Chara VeniouBrand & Packaging Designer
How Many Cuckoos for Spring?
Illustration · Editorial · 2024
How Many Cuckoos for Spring?
An abstract poem translated into pure image, with no words anywhere in the book, which has since grown into a festival of its own.
Case study
Teran Liquor Label
Packaging · Label · 2015 – 16
Teran Liquor Label
A liquor label with real cuts through the paper, made to look like the dry, cracked ground its grapes grow in.
Case study
Clarksons Offices Athens
Environmental graphics · 2024 – 25
Clarksons Offices Athens
The wave in the Clarksons logo, used to draw a whole floor.
Case study
Zealots of Nature
Packaging · Digital · 2020 – 21
Zealots of Nature
A vegan cosmetics line built around the avocado, with two products that went to shelf and are still selling.
Case study
A&M Annual Conference 2025
Branding · Environmental · Illustration · Digital · 2025
A&M Annual Conference 2025
The 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.
Case study
The Chained Elephant
Illustration · Editorial · 2016 – 17
The Chained Elephant
Jorge Bucay's chained elephant, drawn by hand and sewn by hand into ten copies, one of which is now his.
Case study
SNFCC Readings
Digital · Branding · 2019 – 20
SNFCC Readings
Eleven Greek literary works, read aloud by well-known actors, and an identity built for each one of them.
Case study
Wine Label
Packaging · Label · 2016
Wine Label
A red table wine label made from the one thing red wine always leaves behind. It never reached the bottle.
Case study
Ceramic Studio
Branding · 2024
Ceramic Studio
A pottery studio named after the potter herself, with a whole brand system she's still working under today.
Case study
01 / 09
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
How Many Cuckoos for Spring?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.Teran Liquor LabelPackaging · 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.Clarksons Offices AthensEnvironmental graphicsClarksons Offices AthensCase study Clarksons · A&M Architects2024 – 25The wave in the Clarksons logo, used to draw a whole floor.Zealots of NaturePackaging · 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 OfficesStephenson 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.A&M Annual Conference 2025Branding · 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.The Chained ElephantIllustration · 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.SNFCC ReadingsDigital · 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.Wine LabelPackaging · 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 OfficesMercuria 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.BookvoiceDigital · 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.AmCham Slovenia YearbookEditorialAmCham 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.Ceramic StudioBrandingCeramic StudioCase study PotterRou · ceramic studio2024A pottery studio named after the potter herself, with a whole brand system she's still working under today.Frezyderm Cinema CampaignDigital · 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.COCO-MAT Social & AwarenessDigital · 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.Kawacom Tea CatalogueEditorialKawacom Tea CatalogueCase study Kawacom · via Art in Red Design n' Print2018A printed tea catalogue, where the whole job was clarity and nothing else.SNFCC Jazz ChroniclesDigital · 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.Sleed In-House SocialDigital · 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 SleedDigital 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.VolNepalBrandingVolNepalCase 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.LogofolioBranding · MarksLogofolioCase study Various2017 – 24Marks drawn across sectors — the shortest way to see how I think.HallucinationIllustration · 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 LimaEarly 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
Award
Gold · Interiors Awards
2026 · Large Workspace
Clarksons Offices Athens · A&M Architects
Both team awards
Sole graphic designer on each
Identity, artwork and production files — mine on both projects.