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Regiane Yuki Sabanai
Presents
Illustrator
Anna Anjos
Nestle Chocolovers Campaign
Absolut Vodka
Coca Cola
Urban Posters
Anna Anjos was born in march 1985, in São Paulo, capital.

In 2006, graduated as a designer at Belas Artes de São Paulo. Her interest towards
cinema developed yet at her academic period. Became researcher of Scientific
Initiation Project in Cinematography Language and Video Design in 2005, which has
allowed the development of a more critical look towards audio-visual media.

She worked as colorist and designer at Fabrica de Quadrinhos and Hiperquimica,
working for multiple advertisement agencies in Brazil.

In 2008 took part on the development of the graphic Project to the Advertisement
Latin-American Festival, the El Ojo de Iberoamerica.

Nowadays, working as a freelancer plastic artist and illustrator, working for
editorial and advertisement markets, Anna Anjos already reveals the lines of a
mature artist with an original style making prevail her artistic audacity,
inventive and irreverent. Mixing stylish shapes, she extracts elements from
childhood to incorporate them into her creation reality, uncommon and surreal
making us enter into an original space where colors play with shapes without
letting behind the entail with the real world in which is inspired on her deeply
herself.  

This creative mix shows us a very special production: pure characters which
reflect innocence on their bodies, however revealing the toughness of their
personalities and of their emotions, through her well defined lines, amazing us
with the birth of a style which makes of Anna Anjos an unforgettable artist
already with her patent inside our contemporary artistic universe.

In the current phase of her career her look returns for the creation of her own
mythology, with the birth of the called “Afrotropical Entities”, developed for
the artist, with reference in Brazilian culture (northeastern) and African, giving
origin to personages who escape of the digital dimension and materialize
themselves under the form of masks and other forms of art. This  demonstrates
the current concern of the artist with the expression of a plastic, three-
dimensional nature, inserting her in an artistic universe of more including space.