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Desna Tural. Italian. Visual Designer. Illustrator. Berlin based.
FOR Not so many things to do but please try not make me regret trusting you PEOPLE
Desna Tural. Italian. Visual Designer. Illustrator. Berlin based.
FOR Not so many things to do but please try not make me regret trusting you PEOPLE
During high school I studied ancient Greek and Latin — because of my parents — , after I attended Chinese and Japanese arts, cultures and languages classes in Bologna for 2 years — as I wanted to get into cultures far away from mine, so it could be my parents fault all over again — and finally I attended the Palladio Institute of Design in Verona and got a degree as a Visual Designer in September 2013. During October 2014 I attended a short intensive Master in Illustration&Communication in Vicenza, and after it I've decided to focus my career on illustration.FOR I’m sorry you’ve really nothing better to do this morning PEOPLE
Most of people know me as Desna Tural but my real name is Elena Leone. When I started using this alterego - a completely invented one, no deeper meanings, no clues, no personal heroes or favourite goddess of the Indian pantheon - I thought it was very cool but I was just a 17-year-old girl living in Malo, Italy, a nobody-knows town where nobody said it was weird - and that to have an nom de guerre was awkward.
I moved to UK where I worked as a graphic designer and after 2 years of deficiency of vitamin D I've decided to move to Berlin because vitamin D deficiency is the new trend. I have been living here and working as a full time visual designer/art director since 2016, with regular skin check-ups.
Most of people know me as Desna Tural but my real name is Elena Leone. When I started using this alterego - a completely invented one, no deeper meanings, no clues, no personal heroes or favourite goddess of the Indian pantheon - I thought it was very cool but I was just a 17-year-old girl living in Malo, Italy, a nobody-knows town where nobody said it was weird - and that to have an nom de guerre was awkward.
*please mind that “Leone” means “lion” and I had an unhappy childhood because of this.
I know, it’s not the worst species in the whole animal kingdom but children’s imagination and rhyming skills might surprise you.
I know, it’s not the worst species in the whole animal kingdom but children’s imagination and rhyming skills might surprise you.