All images appearing below by E r i c D i n y e r © 2009
Eric Dinyer is an author, illustrator and photographer who has worked in the entertainment, music, and publishing industries in many ways.
His experience includes projects with Time-Warner Books, Columbia Records, !K7 Records, TVT Records, RCA Victor Records, Warner Latina, Warner Brothers, St. Martin's Press, Doubleday, and Scholastic, as well as in publications such as Harper's, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and The New York Times Book Review.
Dinyer's work has been profiled in international design publications as diverse as the Seoul, South Korea-published Design Net Magazine to the Sao Paulo, Brazil publication, Grafica to Hong Kong based IdN no.28 Magazine to Communications Arts Magazine, and all the way back to LA based indie zine inceptions such as Outburn.
His imagery has been used in feature films such as, Shaft, Spiderman, and Freaky Friday. Showtime Networks based a thirty-second television spot on eight of Eric's images for their Sci-Fridays series.
Dinyer has created CD & DVD cover images for
Bruce Springsteen , Sting , Static X , Julio Iglesias Jr. , Zakk Wylde , and many others. He has also developed packaging images for indie artists such as !K7's Princess Superstar , and TVT Record's, Chainsuck. Dinyer contributed images to the seminal Black Box: Wax Trax! Records, The First 13 Years 3 CD Set. , and Afterburn: Wax Trax-94 & Beyond. Most recently Dinyer contributed images to the M-Field, Current of Life CD package on PsyBooty Records.
A dedicated Yoga practitioner, Eric has illustrated two Yoga books to help disseminate the spiritual and health benefits of this ancient healing practice, Effort and Surrender: The Art and Wisdom of Yoga. , and The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga.
Dinyer holds a B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY.
He is co-founder and owner of Dreamless Studios.
Dinyer is a member of The Society of Illustrators, NYC.
Eric's prints and three-dimensional sculptures are available for purchase through Leopold Gallery.
Dinyer will have work in the forthcoming book, Icons and Images: 50 years of Extraordinary Illustration, published by Harper Design Intl and the Society of Illustrators, NYC.
Recently completed assemblage by Eric Dinyer © 2008 available for viewing and purchase at Leopold Gallery.
Recently completed sculpture by Eric Dinyer © 2008 available for viewing and purchase at Leopold Gallery.
Recently completed sculpture by Eric Dinyer © 2008 available for viewing and purchase at Leopold Gallery.
Recently completed sculpture by Eric Dinyer © 2008 available for viewing and purchase at Leopold Gallery.
Recently completed sculpture by Eric Dinyer © 2008 available for viewing and purchase at Leopold Gallery.
A double page spread from Graphis Magazine featuring some of my work.
I created the above Voodoo Dreams jacket image a long while ago. I was using one of the first versions of Photoshop, which at the time, did not include floating layers, which meant, that once you pasted an element, it was stuck permanently, and you could not nudge or move anything. Really big pain. Therefore, you had to keep multiple iterations of the image, and re-build everything from scratch.
The other thing I remember about this jacket, was the model, who worked in the painting department at an art school where I taught. I cut the image of her face in half, and flopped it, to make it symmetrical. As you probably know, no human face is perfectly symmetrical, the reason I chose to do this, was, the main character in the book is a voodoo queen, and I thought it would add a very subtle feeling of strangeness to the jacket.
Click here to read more about Voodoo Dreams on amazon.com
The page above is from a publication in Seoul, South Korea. They were cool enough
to feature
a selection of my work over a five page spread.
Image by Eric Dinyer :: from My Machine CD: by Princess Superstar :: !k7 Records
Image by Eric Dinyer :: from Current of Life CD: by M-Field :: PsyBooty Records
Package Art by Eric Dinyer for Wax Trax Records.
Package Art by Eric Dinyer for Wax Trax Records.
This is one of five covers I created for Portuguese novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes and Grove Press.
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Book Jacket Art by © 2008 Eric Dinyer for Crown Publishers, Inc. New York.
From the archives: Cover art I created for Bruce Springsteen's Grammy winning "Ghost of Tom Joad." Bruce was cool enough to take time to sign it for me.
This is an image I created for US News & World Report. According to the article, 64% of people believe in Hell. Unfortunately, I am not one of them, however, if I did believe in Hell, I would rename it, "Earth." ;-)
Painting by Eric Dinyer © 2008. A Giclee print of this painting will be auctioned at a benefit titled, "Behind the Mask." The proceeds will benefit the Mattie Rhodes Center and help raise awareness and support of its mental health, social services, and arts programming. The auction takes place Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at the Cadillac Room in Kansas City, in the Crossroads.
An image of my long time yoga friend Gretchen who posed for my book, Effort and Surrender.
Click on the image above to buy Eric's Yoga books, products he has illustrated, and novelty gift items he has designed.
Cover of my Yoga Book, Effort and Surrender
