Myga logo design

Hi all. I know I haven't written an article for an long time. It has been pretty busy. One of the things that happened was the start of a collaboration with some other independent designers,under the name Indyvisuals. The Indyvisuals is a four member design band: Masterview, Design Insane, The Rut and me.
The latest project we have been working on is the branding of a live bar named
Μύγα, which means fly(the insect) in greek. The first brief we got was "We want a fly", so we tried to get more information we got "People don't like flies cos they come and bother you and flies spread deceases. And we want to open a bar that will have good music, good acts and it won't be low quality like the most of the clubs and bars in greece". So, we started working on flies. We worked on many ideas with various applications, flies on many surfaces, flies on records, with guitar picks, flies flying leaving traces, flies,flies,flies...


At one point we started working with an M and we tried to make a continuous one-stroke M which gave us the idea that it could look like a fly. And this actually led to the "winning" logo, not known at the time.


So we created the grid of the logo.


When the time came to meet with the client, we decided that we would present all the logos we designed, as we think it is good to show the ideas you have regardless of what you think the client might like or not. Because you never know.. We were surprised that they picked the logo we liked the most. After that we started working on the typography, we wanted to create a unique type to compliment the logo and not just use something common. Based on the logo we needed something geometric with straight lines and circles, we needed to create glyphs and we wrote the word μύγα with a marker a couple of times to see how the hand writing connects the letters.


Always we work the logos on white and black because that it is important to be able to communicate in neutral colors. When time came to pick colors, we first thought of the warning colors yellow and black but then decided we needed to soften them up a bit, so we used a hazy yellow and grey instead..


We also created a pattern based on the logo, to use on posters etc. We took inspiration from the arabic patterns and motifs.


This is the first promotion poster that we created for the bar.



indyvisuals
Masterview
Design Insane
Til01
Myga in Athens website

The story of a bird that was created free and it was copyrighted

Ok Here we have a Artist by the name Patrick Fore who presents this wallpaper as his personal work, its really nice but...

Well lets take a minute that reminds me of something O yes its a personal experiment of a friend of mine Charis Tsevis he is the real designer of this artwork.
The original artist Charis Tsevis says: "Licensed under Creative Commons for NON commercial use only" and the Patrick Fore has this artwork as copyrighted? And gives its as his wallpaper created by him through his website?
And even more he publishes this work in other networks like Creative cmyk Well this is how things work! First we steal the work of an artist with Creative Commons and then we copyright it and we presented as our work. Ok! Im not a good designer, I’m trying to become one, but I will never present others peoples work as mine I will try to discover the way he works I think that when we are young designers it is ok to imitate others works. But after a while the designer will filter down the work that he sees and will create a new or fresh style
And as Picasso ones said

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal

Well Picasso did not say to copy other people work but the things that are given to us free from the nature.

Selected work of 2008

This is selected work that I created last year i hope you will enjoy them as i did.
Happy new Year

"As the world my eyes see"
"Satisfaction is the death of desire"
"You are a f*cking Pig"
"Red wall" illustration for Fault Magazine Uk
"Jusqu'ici tout va bien." in the memory of Alexis Grigoropoulos
til01"The Future is unwriten"

Me&MyPen is Daren Newman

Daren Newman is designer, illustrator & typographer. Daren is from Manchester England Uk> I run on his web site by mistake but i felt so lucky to see his work on his site you would find a selection of his bespoke, hand-drawn typographic and illustrative work.
Daren Newman is Me&MyPen

"The hand of god" - Petros Voulgaris

Like the know football player Diego Armando Maradona who scored the most famous goal of all time the known "Hand of God", while the second goal was a spectacular 60-metre weave through six England players in the world football cup of 1986, the similar way the designer Petros Voulgaris starts and ends a project passing throw many thoughts and ideas with flexibility until he comes in the end scores, with the best solution. his latest project is a poster collection for the band Earthbound. In the spring 2006 he established the small design studio Indyvisuals.net. Petros main work is around the music industry as an illustrator, web designer. He worked with manes like Maria Farantouri, Yiorgos Eleftheriades, The Earthbound, Deus Ex Machina, Last Drive and Cast a blast Records. He has great to score and to keeps surprising us with fresh works.
Petros Voulgaris would be speaking @ the Adobe D-day in Athens 22/11

designinsane.org
indyvisuals.net

Julien Vallée

Julien Vallée Is young director artist motion and graphic designer,
he has a great way to with craft, lovely use of color with incredible ideas
With clients like MTV1, New York Times magazine, Print magazine, UK's best bookstores, im sure we are going to see more things from him in the near future.

Julien Vallée

Font park by Morisawa

Morisawa is on oldest font design companies in the world established in july 1924 with more than 240 employees sure is big. Recently released a mini site called font-park where you can explore typographic illustration there is a great random gallery and even create your own typographic illustration made out of Japanese characters enjoy it! 

Font-park

SI SCOTT

ENGLAND UK
Si Scott is a graphic designer from Leeds Uk, In the age of 16 he left his school and went Leeds College Of Art & Design after he moved to Buckinghamshire Chilterns University to study a degree in Graphic Design were he stayed for 2 or the years, and worked for some small agencies and continued to work freelance
He has worked for many big brands Like: nike Channel 4, bbc Tv, Casio , Volvo and many more.
Si, one of the most celebrated typographers of our time.
His work has spawned a thousand copycats.

si scott studio