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chara1veniou
χαρά /xaˈra/ noun, Greek — joy.
And, mostly, how I like to work.
Brand identityPackagingDigital designEnvironmental graphics
I find the one detail that makes a brand feel like itself — and then I stay until it's made.
Eight years of graphic design and art direction in Athens — concept to press check. I work across identity, packaging, digital and environmental graphics, and I stay with a project until it is made: dielines, artwork, and the press check at the end.
Most recently at A&M Architects, before that art director at Sleed and packaging designer at Coco-Mat. A Bronze Effie along the way, and Gold at the Interiors Awards.
More about me →Selected work25 projects · 2015 – 2026
Illustration · EditorialHow Many Cuckoos for Spring?Case study →Pitsilos Publications2024An abstract poem translated into pure image, with no words anywhere in the book, which has since grown into a festival of its own.
Packaging · LabelTeran Liquor LabelCase study →Teran Liquor · Slovenia2015 – 16A liquor label with real cuts through the paper, made to look like the dry, cracked ground its grapes grow in.
Environmental graphicsClarksons Offices AthensCase study →Clarksons · A&M Architects2024 – 25The wave in the Clarksons logo, used to draw a whole floor.
Packaging · DigitalZealots of NatureCase study →Coco-Mat2020 – 21A vegan cosmetics line built around the avocado, with two products that went to shelf and are still selling.
Stephenson Harwood OfficesCase study →Stephenson Harwood · A&M Architects2025 – 26Three floors I only ever walked through in 3D, and everything that now helps people feel at home in them.
Branding · Environmental · Illustration · DigitalA&M Annual Conference 2025Case study →A&M Architects2025The identity for A&M Architects' annual conference, held at Margi Farm in June 2025. It uses lemons, olive leaves and cobalt blue, and runs from the welcome board to the screens.
Illustration · EditorialThe Chained ElephantCase study →Degree project · TEI of Athens2016 – 17Jorge Bucay's chained elephant, drawn by hand and sewn by hand into ten copies, one of which is now his.
Digital · BrandingSNFCC ReadingsCase study →SNF Cultural Center2019 – 20Eleven Greek literary works, read aloud by well-known actors, and an identity built for each one of them.
Packaging · LabelWine LabelCase study →LONI DBS (Bellini & Friends) · Ljubljana2016A red table wine label made from the one thing red wine always leaves behind. It never reached the bottle.
Mercuria OfficesCase study →Mercuria · Minerva · MM Marine · A&M Architects2024 – 25My very first project at A&M: light moving on water, drawn onto the glass of a shipping company's offices.There Is NowCase study →A&M Architects · annual campaign 20262025 – 26A calendar of three hundred and sixty-five cards, each one designed by hand, for a campaign about being here now.
Digital · BrandingBookvoiceCase study →Bookvoice · via Sleed2021 – 22An audiobook service launched in one month by one person, which came back with an Effie.RizesCase study →Rizes · F&B at Ancient Olympia2024One letterform that is a column, a torch and a root at the same time. It got me the job.
EditorialAmCham Slovenia YearbookCase study →AmCham Slovenia2015 – 16A chamber of commerce yearbook, hundreds of pages of it, with LOVE hidden inside the country's name on the cover.
BrandingCeramic StudioCase study →PotterRou · ceramic studio2024A pottery studio named after the potter herself, with a whole brand system she's still working under today.
Digital · AdvertisingFrezyderm Cinema CampaignCase study →Frezyderm · via Sleed2023A children’s sun care campaign I picked up halfway through, and then watched play in open-air cinemas two summers running.
Digital · AdvertisingCOCO-MAT Social & AwarenessCase study →COCO-MAT · in-house2020 – 21A leaflet nobody was using, turned into the first animation the brand's channels had ever had.
EditorialKawacom Tea CatalogueCase study →Kawacom · via Art in Red Design n' Print2018A printed tea catalogue, where the whole job was clarity and nothing else.
Digital · MotionSNFCC Jazz ChroniclesCase study →SNF Cultural Center2020Jazz Chronicles moved onto a phone screen in lockdown, so I took the posters apart and taught them to dance to the music.
Digital · AdvertisingSleed In-House SocialCase study →Sleed · in-house2021 – 23Three years of posts for the agency's own feed, including the one I am fondest of.
Digital Campaigns at SleedCase study →Sleed · Nuxe, Frezyderm, Amgen, Rabbit, Thanopoulos2021 – 23From 2021 to 2023 at Sleed: social campaigns, films and pitches for five brands, gathered in one place.
BrandingVolNepalCase study →VolNepal · non-profit, Kathmandu2020Two marks for a Nepali non-profit, drawn from the other side of the world during the second Covid wave. Still their logo today.
Branding · MarksLogofolioCase study →Various2017 – 24Marks drawn across sectors — the shortest way to see how I think.
Illustration · EditorialHallucinationCase study →Personal project2017A sixteen-page comic, written and drawn from scratch — one night on the line between sleep and waking.
Early Work · Ljubljana and LimaCase study →Internship and volunteer work · Slovenia and Peru2015 – 17Six identities from my first years in Ljubljana and Lima, made while I was still learning, and very happy to be.Award
Bronze · Effie Awards
2022 · Low Budgets
Bookvoice campaign · Sleed
Bookvoice campaign · Sleed
Award
Gold · Interiors Awards
2026 · Large Workspace
Clarksons Offices Athens · A&M Architects
Clarksons Offices Athens · A&M Architects
Both team awards
Sole graphic designer on each
Identity, artwork and production files — mine on both projects.