2010 New Decade Comes

My greeting card for 2010. Hope you like it. It's ready for wallpaper too! The type designed by me.

New section on our site! Wallpapers :D

I proudly present you a new section on my website bluetit.gr with wallpapers for your desktop. Be sure more to come and more dimensions!! This is just a taste.
We are working on for a section with tees.... stay tuned!

b-positive's website! NEW!!!

It's time to get to know another brilliant graphic-visual designer and illustrator from Greece. He is young at age but with lot of experience because he used to be part of the poordesigner studio until this summer.

After many years in that team he decided to go on his own under the nickname b-positive.
Watching his works you could see clearly that he knows well to manipulate typography, comps, colour and his illustrations have a unique character.
There is not much for me to say because his work speaks for itself. Enjoy b-postive!

Create your own font!

Yes that's the name! Creating a font never was that easy. You only have to use your imagination.

This website helps you to create fonts that you can use for your projects and be unique for your clients. You can create only the characters you need for the project and if you want you can go back and create the rest of the characters. You can also create glyphs.

All these brought to you by the well know type foundry Fontshop

Oh, almost forget the website for fontstruct

Enjoy my friends.

European Union is looking for a new symbol

The familiar symbol with 12 stars

Rem Koolhaas's proposal in 2001

Graphic designer Hans Kruit's proposal for the new European Symbol in 2005

1955 German designer Arsen Heitz design the circle with twelve stars to represent the symbol of the European Council. After 1986 this symbol have been used to represent everything that has to do with the European Council or Union. The circle gives a sense of unit and equality and the number twelve gives a sense of perfection (like 12 months, hours etc).
After so many years a lot of things changed. First the European Council changed its name to European Union and of course now the countries that participates are more than twelve. What we call European Union now seems complete and it needs a new symbol for that.
So the newly established Dutch foundation Design De Haag (info) asks from the European designers to send in their design for the new symbol for Europe. 12 submissions will be selected by an international jury and will print on flags. These flags will be shown during the first edition of Design and Government 2010.
More informations you can find here

Vladimir Radibratovic // illustration & calligraphy

Today i am going to write for a person that i was admiring a lot and now that i' ve met him and taught me few about calligraphy i admire him more. It's not only that he is good in what he does but it's the way it treats you that make him so lovely. From my point of view is one of the best illustrators i know and of course he knows so many things about calligraphy. I think his arm end to pen not fingers :).

The man i am describing called Vladimir Radibratovic and he is Serbian Croatian! Not a good combination through 90's, something that made him leave his country and come in Greece as an immigrant. My comment here is that we got lucky to have him here. It wasn't easy for him at the beginning because the obstacles were too many, but if you are talented and you love what you do then you can override everything.

I like so much his style in illustration and he can draw a portrait like it's real. In his personal blog you can admire samples of his illustrations and his lettering! His blog. Do not hesitate to visit it.

Vladimir thanks! for having you here in Greece

Great works from Demetrios Tzavaras

Demetrios Tzavaras has a new website with his excellent work. He used to be part of poordesigners a well known design studio in the center of Athens. Now? Well why don’t you visit this page and find out more by yourself.

Sustainable design!

While i was stumbling on the net i found a very interesting website about designers and sustainability. We all here and talk about the environmental disaster and the impact that this has on our lives.

As you will read on this site, designers are a part of this disaster with what you sometimes do. The Design can change makes suggestions how your studio will become more sustainable. I believe that our job can help change things around environment, but first we have to change the way we work and be more eco friendly.

Read this site and you will find interesting tips that can help to turn our studios to ecological studios!

More here