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

typographicposters.com

Im happy to announce that i was invited to typographic posters
typographicposters.com

First of all we think the world must be changed

…the challenge is to change the world!

My friends over the Indyvisuals design studio (they specialize in creating websites, online applications as well as flyers, posters and cds) with the very help of pSit, cast-a-blast, cynic design and alex k., will take part at this year’s Design Walk, im invited to participate on February 6-8 2009 in Athens.

Be around for more…!

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

Adobe-D-DAY Athens 2008

Adobe D-Day is a conference which takes place around the world and features top international and local talent discussing issues on inspiration, innovation and latest design solutions. They offer a high degree of expertise in a variety of fields such as video, web, motion graphics, print and much more. Furthermore, the event includes a showcase of hardware and software vendors which offer creative solutions to the design industry. Now, for the first time, the one day conference will be held in Athens, Greece on the 22nd of November. The D-Day event is powered by Adobe and is expected to draw a large number of participants. It is the second in a row this year, after the successful conference which was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates back in April. The speaker line up includes diverse experts such as Icograda’s Vice President Mohammed Joggie, the President of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) Freda Sack, highly acclaimed designer and Adobe’s Channel Manager Charis Tsevis, Adobe’s Senior Worldwide Evangelist Paul Burnett, designers Yiorgos Kostopoulos and Petros Voulgaris, expert photographer Takis Diamantopoulos, as well as, award-winning typeface designer and founder of Parachute® Panos Vassiliou.
For registration information and program details visit Adobe D-Day

"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

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

new bodoni script pro from Parachute fonts

The online version of Bodoni Script Pro has just been released. Based on Bodoni’s distinct swash capitals, this is not simply a digital version of his work, as this typeface was designed with connected lowercase characters and capitals with extra calligraphic elements. It was first released back in 2002 and published in Parachute’s award-winning catalog/book IDEA/Trendsetting Typography vol.1. Later in 2005 a large number of ornaments and borders was revived. All this work was left behind until recently when it was revisited to create a complete 'Pro' family. Several new uppercase and lowercase glyphs were designed in order to make it stand out on its own. Bodoni Script Pro is a (3+1)-weight superfamily. It supports 10 special opentype features including 'contextual alternates' as well as support for both Latin and Greek. Each font comes with 725 glyphs including a large number of alternates as well as 144 ornaments. The full package includes an additional 'bonus font' which contains 120 frame parts. These parts, when put together, create some truly amazing borders.Bodoni Script ProParachute's blog

long live diversity! IKEA promotion 2008

this is a great work from ikea we really loved this mosaics only if you can see the details this are the other illustrations that made and published for this campaign from the work of  Tsevis Visual Design

Credits (in Swedish):
Projektledare: Susanna Fagring, Olle Victorin
Produktionsledare: Ewa Edlund, Elin Sohlberg
AD: Anders Eklind, Anna Kask
Copy: Fredrik Jansson, Anders Hegerfors
Formgivare: Christoffer Persson
Illustratör: Charis Tsevis
Original: Factory F&B

Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.

Copyright: Tsevis Visual Design, Forsman & Bodenfors