SYMBOL-O-GRAPHY
2011
Description
Graphic Designs from my book based on a font.
Fields
Graphic Design, Typography
  • The design based from the book Symbol-o-graphy by Apostolos D. Tsiovaras.
  • Graphicart, even though closely related to advertising, constitutes a form of artthrough which the visual information becomes concrete in order to convey amessage.
     
    However, ifwe detach this process from the propagandistic-commercial aspect of advertising,graphic art turns into a form of free art that possesses a pictorial nature andcharacter, much as any other form of artistic creation.
     
    Stripped ofthe normative templates, graphic art is inspired by everyday life and, usingthe digital pen as a tool, it becomes a communicant of art messages.
     
    Theexperimental attitude and the curiosity for the true discovery of new aspectsin graphic art, hereupon bear black-and white linear representations ofsymbols, which are reinforced by self-appointed titles with no need forverbosities.  Emotions, expressions andthoughts are stamped into the subconscious and become real with just one“click”.
     
    The presentedition is self-limited design-wise and complies with strict rules, using anexclusively small number of  pre-assignedmeans in order to achieve the synthesis of symbols and images.
     
    The designis based on the combination of letters.
     
    Simplegeometrical shapes attempt to excite the viewers’ imagination, so that they candecode the message by themselves and compose or decompose the image in theirminds.  A kind of puzzle that has nopre-assigned depiction, since  every singlepiece, viewed in a different way and set in a different dimension, can render anew synthesis.  Symbol-images that urgethe viewers to go from synthesis to abstraction, reversing the forms which Ichose to work on.
     
    Ultimately,the roles are reversed and everybody makes their own realistic depictions.
  • Page 41 from the book "Symbol-o-graphy" by Apostolos D. Tsiovaras 
  • Page 49 from the book "Symbol-o-graphy" by Apostolos D. Tsiovaras
  • Page 37 from the book "Symbol-o-graphy" by Apostolos D. Tsiovaras.
    This is my design for new W.C. sign.
  • ISBN 978-960-931535-7
    October 2009 Larissa Greece.

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    Apostolos D. Tsiovaras
    CURSOR GLOBAL DESIGN STUDIO