1. Charis Tsevis is a Greek visual designer, illustrator and art director.
20 Facts About Charis Tsevis
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Charis Tsevis studied visual design and advertising in Athens, Greece and Milan, Italy and his is mainly known for his work in digital mosaics, high complexity illustrations and neo-futuristic compositions.
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Charis Tsevis is collaborating with the major media and the multinational advertising agencies creating illustration and digital art for global campaigns, political and sports events.
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Charis Tsevis is particularly known for his mosaic portraits for Steve Jobs, Barack Obama and for his artwork for the USA House in the Rio Olympics, the Delta Air Lines Sky Club SFO mosaic and the Yahoo coverage of the London Olympics.
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Charis Tsevis was creating his own magazines since the age of 5, that he was selling to his family.
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Charis Tsevis often narrates in interviews that his myopia led him to pay special attention to complexity as he had to move his eyes very close to objects.
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Charis Tsevis attended a Greek-German elementary school, a Greek-French high school and he has been accepted in the University of Athens majoring German Language and Literature.
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Parallel to his University studies Charis Tsevis frequented a Greek-German college of Graphic Design and Advertising in Athens called Deutsche Hohere Lehranstalt fur Grafik und Werbung Athen.
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Charis Tsevis acknowledges that he has found in Gestalt the solid ground on which he could base his artwork.
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Charis Tsevis left the magazine in 1997 and found his own studio serving Greek clients especially books publishers and media houses.
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Charis Tsevis was dedicating a good part of his life in education.
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Charis Tsevis started teaching in Intergraphics College of Computer Graphics in Athens in 1995 and he presented seminars in the Panteion University of Athens for Gestalt psychology and design.
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At AKTO Charis Tsevis stayed for 18 years teaching Editorial design and typography.
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Parallel to his academic career Charis Tsevis became known in Greece for his frequent publication in the major design magazines of his country.
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Charis Tsevis is experimenting with digital mosaics since the early 90s.
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Charis Tsevis used the theories of Perspective Space by Nino Di Salvatore, founder of the Scuola Politecnica of Design, in mosaics.
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Charis Tsevis had the innovative idea of introducing variable sizes in digital mosaics in order to give a more three-dimensional atmosphere in them.
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For instance, in a portrait, Charis Tsevis was the first using very small sizes for the characteristics like the eyes, the lips or the nose and bigger ones for the cheeks or the neck.
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Charis Tsevis combined the work in digital mosaics with the studies in computer history and created a series of mosaic artworks showing some of the biggest names of the IT world.
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Charis Tsevis continued evolving his techniques and to do so he used influences from ethnic traditions and folklore.