Erin Malone

Artist Bio

Erin Malone is an artist, author, design historian, educator, and a former user experience designer. She is a professor and Chair of the BFA Interaction Design program at California College of the Arts. She is the author of the book In Through the Side Door: Fifty Years of Women in Interactive Design, which came out in October 2024 from MIT Press.

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 block prints. Whimsical cats started it all, fueled by the pandemic, an effort to create smiles and something positive. Her work still includes cats - there’d a new series of cats in bed - but her subjects have expanded to include birds , portraits of views of Bernal Heights and other areas around San Francisco.

She works with several kinds of presses, including a Vandercook proofing letterpress, a Takac etching press, a block printing hand press and her hands. 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.