Eric Heiman

Starting in the hunter-filled woods of rural Pennsylvania, Eric Heiman embarked on a labyrinthine journey through the Carnegie Mellon architecture program, late nights spinning records, music store employment, and vows of silence in the Maui mountains that eventually led him to the Bay Area design world.

At the dawn of the new millennium Eric founded Volume with Adam Brodsley in 2002. Volume has designed environments, books, films, print collateral, and web-based media for clients such as The California Academy of Sciences, ReadyMade magazine, Sony Computer Entertainment, McSweeney's, Rizzoli, Adobe Systems, Metropolis magazine, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Chow magazine, Chronicle Books, University of California Press, Southern Exposure, Heath Ceramics, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), The American Institute of Architects, Young Audiences of Northern California, Seagate, Melcher Media, Deloitte, the Bridge Fund, and Microsoft.

Volume's work has been exhibited, honored by, or published in the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Eye, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Communication Arts, Graphis, I.D., Step Inside Design, Print, How, Exhibitor, Coupe, Étapes, the Type Directors Club, AIGA, the Western Art Director's Club, the German Design Council, and the 2003, 2005, and 2007 California Design Biennials at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.

Eric's writing on design has been published in Emigre, Letterspace, and the AIGA's online journal, Voice, and he has given numerous lectures around the country on design and design education. Eric has taught at CCA since 1999 and was awarded the college-wide Excellence in Teaching Award by the graduating class of 2003.

He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from CCA and a BArch from Carnegie Mellon, each awarded with high honors.