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Bureau Antonio de Luca is a Berlin-based communication & design studio founded by Antonio de Luca in Amsterdam, 2011. Antonio de Luca is the currently the Head of Art for J.Walter Thompson (Germany); Art Director for Self Publish, Be Happy (London); and Guest Professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design (Switzerland).
Recent projects include Self Publish, Be Naughty (SPBH, October 2011) and American Photography 27 (AP27, November 2011). de Luca is also the founder and curator of the 100 €URO SHOW & 100 $HOW.
Previously Antonio de Luca has been an Art Director at Wieden + Kennedy (Amsterdam), the founding Creative Director of the general interest magazine The Walrus and a guest professor at the AdBK Nürnberg (Germany).
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Clients (a selection):
- American Photography
- Corporate Knights
- Dupont Publishing
- EA Sports
- Heienken
- Levi’s
- Nokia
- Self Publish, Be Happy
- Tanqueray
- The National Post
- The Walrus
- Time Warner Inc.
- Wieden + Kennedy
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Chronology:
- 08.24.75 – Born in Toronto, Canada
- 1996-99 – Ontario College of Art and Design, “Diploma Communication-Designer”
- 1999-00 – Art Director at Weekend Post newspaper
- 2001 – Founded Open Inc.
- 2001-02 – Designer at Saturday Night magazine
- 2002-03 – Art Director at Shift magazine
- 2003-08 – Creative Director at The Walrus Magazine
- 2005-06 – Design Consultant at DOSE daily newspaper
- 2006-08 – Instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design
- 2008-11 – Cover Art Director at Corporate Knights magazine
- 2008 – Moved to Brooklyn, New York
- 2009 – Moved to Munich
- 2009 – Guest Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, Germany
- 2009 – Founder and Curator of the 100 Euro Show
- 2010 – Returned to Toronto
- 2010 – Head of Art at Red Urban/DDB Toronto
- 2010 – Moved to Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2010-11 – Art Director at Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam
- 2011 – Founded Bureau Antonio de Luca, Amsterdam
- 2012 - present – Art Director for Self Publish, Be Happy, London
- 2012 – Moved to/based in Berlin, Germany
- 2012 - present – Guest Professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland
- 2012 - present – Head of Art for JWT Germany, Hamburg
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Contributing artists (a selection):
Air de Paris, Aorta, Lars Arrhenius, Olaf Blecker, Barry Blitt, Shary Boyle, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Chris Buck, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff, Elinor Carucci, Seymore Chwast, Lynne Cohen, Douglas Coupland, FAILE, Joe Davis, Peter Dench, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Bryce Duffy, Jason Fulford, Lauren Greenfield, Kyoko Hamada, Jenny Holzer, Olivier Jobard, Damien Hurst, Rem Koolhaas, Nikki S. Lee, Rita Leistner, Chris Levine, Loretta Lux, Arnaud Maggs, Kerry James Marshall, Bruce Mau, Bruce McCall, Ryan McGinley, Moby, Andrei Molodkin, Abelardo Morell, Farhad Moshiri, Nam June Paik, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Annie Pootoogook, Rinzen, Graham Roumieu, Michael Schmelling, Amet Sel, Tamara Shopsin, Dan Tobin Smith, Thomas Struth, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
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Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, & Moderations:
- 2012 – Hamburg: JWT Germany
- 2011 – New York: “Big Talk” at AI-AP.com
- 2010 – Toronto: OCAD, “Okay Now What? How to survive as a professional illustrator”
- 2009 – Nürnberg: Akademie der Bildenden Künste, “Antonio de Luca Kommts”
- 2009 – Karlsruhe: Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, “Antonio de Luca Kommts”
- 2009 – Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, “Working w/ Art Directors”
- 2009 – Nürnberg: Neues Museum Staatliches Museum “Where Do Ideas Come From”
- 2009 – Karlsruhe: Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, “My Name Is”
- 2009 – Nürnberg: Akademie der Bildenden Künste, “My Name Is”
- 2008 – Berlin: Art Directors Club of Germany, “The Future Is Illustrated”
- 2008 – Nürnberg: Akademie der Bildenden Künste, “The Future Is Illustrated”
- 2007 – Toronto: Sheridan Art College, 4th Year Illustration
- 2007 – Vancouver: Western Magazine Conference on “Canadian Illustration”
- 2006 – Toronto: Ontario College of Art and Design, 4th Year Illustration
- 2004 – Munich: Class of Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, Germany
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Previous Employment:
- Wieden + Kennedy (Amsterdam), Art Director, June 2010-September 2011
- DDB/Red Urban, Head of Art, January 2010-April 2010
- Corporate Knights, Cover Director, October 2008-October 2011
- The Walrus, Creative Director, May 2003-July 2008
- DOSE, Design Consultant, January 2005-May 2006
- Shift, Art Director, May 2002-May 2003
- Saturday Night, Designer, May 2000-May 2001
- Weekend Post, Art Director, April 1999-May 2000
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Awards:
- The Art Directors Club of New York & Germany
- The Society of Publication Design
- The Society of Illustrators
- American Illustration & American Photography
- The Advertising & Design Club of Canada
- The Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation
- Prix Pictet
- The Walrus, The Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation, 2009
- Gold – Art direction for a single magazine article, “Part One: A Legend Is Born”
- Gold – Words and pictures, “Our Faces, Our Selves” by Giles Revell, Matt Willey, and Matthew McKinnon
- The Walrus, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, 2009
- Silver – Art direction, “Our Faces, Our Selves” by Giles Revell & Matt Willey
- The Walrus, The Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation, 2008
- Gold – Illustration, “God’s Slow Death” by Sam Weber
- Gold – Portrait Photography, “Miss Canadiana” by Robyn Cumming
- Gold – Spot illustration, “Tank Talk” by Leif Parsons
- Silver – Cover, “Lightness of Being (The Queen)” by Antonio de Luca
- Silver – Still-Life Photography, “Digby Neck” by Russell Monk
- Silver – Photojournalism and Photo Essay, “The Chinese Dust Bowl” by Benoit Aquin
- Benoit Aquin, The Prix Pictet, 2008
- The Prix Pictet is given to photography projects that highlight sustainability issues. The inaugural winner was Walrus contributor Benoit Aquin, for his photo gallery “The Chinese Dust Bowl,” about the desertification of farmland in China. In presenting the award to Aquin, Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, said, “It is my hope that the Prix Pictet will help to deepen understanding of the changes taking place in our world and raise public awareness about the urgency of taking preventative action.”
