Pitcher Awards
Eric
Mwangi
Creative Director, 3Verse, Nairobi Kenya
Craft Jury Member
About
Eric
Eric is a multidisciplinary creative thinker with over 18 years’ experience as a creative director, graphic designer and visual artist. He has worked extensively in advertising, retail and publishing, serving in various creative leadership capacities for accounts such as Safaricom, Equity Bank, Sketchers, Clarks, AGRA, Terre des Hommes - Netherlands, Wilo - Germany, Johnson’s & Johnson’s, Danone, PZ Cussons, Samsung, KFC, Visa, Kenya Railways, Revlon, Mastercard and LEGO among many others. Eric is currently the Creative Director at 3Verse based in Nairobi, Kenya.
As an established visual artist, Eric has curated, organized and participated in several group and solo exhibitions in Nairobi. Some of his paintings are in corporate collections such as KCB Bank as well as private collections in Kenya, Uganda, USA, Netherlands, South Africa and Canada. In August 2020, Eric founded the Bez Art Collective, a community of African artists with an aim of disrupting the traditional ways of marketing art. Through digital channels and pop up art exhibitions, the collective has created new revenue streams for its members and opened up previously untouched markets in Europe and Asia. The collective comprises of painters, sculptors, digital artist, film makers, photographers, writers, designers and animators.