Anthony M. La Pusata - Designer, Writer, Lyricist & Photographer

Anthony M. La Pusata

I am a third party plug-in, ready to include in your project. I am for hire either as a freelance designer, art director, copywriter and photographer and I would be equally happy to be hired full time by a valid design agency, media development bureau or television & film company ideally based in the UK, Ireland or Canada.

Portfolio > Curriculum

Exhibitions:

2001

I was invited to present an interactive piece of Web Art for the first ever Bienal de Valencia, Spain. My work, ‘Hello Head’ was on show as part of the ‘El Mundo Nuevo’ section. The show was then taken on to an exhibition in Rome, Italy later that year.

2002

I was asked to present an interactive artwork created in Macromedia Flash for the San Francisco Edition of the Flash Forward Conference. I developed ‘Karmadrome’, which was also taken to the New York edition of Flash Forward later that year.

2002

Again, after the success of the works exhibited at the Flash Forward Exhibitions, I was asked to join some of the big design names such as Joshua Davis, Matt Owen, Niko Stumpo by exhibition organiser, Achille Bonito Oliva, to take part in this years Biennale di Scultura in Carrara, Italy where the theme was Net Chisel. I presented ‘Channel 9’.

2002

In December, the Digital Clip Association in Turin, Italy asked me to present a couple of my works for a digital media exhibition held at the GAM, ‘Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea’, one of Italy’s most prestigious Contemporary Art Galleries. I submitted the works, ‘Hello Head’ and ‘Channel 9’ and they were kept on show for a whole year.

2003

I participated in Farm’s ‘Religion’ exhibition held in the south of Italy. Some of the most well known contemporary art journalists, reviewers and critics were invited to the event and my ‘Trinity Bank’ piece received critical acclaim from numerous printed and electronic magazines such FlashArt and Exibart.

Occupation:

graphic & media designer

Contact:

via Marchese di San Giuliano, 25

94012 Barrafranca (EN) Italy

Tel. +39 (0) 934 467429

email: republika04@tiscali.it

Languages:

English (native language)

Italian (fluent)

French (medium skill)

Education:

1990 - 1993 Walsall College of Art (UK)

BTEC 1st Diploma in General Art & Design

BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design

Experience:

1993 - 1994

Ward Lambert Advertising - Birmingham (UK)

Creative Director for a local Magazine.

1994 - 1995

DWA - Torino (Italy)

Here I worked as part of the creative team on corporate projects for the following brands: Invicta, EuroTravel, Klèber, Cressi Sub and Mazda.

1995 - Present

Republika DMPB - Barrafranca (Italy)

My current position with this company is as freelance Art Director where I am head of a group of designers, liaising with a broad range of european clients and developing design solutions and concepts for various print and media briefs.

1998 – 1999

Paruzzo & Vaccaro s.r.l. – Caltanissetta (Italy)

I worked as a freelance graphic designer for this industrial print house, creating pre-press and print ready artwork for their clients.

1999 – 2000

K2 – Enna (Italy)

I also did a years worth of media design freelance work with this company working on web site and CD-Rom interface design solutions.

Personal Hobbies

When I’m not designing, writing novels, screenplays and lyrics, I like to go to the gym, collect rare film props, costumes and film soundtracks.

Software Applications:

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Quark Xpress

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Flash

Apple Final Pro Cut suite

Adobe After Effects

Apple DVD Studio Pro

Apple Logic Pro

Microsoft Office

Adobe Acrobat Professional

Apple iLife

Basic Coding Knowledge:

HTML

CSS

XML

Actionscript