Campaign against the deterioration of Greece’s image.The objective is to react on this deterioration and tackle the negative image that is build by right wing press and media. This will be achieved by returning the argument that Greeks must change their culture by learning how to look at their own country with different eyes. The opposition, between the negative image of Greece and its reality is reflected by introducing the Greek word philotimo. The project was exhibited in CBK gallery in Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Poster from the Valorised Designer project with Pratt Institute NY. The project was to design a poster after having in mind a design product that we consider as a valorised one according to Nigel Whitley’s text “The Valorised Designer” My choice was the work of Loesje.
Life is beautiful. Poster designed within a workshop led by Mieczysław Wasilewski. Part of the Lahti poster biennial exhibition of 2011.
Everybody in da kiosk. School project about a very multicultural neighborhood in Rotterdam, exhibited in October 2010 in Roodkapje gallery in Rotterdam.
Three posters for the annual competition 10 IMAGES FOR ITHAKA www.tenimages.org. Τhe first poster was submited in 2008 when the competitions theme was the dream. The second in 2009 for the theme I and the third in 2010 for the theme labels.
I love you from distance. Poster not to keep distance from.
Poetry in public space. A visual essay about one from many of Rotterdam’s construction sites and a proposal for a typographic implementation of a poem in that site. The project aims to comment on the fact that in the city of Rotterdam there are so many construction sites that at the moment do not make the lifes of the inhabitants better (as the renderings on the fences surrounding this sites depict) but instead more difficult. In that sense the fence is a “fata morgana”. The implemented poem is exactly about that.
Free-dom without opportunity is a devil’s gift. Typography design of Noam Chomsky’s quote commenting that the market bargains of our times are not a form of freedom of choice. The reality “without opportunity is a devil’s gift” is hiding in the small letters the same way it does in print or TV adds. The color of the typography is florecesnt orange like the bargain signs found in markets. Dom, in Dutch means stupid.
Two posters submitted for the competition of posters for tomorrow about freedom of expression in 2009
Poster for the retrospective tribute to the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos. “Looking back at the 100 years of Yannis Ritsos 1909-2009″. Photography by Platonas Maximou.
Poster about freedom from orthodox religion, designed for the Graphic Design Association of Greece. The Greek orthodox church in my point of view is no longer spiritually oriented but commercially. Its power is based on myths, a power that sometimes was expressed with long hair and beards, like in the Samson and Delilah myth.
Poster, about the equality of social classes.
Poster for the 20th of June, the world’s refugee day, designed for the Graphic Design Association of Greece. The majority of refugees in Greece, come from countries in the middle east. Showing your feet in the middle east is an insult. The text in the image means: I step somewhere and I find myself somewhere else, in Greece this is a very famous idiom mostly used in a bad way.
Print add for Amnesty’s International magazine in Greece. Award winner in the print add category of the Greek graphic design and illustration awards EBGE of 2009.
Print ad for Allou Fun Park, a large theme park in Athens. Advertising Agency: Cream / Creative Director: Fotis Georgiou / Art Director: Filimonas Triantafyllou / Copywriter: Alex Esslin. Gold prize in the print add category of Greek Advertising Awards ERMIS in 2009.
Poster for the design museum of Thessaloniki that it remains without a building for 10 years. The poster was designed for the participation of Alex Esslin in the Greek graphic design and illustration awards EBGE 2008. It won the first prize.
Participation to “E” magazine’s invitation in designing for world’s AIDS day 2007. Advertising Agency: Cream / Creative Director: Fotis Georgiou / Art Director: Filimonas Triantafyllou / Copywriter: Alex Esslin / Illustrator: five blue wishes. Gold prize in the print add category of Greek Advertising Awards ERMIS in 2008.
From Verbal to Graphic. A poster about the border between verbal and graphic language designed for the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Graphic Communication, but never submitted.
