Eric Baker
You Can't Get There From Here
Eric Baker is a Designer, Author and Educator. A two time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant for his independent design history projects, his work has appeared in Print, Communication Arts, How, Domus, Metropolis, Blueprint, ID Magazine, The New York Art Directors Annual, British Design and Art Direction, The New York Times, Vanity Fair and Graphis.
In 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The Academy of Art University in San Francisco for his contributions to design history and education. Clients Include: Blue Note Records, Rosanne Cash, Celedon Books, Chronicle Books, Francis Ford Coppola, Gordon Parks, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, Ricky Jay, Rory Kennedy, David Lynch, The Mark Twain House, Danny Meyer, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Times, Saturday Night Live, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Union Square Cafe, Union Square Hospitality Group.
With You Can’t Get There From Here each piece is an exercise in looking for hidden relationships and compositions that have a sense of harmony, the unknown, and unexpected. How does one relate to the other and what new meaning do they present?
