| Erin
Wright earned his Master of Fine Arts with a concentration
in Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of
Arizona and his BFA in Graphic Design at Colorado State
University. He has over 20 years of experience as a designer and teacher winning several local, regional, and national awards for design. Wright’s work has been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators Museum in New York first as a student and then as an educator. Under the nom de guerre Asylum his work has appeared in nationally and internationally competitive design annuals and compendiums such as PRINT Regional Annual, Creativity 35, New Logo World (published in Tokyo), and American Corporate Identity (2004, 2005 and 2006). One of his logos was selected to be published in Kodansha Famous Schools Creative Art Course textbook published in Japan as an “example of excellent logo concept and execution.”
Erin has also designed posters shown in competitions and exhibitions around the world including: Warsaw, Poland; Brno, the Czech Republic; Kyunggido, South Korea; the Mark X International Poster Invitational in the Republic of China; the Golden Bee 7 in Moscow, Russia; and the 56th Annual Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington Show in Washington, D.C.. He was asked by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad to submit 5 posters to the “Sailing in Qingdao Poster Annual” as part of the celebrations leading up to the 2008 Olympic Games. He also participated in the 15th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) the premier poster exhibition in the United States. His posters are in several collections including the Robert Irwin archive at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and The International Poster Collection at Colorado State University.
Erin has also won several Gold and Silver ADDY Awards. In the past two years, Erin has been awarded 4 Gold and 2 Silver awards as well as Designer of the Year and Illustrator of the Year at the Birmingham (Alabama) ADDY Awards and I Gold and 3 Silvers at the 7th District Regional ADDY Awards.
He is a recipient of a Fellowship Grant, the most prestigious of grants awarded annually by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. |
