Art direction and booklet design for Diathlasis, the leading company in architectural lighting. New Acropolis museum, National Glyptotheque and a few more extraordinary projects are included in this publication.
Diathlasis Architectural Lighting Portfolio
November 26th, 2010Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 Car Fleet
October 20th, 2010Car fleet design for the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012. As part of the visual identity development, we created a graphic system that works across many platforms. One of the first tasks in the whole project undertaken by our studio was the vehicle striping design for the XC60 and C30 Volvo car models. All original images copyright Volvo Car Corporation. More coming soon.
Fenafresh Corporate Image
October 20th, 2010The surreal mood of the new corporate image is based on the creation of characters, forms and space all of which intends to travel the reader far away from reality. The anthropocentric depictions attempt to renegotiate the way of presenting familiar comic characters and approach the audience by demonstrating an alternate way of reading.
Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012
September 17th, 2010Visual Identity Development for Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012. We are in the process of designing the new visual identity for the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012. The Volvo Ocean Race is the world’s greatest ocean yacht race featuring the fastest & most exciting monohull boats – the Volvo Open 70. Held every three years, the Volvo Ocean Race is the ultimate sailing prowess and human endeavor, building on the legacy of centuries of great seafarers – fearless men who sailed the world’s oceans. During the eight months of the Volvo Ocean Race, due to start in Alicante, Spain in October 2011 and finish in Galway, Ireland, during early July 2012, the teams will sail over 39,000 nautical miles of the world’s most treacherous seas via Cape Town, Abu Dhabi, Sanya, Auckland, around Cape Horn to Itajai, Miami, Lisbon, and Lorient. Each of the entries has a sailing team of 11 professional crew and the race requires their utmost skill, physical endurance and teamwork as they race day and night in the most extreme conditions. The race is the ultimate mix of world class sporting competition and on the edge adventure and stands undeniably the world’s premier global race and as one of the most demanding team sport events in the world. (source: volvooceanrace.com). All images copyright Volvo Ocean Race Asset Bank.
Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association September 2010
September 16th, 2010Visual identity redesign for HEBA (Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association). The new logo was unveiled by our team during the Basketball League official draw for the fixtures schedule of the 2010/2011 season, an event which was attended by numerous players, reporters and sports executives among others and was broadcasted live from ET1- the first and primary television channel of the Greek state broadcaster.
DU participates at Los Logos: Compass September 2010
August 31st, 2010We are honored by the successive inclusion of our work in the 5th best selling logos series Los Logos published by Gestalten. Like its predecessors, Los Logos: Compass offers a definitive overview of current developments and advancements in logo design — the creative discipline that shapes the identities of brands, companies, and individuals. This fifth edition in the Los Logos series is not only a source of inspiration and an authoritative reference manual, but also a valuable compass that shows that every design problem is a variety of creative opportunities in disguise. [source gestalten.com]
YMCA Camps 2010 June 2010
July 1st, 2010T-shirt design and type development for YMCA camps
A poster for Thessaloniki June 2010
June 21st, 2010The “Poster for Thessaloniki” by designersunited.gr is at the forefront of applied and visual arts, abolishing the separateness of these two genres and merging them into a new creative version. Respectively, the Thessaloniki proposed is a melange between past and present, selected consciousness, abstractions and vision, awareness and imagination. The golden element recalls the depth of byzantine icons, but also of the hot summer sun, whereas the silver element recalls the active present and the sea. The particular texture of the image puts aside the two-dimensional representation, inviting us to a visual, or in other words to a corporal, relationship with it. The horizon Thessaloniki seeks is steadily there, distinguishing between the two parts of the image and determining the past and the present of the city with a slight unrest. Secular and quasi sacred at the same time, contemporaneous and futuristic, the composition invites its viewers to become “readers”, but also to surpass the iconographic reading: in other words, to be exposed to the face of the Thessaloniki they desire and imagine.
Text by Thouli Misirloglou, historian of art, June 2010
Michail Semoglou
June 16th, 2010Michail Semoglou works as a calligrapher, type and typographic designer. He co-founded Cannot Not Design, a typographic design bureau, with Greek typographic designer Nicoletta Antonopoulou and Type Initiative with Chinese educator, type and typographic designer Keith Chi-hang Tam. Michail holds a BA in Communication Design from the Kent Institute of Art & Design and an MA in Typeface Design from the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is a member of the Society of Scribes & Illuminators, the Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society, the International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers & Teachers of Handwriting and the Typographic Circle. In addition, Michail gives lectures, runs numerous workshops and contributes articles to periodicals.
Paris Final Four 2010 official ball June 2010
June 9th, 2010Graphic application of the new emblem for Euroleague’s Final Four 2010, held in Palais Omnisports de Paris. Congratulations to Regal FC Barcelona, the new Euroleague champion!