ericaldwinckle.info is the online component to a biographical project by Michael B. LeBlanc, Associate Professor at NSCAD University and Brian Donnelly, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

Michael LeBlanc has collected material from the National Archives, Ottawa, the Toronto Arts and Letters Club, Eric's family and friends and other interested members of Canada's design community. The biographical portion of a book, “Nothing Uninteresting,” by LeBlanc is in first draft with the NSCAD Press.

About Michael LeBlanc

Michael LeBlanc (BA Guelph, MFA York) is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Design at NSCAD University. During the 1980’s he was a regularly exhibiting artist and his mixed media drawings can be found in private and public collections in Canada, the USA and Europe. Before coming to NSCAD in 1990, he taught drawing and interactive media at the University of Guelph, University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. From 1998 to 2001, he worked fulltime as Creative Director for ITC Learning Inc., Director of Media Design for Knowledge House Inc., and Senior Designer for PhotoPoint.com, a Media Metrix Top 200 website. He returned to NSCAD fulltime in 2001. He is also Creative Director for Origin BioMed Inc. of Halifax. In 2008 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at Huanghuai University, Henan, China.

About Brian Donnelly

Brian Donnelly grew up in suburban Ottawa, a fan of American advertising and comic books. He studied for his BFA at Queen’s University during the conceptual upheaval of the mid-70s, majoring in printmaking and performance art. Active in a number of artist-run centres, he developed a working knowledge of design by volunteering at an arts magazine in Edmonton, and went on to spend the next fifteen years as a graphic designer and art director. Eventually, words began hold more interest than images and he obtained his MA, in 1997, in Canadian Art History at Carleton University, on the neglected topic of graphic design history in Canada since 1945. He is working with the NSCAD University Press to publish a book on this history. Brian has been lecturing on and researching design history for the past ten years. His PhD is in art history, from Queen’s University, on aspects of the semiotics and economics of graphic design. He has lectured at Queen’s and the Ontario College of Art and Design, and is now a professor in the York University/Sheridan Institute Bachelor of Design program. Other research interests lie in such areas as graphic narrative, Marxist theories of aesthetic and economic value, and critical readings of postmodern and poststructuralist theory.