Erin Malone is an artist, author, design historian, educator and a former user experience designer. She is a professor at California College of the Arts and Chair of the BFA Interaction Design program.
She is the author of the new book from MIT Press In Through the Side Door: Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design, which came out October 2024. She is co-author of both editions of the book Designing Social Interfaces from O'Reilly Media published in 2015 and 2009 and one of the essay authors in the book 97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know.
In her spare time she is a fine art photographer, printmaker, and letterpress printer. She turned to printmaking and book arts to create handmade books for her photography, but what started as a side effort to enhance the medium of photography, has taken over and she is primarily doing printmaking today.
Specifically, linoleum blockprints. Whimsical cats started it all, fueled by the pandemic, an effort to create smiles and something positive. Her work still includes cats - there's a new series of cats in bed - but her subjects have expanded to include birds, portraits of views of the Bernal Heights neighborhood and areas around San Francisco.
She works with several kinds of presses, including a Vandercook proofing letterpress, a Takach etching press, a blockprinting hand press and her hands. All works are created on archival paper unless noted.
She lives with a dog and 2 black cats who inspired the name of her printmaking studio - 8 Paw Press located in San Francisco, California.
She holds a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University School of Art and an MFA in Graphic Design from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Printmaker | Author | Professor
San Francisco, CA