Tony Suolanko
www.tonyboystudio.com
Designer, Musician | Gothenburg, Sweden
Brief Resume
I’ve always expressed my self through music and art. I don’t see any real difference between music and art. It’s just different tools to accomplish the ideas you have in your head. I come from a background as a graffiti painter. For years I made my living out of Graffiti. Graffiti is still the biggest passion in my life, even though I’m not able to be as active as I used to be. I’ve brought a lot of elements from graffiti into graphic design. Variation is what keeps me going.
As a kid I never had a computer which I think is good. Instead I was drawing and painting all the time. I got my first computer in 1998 and since that day I’ve used the computer in some way in all of my work. I learned to use all the software pretty quickly and found them very useful. It helped me to accomplish a lot of ideas that was hard to do with tradtional tools such as pencil, brush or a spraycan. I also got very interested of interactive web solutions and spent a lot of time on programming.
A lot of times I get tired when people let the software create insted of using it as a tool. Especially in the 3D world. It’s not about which computer you have or what software you use. It’s all about accomplishing the ideas in your head!
Right now I work as freelance with various projects.
Projects
I’m working on a lot of websites at the moment. I also do the layout for a magazine. I’m also about to start an Scandinavian Street-Art Ezine. The biggest problem is to deal with the permanent lack of time :).
Inspiration
Music is a huge source of inspiration. I listen to music all the time and it’s very good for your creativity. Huge pictures are constantly being drawn in my head. The work I enjoy most is when everything is crystal clear in my head. All I gotta do is to get it down on paper, canvas or digital media.
I also buy a lot of fashion magazines. I bring my cheap digital camera wherever I go and I constantly sketch. It’s hard for me to sit still without having a pencil in my hand. The worst thing I know is people that are slaves under trends. I mean, there must be a purpose and a reason to your work. My purpose is to be as creative as I can and to follow my self. Of course you get influenced but sampling your self is a thing I like to do in both music and art.
Favourite url’s for inspirations
Graffiti – www.graffiti.org
Banksy – www.banksy.co.uk
Bloodwars – www.sfaustina.com
And Google is of course always very useful :)
My Toolbox
Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Cubase, Wavelab plus various other software for specific needs. And my dear ol’ PC. And last but not least, pencil & paper!
Thanks Tony Suolanko for having taken his time to make this interview with us
Interview done by Flavio Monteiro for UAILAB
October 2004
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