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Anthony Smyrski
(United States)

“It’s been three years since I left Philadelphia to become part of The Radical Cut-Up. In completely unexpected ways, the RCU has played an integral part in my development as an artist and a human. It gave me a family when I first moved to my new home of the Netherlands. It sent me back to my University years, and also catapulted me further into adulthood. It demanded that I question how I had been working and what I had been creating for many years. It gave me something to push against, it made me feel humbled. The Radical-Cut up made me remember what I knew, and to simultaneously realize that there was so much more to discover. I learned how to move and fight again, how to listen to those both younger and older, and to those who possess completely different experiences than my own. I rebuilt my body, my mind, my creativity and my spirit. In the past year, I’ve worked on personal projects I never thought possible, been employed as a senior designer at a global agency, meditated every single day, and trained to keep my body in the best shape it’s ever been. In one week I will turn 40 years old - its the best 40 year old version of me that I can envision, and it would not of happened without the RCU.”


"adidas’ Faster Than_, 2020 campaign focuses not on athletes but on everyday heroes. In order to communicate the idea of the democratization of running, we created a diverse visual language including custom typography, colors and textures that referenced different ways in which individuals related to running in their own lives. On this project I worked with a fantastic team at TBWA/Neboko." Twofivesix is a Los Angeles based strategic consultancy that helps brands engage in the world of gaming. The challenge was to help Twofivesix create a website the clearly communicated with two distinct audiences at the same time: a younger generation that was raised on video games and inherently understood the role that gaming played in society, and an older generation that harbored misaligned preconceptions about gaming and how it could be relevant to a general audience. Carbon Social Club is a podcast that celebrates artists as some of the best communicators of environmental change. In each episode Lauren Gifford, PhD interviews artists, writers and makers about how the natural environment influences their creative process.