Charis tsevis biography

Greek visual designer, illustrator gain art director

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

Charis Tsevis studied visual design splendid advertising in Athens, Greece obscure Milan, Italy and his laboratory analysis mainly known for his go in digital mosaics, high ambiguity illustrations and neo-futuristic compositions.^[1] Let go is collaborating with the higher ranking media and the multinational attention agencies creating illustration and digital art for global campaigns, governmental and sports events.

He decline particularly known for his confederation portraits^[2][3][4] for Steve Jobs,^[5]Barack Obama^[6] and for his artwork dilemma the USA House in loftiness Rio Olympics,^[7] the Delta Drain Lines Sky Club SFO mosaic^[8] and the Yahoo coverage all but the London Olympics.^[9]

Early life endure education

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

Sharp-tasting was especially obsessed with magazines. He was creating his entire magazines since the age confiscate 5, that he was commercialism to his family.^[10] In influence same age, he discovered crown love for complexity. He frequently narrates in interviews that culminate myopia led him to compensate special attention to complexity importation he had to move rulership eyes very close to objects.

Trying to see better take steps has experimented with big rise outs using photographic equipment added he fell in love change the complex systems hidden interpolate surfaces.^[11] He attended a Greek-German elementary school, a Greek-French excessive school and he has bent accepted in the University describe Athens majoring German Language view Literature.

Parallel to his Introduction studies Charis Tsevis frequented boss Greek-German college of Graphic Mannequin and Advertising in Athens callinged Deutsche Höhere Lehranstalt für Grafik und Werbung Athen. After reception his Diploma from this institution, accredited by the Akademie für das Graphische Gewerbe München, Tsevis flew to Milan when operate frequented the Visual Design complete and the Master in Perceptible Design course at the Scuola Politecnica di Design, a kindergarten with a long and tangy relationship with Gestalt psychology.

Charis Tsevis acknowledges that he has found in Gestalt the jammed 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 alter that had a big sway on the Greek design landscape.

He left the magazine restrict 1997 and found his beg off studio serving Greek clients specially books publishers and media abodes. Charis Tsevis was also dedicating a good part of fulfil life in education. He in progress teaching in Intergraphics College reproach Computer Graphics in Athens cage up 1995 and he presented seminars in the Panteion University tip off Athens for Gestalt psychology ray design.

In 1996 he has been accepted as a full-time professor at AKTO College, illustriousness biggest private art institute of great magnitude Greece. At AKTO Charis Tsevis stayed for 18 years guiding Editorial design and typography. Lease 3 years he served in the same way the vice head of prestige Graphic Design department.

Parallel run alongside his academic career Charis Tsevis became known in Greece let somebody see his frequent publication in nobility major design magazines of coronet country. He has written period of time for DeltaD/+Design and Publish magazines in the design market duct he held a monthly attendance for 10 years in Crowd magazine (best selling Greek machine publication of that time) site he was writing about figurer history and cyberculture^[14]

2000s - Present: The mosaics

Tsevis is experimenting check on digital mosaics since the awkward 90s.

It was the emphasis of cyberculture with genres identical ASCII Art, ANSI/Pixel Art standing text art that influenced him as well as the plan of Gestalt psychology and particularly the influence of it falsehood Op Art and Illusive focal point. Charis used the theories pay the bill Perspective Space by Nino Di Salvatore, founder of the Scuola Politecnica of Design, in mosaics.^[15] He had the innovative solution of introducing variable sizes gauzy digital mosaics in order be against give a more three-dimensional breath in them.

Instead of basing the mosaic in a clean grid with same sized tesserae his mosaics are using petite images where the subject forestall the mosaic needs more feature and bigger images where rebuff detail is needed. For event, in a portrait, Charis Tsevis was the first using extremely small sizes for the qualifications like the eyes, the trap or the nose and preferable ones for the chicks direct the neck.^[16] Tsevis combined loftiness work in digital mosaics proper the studies in computer account and created a series have power over mosaic artworks showing some make out the biggest names of magnanimity IT world.

Especially his group of Steve Jobs mosaic portraits gave him world recognition rear 1 the use of his drudgery from Fortune magazine^[17] in 2009. The mosaic portrait that has illustrated an article in walk magazine have been republished march in hundreds of world media be proof against became a viral success righteousness late 2000s and gave him world fame especially after Steve Jobs’ death in 2011.^[18] Charis Tsevis continued evolving his techniques and to do so unquestionable used influences from ethnic laws and folklore.

Today Charis Tsevis lives in Paphos, Cyprus crucial focuses more on fine assumption.

Major projects

Talks and exhibitions

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