Danny Capozzi AKA HERO73 was obsessed with drawing characters from the age of 6. Growing up in the 1980's, he was inspired by the graphics and the cultures that surrounded him; Skateboarding, Graffiti, Breaking, DJ-ing and urban photography. In 1999 he started to exhibit in Bristol and London and soon became part of Bristol’s urban art scene where he shared a studio with Will Barras, Mr Jago, (of Scrawl Collective fame) Sickboy, China Mike, Dicy and Paris. It was here that he developed his own unique style of illustrating and adopted his pseudonym HERO73.

 

 In 2001 Danny decided to round up all his doodles under one roof and opened the Bionyc Industries Shop along with his sister Bru creating limited edition prints and T-Shirts. After illustrating for 7 years the next natural progression for Danny was to move into Animation where he had the great pleasure of working with Aardman Animations to produce a CGI Animated show called ‘Chop Socky Chooks’ which was BAFTA nominated and won the Gemini award for best Animated series 2008. He then was head hunted by Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Channel 4 and MTV along with a host of agencies with fancy triple barreled names to work on various projects, including his own show 100HeadEddie which is still in development. He now works as an illustrator, Production designer and Director on series and commercials and produces screen and art prints for exhibitions. Spring of 2010 sees HERO73 teaming up with Inkie for the Style Wars doodle battles in various locations around Europe.