Ian Anderson journeyed into design by way of the music scene in Sheffield back in the 80s, designing flyers and record-sleeves for bands that were in his orbit. He set up his design studio The Designers Republic (tDR) with Nick Phillips in 1986 and established something of a signature brash style which soon attracted bigger clients like Kiss, Orange, Coca-Cola, helping him establish a two-decade strong design history, examples of which are held in the permanent collections of the MoMA in NY and V&A in London. In 2009, things took a darker turn and Anderson was faced with closing his studio. A year later, he was able to buy back tDR’s name and has been reviving its anti-establishment design aesthetic ever since.
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