Tony leads AnLar’s Design Team. He’s in a co-dependent relationship with his cat and guides the creation of publications, graphics, web products, logos, illustrations, animations, and whatever else his talented team can help bring to life. He’s spent much of the past two decades meticulously crafting products for clients and partners¹, scraping hundreds of notches in his pencil² to date.
His path has meandered³, but after studying and working⁴ in social sciences, animal behavior, public policy, data analysis, and data systems, Tony devoted more attention to artistic endeavors and steadily earned a reputation for fastidious and creative design and communications work⁵.
Tony and his family currently live on a windy, weathered edge of Palm Springs, CA. When he’s not with his cat at their desk⁶, Tony is likely out quietly wandering the wilderness or working on his house, hanging out with his wife and their two teenagers, following their dogs around the desert, or occasionally napping under a tree.
¹ Clients in federal government, state agencies, universities, elementary schools, non-profits, the private sector, etc.
² Ticonderoga HB2
³ Though a high school teacher encouraged him to go to art school, Tony decided to learn more about the natural and social sciences and spent time supporting studies in visual perception and social neuroscience labs, as well as an Anthropology project with a Philadelphia school community. After contemplating a career studying primate behavior, he shifted his focus towards data and human behavior and landed a job supporting research at Education Week magazine, then performing data analyses on the U.S. Department of Education’s oldest data collection (the Common Core of Data), before moving on to author a four-book series on longitudinal data systems, etc.
⁴ M.P.P. from American University, B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology from Temple University.
⁵ Translating complex information into digestible, useful, and visually appealing products.
⁶ Yes, it’s their desk. They both use the keyboard and enjoy the view of the creatures outside.
