The Renaissance Man: Anthony Neil Dart

Every now and then you find a brilliant designer that does a lot more than just design. Such is the case with Anthony Neil Dart, a designer from South Africa who also has credits in music production and film.

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Descriptions like “Renaissance Man” come to mind when you find those like Anthony that seem to effortlessly master various areas that take the rest of us a lifetime to grasp. But as is also often the case, it took Anthony a lot of hard work and education to get to where he is today.

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Anthony Neil Dart hails from Johannesburg, South Africa where he runs his own design studio. He has an interesting and legitimate claim to being both self-taught and educated in the arts.

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Anthony’s formal training was in traditional arts that involve hand-made designs, so Anthony had to learn computer-aided design on his own to survive in a commercial setting.

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Anthony flourished once he was able to start producing in programs like Adobe Illustrator and has since carved out a career of creating unique commissioned works.

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His designs are simple, but very clear and accessible. Typographical elements and symbols are ever present in his designs.

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Find out more about Anthony and his work on http://www.anthonyneildart.tv/

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Open Source of Imagination: SWARTE

SWARTE is an open source of imagination transforming modern mental images into catchy art that can be perceived only when involving all five senses at once.

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They are generating feelings and connect you with a large amount of ideas and visions which are supposed to help you define your dreams and fulfill them in a colorful, provocative and intriguing manner.

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As they are creating stories about the day of tomorrow you can indulge yourself to recognize your own core in one of them and hang it on your wall as an eclectic prolongation of your inner thoughts.

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Behind SWARTE there are Corina Olaru (Art Director) and Manuela Vulpescu (Project Management).

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They survived more than 40 years of communism and finally became an integrated part of the modern world, comically smiling and childishly believing that zhey will forever and ever happily enjoy spending their lives between credit cards, global corporations, shoes and accessories, expensive cars and amazing roads.

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http://www.sw-arte.com/

The Typographic Excellence of Sean Freeman

A love for words and beautiful images led Sean to explore a harmony of both, spreading his wings to open up his own studio: There is, specialising in creative typography, illustration and art direction.

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Based in East London, Sean creates award winning typographic treatments and illustrations for a varied range of clients globally from advertising to music, editorial and publishing; with his work being featured in numerous books and magazines. His work is known to be as powerful as it is unique: a dynamic and organic fusion between elements.

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Forever curious, Sean is constantly exploring new ways of approaching his work with a love for happy accidents and a passion for visual storytelling, texture, type and everything in between.

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http://www.thereis.co.uk/

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