Photography > Stifado event at Spata!

On Saint Peter's day there's an event at Spata (the town that I'm living), in which people are cooking, from previous night "Stifado" -a great, Greek dish- in large quantities and then they sell it in the morning. Basically, it's kind of a ritual.

It was my first time attending the event and I had a blast taking some pictures, early in the morning.

New workspace!

For the last couple of weeks, I'm re-arranging my space. I moved all of my office stuff into a bigger room, which was the giganto books' warehouse for the last 3 years. The new office is much-much bigger and definitely brighter. It's kind of noisy too (it's near a big road) but I don't mind that. I bought some second-hand furniture (the desk & the bookshelf -actually the bookshelf was a present from Dionyssis) from the garage-sale of the design shop, so a moving into a bigger room had to be done asap. 

Still it's kind of messy. It takes a lot of time organizing all this stuff that I have. I'll manage somehow...

Happy Birthday to me: My BRAND-NEW website is up!!!

Today, it's my birthday! I'm turning 33 years old and a bit wiser. As a present to myself, I made a new-site (it's wordpress based) and I uploaded it some minutes ago.

You may visit it here: www.onemanshowstudio.com

I like this site much more than the last one, mostly because each project has now at least one tag (category), so you can browse the site as you like. Another thing that I like is that the template/theme that I used for the new site, is grid-based (omg! I love grids so much).

Feel free to send me your feedback on the new site. I've uploaded some new projects also, from the last months' works (oh, and FINALLY, some of my "photography" projects). The site is still a work-in-progress project. I want to upload many more projects from the last couple of years (from now on, I will upload projects mostly on weekends).

That's all for now. So.... happy birthday to me!

News > Still working on the new site!

A couple of days ago I tried to mess around a little bit with the css of my new site. After hours of working new things, I got to the point where I believe that the free “portfolium” theme from wpshower is great as it is, so I’ll keep (almost) all the default settings.

So far, I've uploaded 46 projects but there are many more to come... It's great knowing that you can find anything you want from me on this new site. 

The site will be up on the net, on June 16th, the day of my birthday (right now, my url links to Behance iframe...).

Photography, inspiration > Old sign in Metaxourgeio!

Found this, while I was walking from my morning job (Omonoia square) to the Greek Designers Association (Metaksourgeio). I love vintage typography. Here’s a detail. “Καλύτερα” means “better”…

Photography > Man smoking in Notara str, Exarcheia

Some days ago, while I was trying to find a parking spot for my car at downtown Athens, I came across to this guy that he was smoking in his balcony, at Notara str. I was blown away because his whole look (even the way he was smoking) was too Miami-sh.

Here’s a detail of the photo:

Misc. Design > Monsieur Cabinet's mustache business card! (update 03.06.2011)

Old post (18.03.2010) >>> 

Got them today via air-mail! Four business cards (for me and my friends) of Monsieur Cabinet, a brilliant designer/illustrator from Great Britain, that I really admire.

He is mailing these mustache cards for a fun project: wear the mustache! Below you can see my picture.

 High five!

P.S.#1 > Follow him on twitter, too!
P.S.#2 > Click on the images to see larger pictures :P




UPDATE 03.06.2011 >>>
Monsieur Cabinet has a brand new site & my photo is featured on the thumbnail of the mustache project :P

Blast from the past > Akto College, color still life sketches!

More still life sketches while I was studied at Akto College. This time with color (the b/w ones, are here).

Year: 2002.

Blast from the past > Akto College, linoleum print making!

During my Akto College years again, here are some works I did in a linoleum-print-making lesson.

Blast from the past > Akto College, b/w still life sketches!

During my 2nd degree in graphic design, at Akto College, we had a course with still life drawings. These sketches were done with pencil. Soon, I'll upload the colored ones, too.