About tsevis / Charis Tsevis  

Hi all!

I love Flickr! I think that it has become a very strong online community – and that’s a good reason for keeping it going so well and getting better and better. Since day one, Flickr among other Web 2.0 sites, made the web experience more alive than ever.

I can recall my decision, about one and a half year ago, to start publishing works of mine here at Flickr. Since then, this page has transformed day by day into that kind of websites that are very “personal” and in some way unique for me.

Who I am, how do I live
Well, allow me to tell you a couple of things about me:
My name is Charis Tsevis and I am a visual designer, living and working at Athens, Greece. I run my own studio under the name “Tsevis Visual Design” with my beloved wife Eva and our long time collaborator and partner, Aris Sakkas, both for domestic or foreign projects.

What we do mostly is providing our creative services at the advertising, publishing and editorial industry. I could say that we are specializing in high complexity digital illustration as well as typographic and book design.

A c a d e m i c s :
The journey of studying visual communication started at my hometown, Athens (Greece). There I had my first courses at the “German College of Graphics and Advertising” where I acquired a Diploma of Graphic Design.

My next station was in Milan, Italy, where I spend some time at the “Scuola Politecnica di Design” earning a Master in Visual Design.

It didn’t get too long for me to realize that I really love education, so sometimes I wonder my self: “Is it because I wasn't one of the best student in elementary or high school?” Maybe… but the story changed as I entered the SPD in Milan, where I found teachers like Nino Di Salvatore or Augusto Garau, who inspired me so much.

During my “Italian” years I was devoted to the study of Gestalt psychology and design following the thoughts of Bruno Munari, Gaetano Kanitza, Rudolf Arnheim, Gyorgy Kepes and of course my professors.

After returning to Greece I took the decision to dedicate a couple of days -every single week- to education. At 1993 I had my first own presentation and seminars at “Panteion University of Athens”, about the Gestalt theory. Next year, I organized the course of Visual Perception and Communication at the “Intergraphics College of Athens”.

Since 1996, I am a member of the faculty of the “Akto College of Art and design”, which is the largest and most respected Arts College in Greece. There, I have been teaching as a professor of Typography and Editorial Design, since the beginning of the Academic year 1996-1997. I also had the honor of serving as the Vice President of the Graphic Design Department for the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.

I have presented numerous speeches and seminars for many institutions and organizations including the “University of Macedonia” in Thessaloniki, the "Adobe D-Day", the “Marketing Week” magazine, the “+design” magazine, the “AKTO College of Art & Design”, the “Hellenic Design Institute”, the “Anodos SA” etc.

W r i t i n g :
I strongly believe that creativity is an equilibrated relation between theory and practice. So I love to study and to publish. I am working as a regular columnist for “RAM Magazine” – the best selling computer magazine in Greece - mostly covering computer history and culture issues.

During the past decade, I have also written articles about design, aesthetics and culture, which have been published by various Greek and international publications and portals, such as "Adobe Magazine" "+design", "RAM Cyprus", "In.gr", "Grafistas & Web Design", "Macland", “To Vima".

B o o k s :
My first book was published back in 2004 by “Lambrakis Press” and had the title (in Greek) “To Photoshop gia olous” wich means “Photoshop for everyone”. That book made 2 editions, sold more than 100.000 copies in Greece and it's by far the absolute bestseller book for Adobe Photoshop in my country.

Recently, I finished my second book titled “Adobe Photoshop CS3” published again by “Lambrakis Press”, slpited in two volumes of 316 pages each one. Even though I am not sure, I think this is the first book worldwide for the newest version of Adobe Photoshop or at least one of the very first.

S o c i a l i z i n g :
I am belonging to the minority who still appreciates politics. We may live difficult times but we need new ideas, new leaders and social awareness.
I think that politics is the highest art and science. So I am trying to be part of groups, companies and initiatives.

I have been a founding member of VCDC-Greece (Visual Communication Designers' Club). www.vcdc.gr VCDC is a non-profit organization, trying to establish an open meeting place for the Greeks -and not only- creative people.
I am not active in VCDC anymore but I am always proud of what a bunch of people has created in the early 00's

I have also been very active in the Obama 08 campaign, even if I am not a US citizen and I couldn't vote. But Barack Obama is one of the very few people in politics who inspired me so much. Of course I am thrilled and hopeful now that he became President of the USA.

P r o f e s s i o n a l A s s o c i a t i o n s :
I am a regular member of Greek Graphic Design Association.
I am also a full member of AtypI -Association Typographique International- even though I am more a reader than a writer, enjoying very much to follow the writings of Elen Lupton or Massimo Vignelli.


I am also a proud member of Parachute Type and Image Corporation , which distributes the typefaces I designed during last years. Panos Vasileiou -founder of Parachute and typeface designer- is a person I really admire.

If you are reading this I guess that you are a very kind and patient Flickr user. So, let me thank you for your visit and your interest. If you have any question, please don't hesitate! Just drop a line. I am always answering e-mails, even though I am not promising to reply immediately.

Best greetings!
Charis Tsevis

If it doesn’t seems Greek to you, you could pay a visit at my weblog.
tsevis.blogspot.com

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