Erich Nagler is an artist and designer based in Berkeley, California. He is currently the lead art director for Google Doodles. He was previously at Medium, where he was the founding art director of Matter magazine. Before Medium, Erich was an art director at the New York Times, and at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, and a designer at Pentagram. Erich has won numerous awards for his editorial design work, including one gold medal and two silver medals from the Society of Publication Designers, and a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators.