<p> Erik Whittaker was brought up in Berkeley California in the 60&#39;s and 70&#39;s, where he developed a taste for content in art. With a BA in Art History from UBC, he completed his MA in Design as valedictorian at UC Berkeley with grandiose schemes to re-purpose the 200 ft. smoke stack of San Francisco&#39;s old Hamm&#39;s Brewery building into a periscopic camera obscura and the soon-to-be-defunct East Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge into a park with mixed housing and business between the upper and lower decks. Erik works out of his Gastown Studio in Vancouver Canada where he is engaged in various creative pursuits in film, sculpture, design and architecture.</p>