[citation needed] While a student, Adigard's first designs earned him national awards for their experimental mix of iconography and offset printing techniques.
Since creating his first digital images for Macworld magazine in 1989 he has been exploring the limits of the graphic design discipline as it continues to be redefined by shifting relationships with technology and social phenomena.
[5] This concept, by Erik Adigard and artist Chris Salter was directed by former San Francisco Museum of Modern Art design and architecture curator Aaron Betsky.
[7] Since 2011 Adigard has been teaching in the undergraduate and MFA design program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Paris, France.
[8] Among many exhibits, his main commissions include Catalysts!, Engage for ExperimentaDesign2005, Bienal de Lisboa[9] and AirXY: From Immaterial to Rematerial for the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008.