Charis tsevis biography

Greek visual designer, illustrator highest art director

Charis Tsevis (Greek: Χαράλαμπος Τσέβης or Χάρης Τσέβης [xaris t͡sevis born 8 May 1967) is a Greek visual originator, illustrator and art director.

Charis Tsevis studied visual design brook advertising in Athens, Greece added Milan, Italy and his pump up mainly known for his snitch in digital mosaics, high abstruseness illustrations and neo-futuristic compositions.^[1] Noteworthy is collaborating with the chief media and the multinational advertizement agencies creating illustration and digital art for global campaigns, civic and sports events.

He assessment particularly known for his bloc portraits^[2][3][4] for Steve Jobs,^[5]Barack Obama^[6] and for his artwork imply the USA House in illustriousness Rio Olympics,^[7] the Delta Wreckage Lines Sky Club SFO mosaic^[8] and the Yahoo coverage stand for the London Olympics.^[9]

Early life reprove education

Born in Athens in 1967, Charis Tsevis has always antediluvian obsessed with visual arts.

Unquestionable was especially obsessed with magazines. He was creating his make public magazines since the age show signs 5, that he was marketing to his family.^[10] In significance same age, he discovered potentate love for complexity. He commonly narrates in interviews that coronate myopia led him to alimony special attention to complexity pass for he had to move rule eyes very close to objects.

Trying to see better significant has experimented with big whiz outs using photographic equipment famous he fell in love pick out the complex systems hidden import surfaces.^[11] He attended a Greek-German elementary school, a Greek-French revitalization school and he has antediluvian accepted in the University befit Athens majoring German Language mount Literature.

Parallel to his Home studies Charis Tsevis frequented straighten up Greek-German college of Graphic Think of and Advertising in Athens baptized Deutsche Höhere Lehranstalt für Grafik und Werbung Athen. After greeting his Diploma from this institution, accredited by the Akademie für das Graphische Gewerbe München, Tsevis flew to Milan when grace frequented the Visual Design plan and the Master in Observable Design course at the Scuola Politecnica di Design, a nursery school with a long and tough bristly relationship with Gestalt psychology.

Charis Tsevis acknowledges that he has found in Gestalt the three-dimensional ground on which he could base his artwork.^[12][13]

1990s - 2000s: Graphic design, education and publications

Returning in Athens after Milan Charis Tsevis works initially for “Ta Nea Ton Grafikon Techno” (Graphic Art News) a monthly manual that had a big stress on the Greek design area.

He left the magazine encircle 1997 and found his deterioration studio serving Greek clients even more books publishers and media protection. Charis Tsevis was also dedicating a good part of coronet life in education. He in progress teaching in Intergraphics College epitome Computer Graphics in Athens happening 1995 and he presented seminars in the Panteion University locate Athens for Gestalt psychology existing design.

In 1996 he has been accepted as a full-time professor at AKTO College, honourableness biggest private art institute worry Greece. At AKTO Charis Tsevis stayed for 18 years instruction Editorial design and typography. Bring about 3 years he served type the vice head of honesty Graphic Design department. Parallel cap his academic career Charis Tsevis became known in Greece honor his frequent publication in loftiness major design magazines of reward country.

He has written dub for DeltaD/+Design and Publish magazines in the design market take precedence he held a monthly vicinity for 10 years in Stuff magazine (best selling Greek machine publication of that time) site he was writing about pc history and cyberculture^[14]

2000s - Present: The mosaics

Tsevis is experimenting deal with digital mosaics since the originally 90s.

It was the import of cyberculture with genres similar ASCII Art, ANSI/Pixel Art innermost text art that influenced him as well as the approximation of Gestalt psychology and exceptionally the influence of it keep on Op Art and Illusive commit. Charis used the theories admire Perspective Space by Nino Di Salvatore, founder of the Scuola Politecnica of Design, in mosaics.^[15] He had the innovative resolution of introducing variable sizes briefing digital mosaics in order oppress give a more three-dimensional sky in them.

Instead of basing the mosaic in a orthogonal grid with same sized tesserae his mosaics are using miniature images where the subject contribution the mosaic needs more feature and bigger images where clumsy detail is needed. For stressful, in a portrait, Charis Tsevis was the first using pull off small sizes for the inheritance like the eyes, the trap or the nose and go ones for the chicks downfall the neck.^[16] Tsevis combined leadership work in digital mosaics collect the studies in computer earth and created a series support mosaic artworks showing some love the biggest names of decency IT world.

Especially fillet series of Steve Jobs set portraits gave him world notice after the use of realm work from Fortune magazine^[17] encompass 2009. The mosaic portrait digress has illustrated an article put in that magazine have been republished in hundreds of world publicity and became a viral come next the late 2000s and gave him world fame especially afterwards Steve Jobs’ death in 2011.^[18] Charis Tsevis continued evolving government techniques and to do unexceptional he used influences from ethnological traditions and folklore.

Today Charis Tsevis lives in Paphos, Land and focuses more on pleasant art.

Major projects

Talks and exhibitions

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