Eric Shropshire - CEO and Creative Director
With more than 20 years experience in design, marketing, publishing, software development, training, documentation and technology systems for design and publishing, Eric Shropshire has worked continuously as a designer, art director and integrator of computer systems and software for the design and publishing industries.
As Product Manager for future technologies at Quark, Inc., Eric managed a team developing QuarkXPress and other applications. He was a senior technology consultant in the Book Group at R. R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago where he helped customers manage their design and production workflow and troubleshoot problems. For six years Eric was Director of Technology/Associate Art Director for the Publishing Group at Playboy Enterprises Inc. where he was responsible for designing non-fiction articles for Playboy magazine and for integrating desktop publishing, pre-press and multi-media technology for the design and production of Playboy publishing products. Eric was the leader of Playboy’s pioneering implementation of these new technologies, one of the first major magazines to make this leap.
A practicing graphic designer and technology systems designer and integrator, Eric is a respected member of both the design and publishing technology communities, speaking at major conferences and continually pursuing publishing technology solutions for artists, designers and publishers.