Erik Hagerman is a designer and artist.

As a designer, he's created user experiences for emerging media (internet, Mac/PC) that have been used by more than 50 million people and generated more than $1 billion in sales. He’s designed applications and interfaces that have allowed people to buy products, share photos, design jewelry, rent DVDs, order prescriptions, learn about their health, search the internet and play with animated lions (The Lion King), tigers (Aladdin) and Demi Moore (voice-over actress for Esmeralda in Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”). He has worked for and added enormous amounts of value to companies ranging from the very small (PlanetRx, Cuil) to the very large (Walt Disney, Wal-Mart).

As an artist, he builds sculpture and assemblage from reclaimed materials and found objects. His studio, located on the top floor of a 19th century warehouse on the waterfront in Brooklyn, NY, is home to some of the world’s largest collections of some of the world’s least appreciated materials, including 5 tons of salvaged lumber, 3 tons of art books, 60,000 used wooden toy building blocks, hundreds of casting molds from retired foundries and a growing population of orphaned action figures. The studio also contains some truly amazing views of New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty and the southern tip of Manhattan.

Erik Hagerman was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Athens, Ohio. He holds a BA in History from Dartmouth College, where he was valedictorian of his graduating class. He also holds a Masters degree from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics as a Marshall Scholar. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.