Joseph Foskolos Portfolio
Joseph Foskolos Chrisippou 52 17237 Athens josephfoskolos@hotmail.com behance.net/josephfoskolos
Projects varied between the following categories: GD - Graphic Design ID - Interior Design INS - Installation PH - Photography FD - Furniture Design AW - Artwork SW - Student Work
GD Lena Mare - Boutique Hotel Corfu Island New logo design and graphic design for various applications including business cards, menus, guest directory, placemat, coasters, artworks and signs. The concept was based on the island’s greenery landscape that can also experienced in the hotel’s surroundings, with a minimal touch to follow the interior design renovation of the hotel.
GD Gefsinus Proposals for an updated image of Gefsinus catering company.
GD Cleo Gatzeli - Summer Tales New logo design for Cleo Gatzeli, fashion designer, focusing on sea waves. - Sea is representing the beach couture of the brand. - Waves (In Greek: Κύμα: Κύω / Κυοφορώ = bringing something inside) are representing the designer’s original ideas that come to life. - The motif of the waves is representing the designer’s unique style, as motifs of many different kinds have an extended use in her products.
GD A series of promotional posters about a DJ residency. Inspiration was taken by old oil paintings with the main theme of “Music Lessons� or music in general. The background colors of all posters were inspired by the real light illumination of the bar during nighttime.
Digital Photography / 100*100
AW An artwork designed for the enrtance of a dental clinic in Santorini island. The concept follows a tooth map with the 32 teeth of a human’s mouth replaced by seashells. The color, the scheme and the tooth-enamel like of the seashell material makes them look like real teeth. The holes that some seashells have on them and the brown color that is spread through it’s an easy metaphor of common dental diseases. Though the image causes pleasant feelings as the view of the seashells has a positive sense and serves as a reminder of the sea and beaches that surrounds the famous island of Santorini.
GD Proposal for four varieties of a wine label for the Department of Oenology and Beverages Technology of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (T.E.I.)
INS Installation for the book presentation of “Control Zed” by Vasilis Kampouris @ Frown, Athens
GD Personal business cards focusing on the uniqueness of each card to highlight the uniqueness of each customer/project
GD #aportraitproject ... is about experimenting on different people faces and how they can come “alive� within the most minimal way. The lesser lines. The absence of eyes and mouth shaping. Hair fomations that surrounds empty faces. A mind game of filling the image with random memories. Designed in a drawing app on iPhone aportraitproject.tumblr.com
The project currently consists of 39 portraits
GD Logo Design
ID Participation to a competition about “Designing a virtual pharmacy or optical store� Minimal design with emphasis on the cross, symbol of the pharmacy, reflected in the facade. The facade is converted to organic internal tumors of the store that grow round the room giving the impression that they are embracing the customer. Formulas of drugs shown in the roof and a fitted door leads to the ancillary areas of the pharmacy. 3D Architectural Visualization by Georgina Zacharaki
PH Travel Photography Blog Two great passions were connected to this blog, travel and photography. Every destination offered as a large field of photographic exploration. Photos sometimes focus on nature, sometimes in architecture or on their interrelationship. *No filters or crop tools were used in any photo* lamdadot.tumblr.com
“As a child I remember me browsing the photo albums of my parents and traveling with my mind in those places. Didn’t take long to grow up a bit and make my own small and later bigger journeys. From the age of nine I had a camera to accompany me on my travel adventures. After the unfortunate loss of two cameras in Sydney Australia in the summer of 2008, it came into my hands, a few months later, a Canon Powershot. With this camera I travel from our first joint trip to Barcelona till today. The story of my blog begins with this trip and since then has been enriched with many destinations around Greece and abroad. In all destinations I turned my lens in any direction to find and isolate details, highlight repetitions, emphasize symmetries play with shapes, colors and perspective.”
Gender and sex. The doubting of their identification and the liquidity in their interrelation. The body as a participant in an internal psychological struggle between the personal and social expectations. The quest for an identity whose uniqueness confronts all constructed social and cultural standards.
INS
EMF - Ego Masculine Feminine Installation / Digital Photography
This installation takes advantage of the use of light and the transparency of the printed paper. The three pictures that were used were standing hanging with transparent thin fishing line in the centre or the exhibition room. Some simple led lights were focused on the pictures bringing out an ambient light that was spread through the transparent paper making it look like self illuminating. The back two pictures were both a combination of two similar photos making an effect as by walking around the installation you could see only one or both the photos, depending on which side you where standing. The exhibition was only open after sunset so to preserve darkness around the installation. Photography by Kleitia Kokalari
ID - FD House 1 Interior and furniture design at a house in the town of Tinos island
ID - GD - SW LAURUS hotel study for converting the Ursulines School of Tinos island into a hotel / cultural center -Graduation ThesisInspiration was taken by the Ursulines’ Coat of Arms and the studends’ sign. Emfasis was given to URSULA-LAURUS (anagram) inscription and the Ursa Minor (Ursula) constellation. The URSULA-LAURUS dipole became the base of the project representing the passing from the religious past of the building (Ursula) to the new uses of it (Laurus). Both Ursa Minor constellation and laurel plant (Laurus Nobilis) used in many applications.
FD Participation to Athens Bench Mark competiotion Athens Bench Mark was a global online industrial design competition about re-designing Athens’ benches. *A honorable mention was given to my partitipation by the name “slim”*
FD - SW Conseptual Furniture Design Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film PERSONA The two women who progressively are coming into conflict, just to discover that their personas are melding into one, converted to two seats. The women’s profiles are taking a third dimension to create space for seating. In the free vertical surfaces, covered with mirror, half of women’s face is added. When the two seats positioned side by side the two faces are merged into one.
AW Sketches / Pencil on paper
AW Creative expressions / Art experimentations Mixed materials kappadot.tumblr.com
CDs / 200*160
INS “Pigeons hate reflective or shiny objects� An installation expressing the feeling that sometimes we are (made of) what we hate.
AW Bouguer-Pop Cutout style experiments on William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s paintings
Wraping paper / 70*100
AW Absence A paper that was for a time wrapped on a plate, then separated by it and now left alone. Having it’s mark over it, paper’s form has changed permanently with no chance to return to his original form never again. A story about relations.
GD Flyer / Poster promoting kappadot.tumblr.com blog
Collage / 21*30
AW Human After All A collage series experimenting on abstract forms of human bodies. Been taken from advertisment pages of fashion magazines, all clothes and surroundings where cutted off as only the real human parts to be left (skin and hair). The remaining pieces where then putted in a white page and rearranged positions so as to form a new synthesis of movement.
Digital
AW Phoenix ‌is a mythical bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet. It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites. Both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. The Phoenix’s ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal. A digital work inspired by the legend of the Phoenix. The immortal life of the mythical bird is simply represented by a never-ending cycle scheme with three colors to represent the three life stages of the bird. Yellow for the life of the bird, Red as it burns in fire and Black as it turns into ashes.
AW the Black Swan ‌ is trying to be passionate and sensual. It seduces you with abstract forms of black color into white paper. It captivates your vision in your try to recognize familiar shapes. It is mysterious, scary, beautiful, evil and attractive in the same way. Acrylic on paper / 70*100
the White Swan ‌ is trying to be perfect. At first sight is just a white paper but schemes are visible depending on the viewers point of view. Originally is better visible in sunlight (where the white swan acts). Disvisibility of the white paint is also representing the suicide the color commits as it tries to be as perfect as the perfect white paper. Acrylic on paper / 70*100
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