Cult or Kitsch? Neither! Just ultra durable cucumbers...

Creating an illustration for a cucumber advertising poster is not the most usual project that could happen to a designer. This is an illustration for Valentine F1, an ultra strong and durable type of cucumbers.

This is a fast and simple illustration for demonstrating reasons.

Finally this illustration is not the chosen one, but I think its kind of... cult so i decided to post it here.

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Blood Donation

This is an arwork, created for a blood donation meeting. It is actually a photo montage, mixed with one of my simple line-art "pantrifi" drawings. I think it was really important for me to express an optimistic view. Donating blood is giving life. Donating is a shiny and optimistic act, and this is the message that his poster should pass on.

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treasure hunting

Last weekend, I was hunting for a lost treasure in the streets of Rethymno. The "Lost Treasure" is a historical adventure game that takes place once a year in the city of Rethymno. The participants-treasure hunters are more than 5000 people.
The team that organizes the game this year (Mpoumpounes) told me to create the official poster. It is the second time I design a poster for this purpose. The first time was 1 year ago (see next post).
So... I decided to "deconstruct" one of the city monuments, the venetian "Rimondi" fountain.

I have also created a CD cover for the original treasure hunting soundtrack, composed by Antonis Zaharakis.

On Friday, I had a pleasent surprise related to last year's treasure hunting game (See the next post)...

The hunting was great fun. My team finally was 13th in the ranking (out of 45 teams). Not bad at all. Next year I hope for even better ranking, the trophy will be ours ;)

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carival of crete

The last couple of weeks I am working on illustrations for the Carnival of Rethymno, which takes place in Crete, Greece. For these illustrations I have been co-operated with the 3D animator Petros Naoumis, who created the 3D modeling for the ice dolphin (the dolphin cartoon is the trademark of the carnival). The project is still on process. The main Carnival Parade will take place in Rethymno, the 1st of March. The celebrations will be completed in the 3rd day of March.

It had to be something flashy that aims to a wide range of ages. The main sumject this year is the "water". Blue is really "cold" to be used for a celebration poster, but I tried to experiment with liquid forms.

This is the main illustration. I have created some more but I don't thing I m gonna use 'em at the moment...
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