Anyaa Dev
- Senior Art Director
- Netherlands
I was born an odd shade of beetroot in New Delhi. Soon I developed fingernails and learned to draw all over my parents’ clean white walls. They kept my drawings and called them ‘actually kind of cool’. That was my first piece of art direction and they were my first clients.
After 2 relationships, 4 internships, 1 jetski driven up a mountain, 3 different cities and 1298 salad boxes at Central Saint Martins, I now live in Amsterdam and work at Wieden and Kennedy.
I have been here for 7 years and found myself here. I work with the most incredible aliens on brands like Hennessy, Nike, Corona, Zalando, Airbnb, Facebook, Allianz, Samsung and many more. I also proudly call myself the “Pitch Bitch” because I love a high risk, high stress situation. I’m working on this with my therapist.
Being a woman of colour navigating my way through white, male waters, I have been extremely aware of who I am and what it means to have privilege in this world. I am more passionate about the activism involved in uplifting marginalised communities than absolutely anything else.
When the world gets heavy, I make art. I paint beautiful people of colour, thriving. I find rebellion in joy. I also make digital art for magazines, events, techno concerts and myself. I sometimes paint silly murals for serious workspaces. So I guess a lot has happened, but I’m still out here drawing on walls.
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