- The Walrus, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, 2008
- Silver – Art direction for spread, “The Counterpart” by Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau
- Silver – Illustration, “Parallel Universe” by Graham Roumieu
- Silver – Illustration, “Tunneling Through Time” by Chris Lee
- Silver – Cover, “Lightness of Being (The Queen)” photographed by Chris Levine
- The Walrus, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, 2007
- Gold – Cover, “Grid Solution” by Ludimar Hermann
- Gold – Illustration, “God’s Slow Death” by Sam Weber
- Gold – Photojournalism, “The Last Lumber Jacks” by Rita Leistner
- Silver – Art direction for a single magazine article, “The Teenage Brain”
- Silver – Art direction for a single magazine spread, “Red Rush”
- Silver – Conceptual photography, “A House Half Built” by Liz Cowie
- Silver – Conceptual photography, “Brighter Lights, Bigger Cities” by Eamon Mac Mahon
- Silver – Illustration, “Her Dog” by Jillian Tamaki
- Silver – Illustration, “My Cherry” by Marcos Chin
- Silver – Illustration, “Snail Males” by Zoe Barcza
- Silver – Portrait photography, “Alienated Cosmopolitans” by Robyn Cumming
- Silver – Photojournalism, “Separate and Unequal” by Eamon Mac Mahon
- The Walrus, The Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation, 2006
- Gold – Magazine of the year
- Gold – Art direction for a single magazine article, “The Teenage Brain”
- Gold – Art direction for an entire magazine issue, “Bird Flu Fever”
- Gold – Magazine cover, “The Alberta Cash Cow”
- Silver – Illustration, “Hijacking History” by Graham Roumieu
- The Walrus, The Art Directors Club (NYC), 2006
- Silver – Photo illustration, “Waiting for the Pandemic” by Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford
- Silver – Illustration, “Might Is Wrong” by Rinzen
- The Walrus, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, 2006
- Gold – Art direction for a single magazine article, “Waiting for the Pandemic”
- Gold – Art direction for an entire magazine issue, “Bird Flu Fever”
- Gold – Illustration, “Ephemera” by Leif Parsons
- The Walrus, The Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation, 2005
- Gold – Art direction for a single magazine page or spread, “Totally Genius”
- Gold – Illustration, “Dangerous Liaisons” by Jillian Tamaki
- Gold – Words and pictures, “Al Rashad&lrdquo; by Rita Leistner and Joshua Knelman
- Gold – Portrait photography, “Jew Funk” by Davida Nemeroff
- The Walrus, The Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation, 2004
- Gold – Art direction for a single magazine page or spread, “Will Bush Win/Will Kerry Win?”
- Gold – Spot illustration, “How to Save Democracy” by Leif Parsons
- Gold – Words and pictures, “Inside a Different Kabul” by Ahmet Sel
- Shift, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, 2002
- Gold – Art direction for an entire magazine issue, “Culture Where Art Thou?”
- Gold – Art direction for a single magazine page or spread, “Being John Lee”
- Silver – Art direction for a single magazine article, “Unplugged, Seven Days with No Tech”
- Silver – Art direction for a single magazine page or spread, “My Keyboard, My Wrists...”
- Silver – Art direction for magazine cover, “Why Technology is Failing Us”
- Silver – Portrait Photography, “Green Innovators”
- Silver – Portrait Photography, “Shift’s 2002 Guide to Digital Education”
- Silver – Photojournalism, “Rawshift: Freedom”
- Saturday Night Magazine, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, 2001
- Gold – Design of a magazine cover, “When Dolphins Go Bad”
- Gold – Design of a feature (spread), conceptual photography, “Picture Imperfect”
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Teaching:
- Guest Professor
- Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg
- “Creating Public Art,” April 2009-August 2009
- Instructor
- Ontario College of Art and Design
- “Editorial Design_01,” September 2006-July 2008
- “Editorial Design_03,” January 2007-April 2008
- “New Directions in Pictorial Design,” September 2006-April 2007
- “Working with Art Directors,” January 2007-April 2007
