What has inspired you lately?

Hello! I'm Anthony Tadina, a designer, food lover, and all-around fun guy from the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. This is my portfolio.

I gather inspiration from the everyday — from anywhere, anyone, and anything — and fuse it with careful design to form the final piece. Whether it's the feel of business cards gone through a letterpress or the taste of toffee coffee ice cream from Bi-Rite Creamery, ideas can come from anywhere. What has inspired you lately?

How it all began.

Ever since I could remember, I've always been passionate about great design. Reading magazines, peering at store front windows, judging books by their covers — whenever I could, I'd surround myself with beautiful design and aspire to harness as much creativity as those who created the pieces that I admired. It wasn't until college when I immersed myself in the world of Adobe Creative Suite that I found a knack for translating it all in terms of a paint bucket, magnetic lasso, and a text box. From there, I learned the HTML/CSS language and terms like "frames per second" and "precompose"became a part of my vocabulary. What started as a passion turned into opportunities that allowed me to grow into the designer I currently am.

Today, I take both the passion I have with the knowledge I've gained and use it to design pieces that are conceptually strong, and that are infused with a bit of my personality in the colors, typefaces, and/or attitude. My hope is that my work can "speak for itself," in the sense that they can illustrate a passionate and eager designer inspired by the world around him.