Charis Tsevis is an amazing visual designer from Greece. He holds a Diploma of Graphic Design from the Deutsche Höhere Lehranstalt für Grafik und Werbung Athen (accredited by the Akademie für das Graphische Gewerbe) and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano. Charis manages his own studio by the name of Tsevis Visual Design, a visual design and business communication consulting company in Athens serving clients all over the world. He is very famous world wide for his creative artworks and has been featured in many books, magazines and websites.
His list of clients includes but not limited to Toyota, IKEA, Best Buys, TIME, Fortune, WIRED, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and many more. His intricate creations has won him awards at Epica, NPSA, Behance, EBGE and ED-Awards in the US and Europe and has been presented in exhibitions in Athens, Barcelona, San Jose and other cities around the globe.
He is very famous for his mosaics. “A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is often used in decorative art or as interior decoration. Most mosaics are made of small, flat, roughly square, pieces of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae” – Wikipedia. Among his creations are Hugh Laurie made with tablets and pills, a Steve Jobs created from all kinds of Apple gadgets, Darwin, Michael Jordan, the Obamas, Florence Welch, Mark Zuckenberg, Shaq, Amy Winehouse and Mother Teresa amongst others.
Here is a series of his experimental mosaic artworks based on the basic geometrical shapes, Squares, Triangles, Circles:
SQUARES:
Dancing/Surpassing me
Artwork created for the annual art exhibition of the Greek Association of Alzheimer Disease and Relative Disorders.
Girl with dandelion
Artwork by created for the annual art exhibition of the Greek Association of Alzheimer Disease and Relative Disorders
The Football Colors (Grigoris Makos)
A colorful portrait of Greek football player Grigoris Makos. A wedding gift for my cousins Athina and Grigoris.
Athina & Grigoris
A wedding gift for my cousins Athina and Grigoris.
African flower
There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.
— African Proverb
Experimental collage portrait of a South African girl.
Based on the wonderful photography of Luba Nel.
Night rider
Skateboarding at night. A study.
Here I Am
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Makes you want to move your dancing feet.
To the rescue, here I Am.
Want you to know, y’all, where I stand.
African dancer. A piece inspired by Bob Marley’s song “Sun is shining”.
Electric Festival Aruba
A portrait of Karim and Maurice Neme, organizers of Electric Festival for the cover of Xclusivo Aruba magazine.
TRIANGLES:
The heat is on!
A colorful Basketball player. An experiment with triangles and colorful …heat.
CIRCLES:
Uthanda ukudansa nami? (Would you like to dance with me?)
Portrait of a South African girl.
Based on the wonderful photography of Luba Nel.
DJ Bone: Detroit in Athens
A mosaic portrait of DJ Bone, a Detroit Techno DJ. Created for a party in an Athens club.
To know more about Charis Tsevis, please visit his pages at:
http://plus.google.com/117679238902343234690
http://facebook.com/CharisTsevis