South Africa 2010: Black beauty

South Africa 2010: Black beauty, originally uploaded by tsevis.

Experimental typographic portrait of an African girl.
Expressing the elegance and the beauty of the African continent.

Made in Synthetik Studio Artist and Adobe Photoshop.
Typeface used is PF DIN Display Pro designed by Panos Vassiliou for Parachute Fonts. I have used the Light, Thin, Extra Thin and Hairline weights of this amazing typeface.

Best viewed in original size (3500 x 5250 pixels).
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Djibril Cissé: Panathinaikos 2009-2010

Djibril Cissé: Panathinaikos 2009-2010, originally uploaded by tsevis.

I have created this mosaic portrait of Djibril Cissé last August. I was quite optimistic about this talented football player and the role he could play in my favorite team, Panathinaikos FC (Athens). But I could never imagine that he would have scored so many goals and he could lead Panathinaikos to the top.
Yesterday he scored twice and Panathinaikos won against AC Roma in Rome for Europa Cup. So, thanks a lot, Djibril! You are great!
Hope you are gonna be recalled to represent France to the World Cup 2010 finals in South Africa. I am not a fan of the "tricolor" team but you surely deserve a place there.

This mosaic illustration is made with custom techniques and scripts in Synthetic Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime.
Typeface used is PFOnline by Parachute Fonts.

Licensed under the Creative Commons licensed scheme.
You can use this illustration for any non commercial work, but you have to credit me.

You can download a high resolution file here (5350 x 5496 pixels).

Charlize Theron: African beauty

Charlize Theron: African beauty, originally uploaded by tsevis.

Experimental mosaic portrait of South African born beauty Charlize Theron. Charlize was born in Benoni, Johannesburg, and she helped present the Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2010.

See more of my African inspired illustrations.

Best viewed large Attention: Huge file. (6656 x 7168 pixels)

Made with custom developed scripts and techniques in Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Apple QuickTime Pro.

Licensed under the Creative Commons License Scheme.
You can use this image for NON commercial projects.
Please, don't use it to express hate, racism or anything negative.

Design Walk 2010: Analog VS digital

Design Walk 2010: Analog VS digital, originally uploaded by tsevis.

This is a mosaic illustration made in collaboration with my friends at the Indyvisual Design Collective. These good fellas asked me to play with them on the subject "analog VS digital". They have been given this subject by Double Decker, curators of the Design Walk 2010.
The idea of Petros Voulgaris, Costas Vassilakis, Stavros Georgakopoulos, Christos Kourtoglou and Giorgos Chandrinos was to create a digital mosaic and then they would reconstruct it in an analog mode.
We chose to use the eyes from the poster of the Mathieu Kassovitz's "La Heine" movie. My friends are thinking that the film is not only a great classic but it's also expressing a period that our country is also living lately.
To provide a revolutionary response to this social mess we chose to use some leftist or military clichés like the star or the thunder but enrich them with floppies and scissors that are symbols of digital and analog creativity. The Black-Red-Yellow colors are not used only because we wanted to incorporate another cliché. These are the actual colors of the Indyvisuals' working space. (I think this guys are supporting a yellow soccer team or something... :-))

You can watch the making of the analog version of the mosaic.
You can read more about the Design Walk 2010.
You can visit the Indyvisuals webiste.

Made with custom developed scripts and techniques in Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Apple QuickTime Pro.
Best viewed large Attention: Huge file. (8192 x 3712 pixels)

Licensed under the Creative Commons License Scheme.
You can use this image for NON commercial projects.
Please, don't use it to express hate, racism or anything negative.

Thanks to Indyvisuals for the invitation.