Antonio de Luca (artist) explained

Antonio de Luca
Birth Name:Antonio Enrico de Luca
Awards:Art Directors Club, Society of Publication Design, Society for News Design, Time, The Guardian, Photo-Eye, American Illustration - American Photography, Communication Arts, Advertising & Design Club of Canada, Canadian National Magazine Awards
Birth Date:August 24, 1975
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Field:Creative direction, art direction, editorial design, long-form journalism
Training:OCAD University
Works:Self Publish, Be Happy, Five Dials, The Walrus

Antonio de Luca (born August 24, 1975) is a Canadian creative director and photobook designer based in New York. He is an assistant editor and visual columnist at The New York Times.[1]

In 2010 de Luca partnered with Bruno Ceschel's organisation Self Publish, Be Happy[2] as art director to design, promote and publish self-published photobooks. In 2013 he became the art director and designer of Five Dials[3] a digital literary magazine published in London by Hamish Hamilton.

As art director for Self Publish, Be Happy de Luca was awarded Best Photography Books of 2012 by The Guardian,[4] The Best Books of 2012 by Photo-Eye[5] and Time Best of 2012: The Photobooks We Loved.[6] He has also curated Follow Me[7] for Either/And commissioned by The National Media Museum London, on humankind's desire to follow.

De Luca is the founder and curator of an international illustration exhibition called The 100 $HOW™.[8]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antonio de Luca . The New York Times.
  2. http://www.selfpublishbehappy.com/about/ Self Publish, Be Happy
  3. Five Dials
  4. [Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|O'Hagan, Sean]
  5. http://www.photoeye.com/magazine_admin/index.cfm/bestbooks.2012.books Photo-Eye
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20121225110119/http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/24/times-best-of-2012-the-photobooks-we-loved/#55
  7. http://eitherand.org/eitherand/follow-me/
  8. Peggy Roalf, "The 100 $HOW Comes to Portland", American Illustration - American Photography, 2 February 2012. Accessed 10 December 2017.