Artist Profile: Ed Eyth Designs

('Spamela' Anderson, hahaha!)

BIO:
Edward Eyth

In the 25 years of his artistic career Edward Eyth has provided creative input on everything from toys to automobiles, baby products to fashion accessories, toilets to theme parks, retail environments and museum installations. Eyth was educated at the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles where he received a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction.

His experience in the entertainment industry includes production design, set and costume design, character design, puppet design, illustration, environmental and theme park design, licensed product, graphics and musical composition.

For five years Eyth taught advanced visual communications at the Art Center College, and he instructed a course in toy design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He has lectured at various colleges and educational institutions including UCLA, Parson’s School of Design – New York, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh; for the Society of Illustrators, and the Puppetry Guild of Los Angeles.

He recently returned to Los Angeles after 6 years in New York where he began his current position as Director of Creative Services for the Jim Henson Company.

His lifelong fascination with figure drawing, and more recently sculpture; augment an exuberant and diverse body of artistic work.

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(picked from The Cartoonist)