as an MFA advisor and an adjunct professor of illustration/professional practice at MCAD. In 2014 he was an artist-in-residence at MIA’s art library. He wrote a chapter for the MIA’s centenary book and illustrated the cover.

Eric Hanson’s fiction and essays have been published by McSweeney’s, the Paris Review, the Mockingbird, the New York Tyrant, Torpedo (Australia), and The Lifted Brow (Australia). His general essays (written on various topics but dealing chiefly with matters of place and time and life’s arcs and intersections) have appeared in the Atlantic, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Flavorwire, The Week, The Rumpus, Minnesota Monthly, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Ampersand, Hemispheres and elsewhere. He is the author of A Book of Ages, An Eccentric Miscellany of Great & Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous & Infamous, Ages 1 to 100 , which was published by Random House in 2008.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY & MENTORSHIP

Experience is the best teacher. It gives perspective on life as it unfolds, what works, what might work, how to deal with design and illustration problems, how to find and keep clients, etc. I have encountered many of the issues a young artist will need to deal with.