TONY DE MARCO
Tony de Marco is an artist who works across many mediums: illustration, typographic design, photography, and urban art. He has been designing digital fonts since 1989. He is the founder of Just in Type, active since 2004, and co-editor of Tupigrafia magazine. He won an award in 2003 at the Linotype International Type Design Contest for the Samba font, used by Nike on the Brazilian national team's jersey during the 2014 World Cup. His photographic essay São Paulo No Logo has been exhibited in London, Rotterdam, and Shanghai. Tony has been painting on the streets of São Paulo since 2005 under the name Pixotosco, combining art and programming in the works of the duo Contrast, and building bicycles from scrap metal in the Os+Chave collective.
2020
TRIBUTE TO TECHNOLOGY DAFT PUNK
Tribute to Technologic (2020) is a music video, a tribute to the song Technologic by the band Daft Punk. Sixty-four pictograms were illustrated and animated for the video.
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Luisa Venturelli
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ILLUSTRATION
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TONY
I was diagnosed with dyslexia at age twelve by psychologists. Old story: intelligent child who does very poorly in school. I almost failed several times, needing all sorts of resources and "dirty tricks" to finish high school. I managed to overcome many of the reading and writing difficulties, but even today my memory for any kind of number is zero, be it dates, passwords, values, etc.
Drawing was my escape valve as a child and a lifeline as an adult. I was a newspaper illustrator, art editor, music video director, and currently my main occupation is drawing alphabets and icons. I also write a weekly animated opinion column for the Meio newsletter. Dyslexia helps me perceive the connections between words, images, and concepts amidst the crazy mix of words, images, and concepts that come from inside my head.
