Christoforos Tavoularis

Digital invitation, Trans Reading Group, 2007

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Logo design, 2007

3 limited edition shopping bags, Huppa store, 2007

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limited edition 7” single picture disc, Le Strole, 2008

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Gatefold CD design, Studio 64 compilation, 2008

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Book cover and layout, portfolio for photographer Lila Zotou, Utrecht, 2007

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Metabook no5 final materialization, Goldsmiths college, 2006

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Metabook, "S.Malarme - One toss of the dice never will abolish chance, 1897", final materialization, Goldsmiths College, 2006

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The final piece of this project is the poem “ONE TOSS OF THE DICE WILL NEVER ABOLISH CHANCE” by Stephan Mallarmé.
This is an effort to situate an English translation of Mallarmé’s swan song within a book structure, been designed for this particular poem.
A three dimensional structure where its physicality and spatial organization of the text are interacting inextricably, capturing the existential notions articulated within and throughout the poem.

This is an endeavour in providing the readers with the possibility to experience Mallarmé’s poem differently, by integrating physical action in their reading process using more than one of their sense organs, beyond the visual scrutinizing of the collection of types printed on surfaces of paper; an action that results in the metamorphosis of the book-poem, responsible for giving the reader a sense of intimacy and the enjoyment of creation.

cube layout

original poem, typographical study

Mockup for Metabook no5

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Mockup for Metabook no4

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Metabook no2, "Ulises Carrion - The new art of making books,1970" 2006

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“To understand something, is to understand the structure of which it is a part and/or the elements forming the structure that that something is.” Ulises Carion

In order to read this book, one has to fold and unfold its every single page, and start making combinations and juxtapositions between those pages or blocs to collate and reveal the quotes that are hidden or incomprehensible.

The perpetual manipulation of its structure, challenges the user’s experience. He/She has to treat the book as a living organism that is constantly transforming and every transformation is generating new ideas and new meanings. Furthermore this structure produces a t-mesis phenomenon capable of maintaining the interest of its user, on the premise that he/she has to explore every possibility of its structure.

Metabook as a useful object no2, book – vase, 2006

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Metabook as a useful object, recipe book – kitchen chandelier, 2006

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Metabook is an enhanced type of processor; a new processor much more capable of maintaining the user’s interest, by enforcing him/her to proceed with an interaction of an alternative nature.

Metabook no1, "R.Dawkin - The selfish gene "1976", 2006

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Metabook the new processor, 3rd term project, Goldsmiths university 2006

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Metabook no1, ideation and final materialization, “ R.Dawkin – The selfish gene, 1976”, 2006

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This project is aiming to explore the notion of what a book is. Its intention is to treat the book as a totality, not just as the medium for the text to be situated in.
It is trying to investigate the possibility for the book to be transformed into a new type of processor being considered and designed as an entity, where all the elements that structure it are equally important; and corporate to constitute and articulate its protogenic intention -the creators’ intention-.
Books should be regarded as living entities, as “memeplexes”. The ideas and the theories embosomed within a book, propagate through an assimilative process which is unique for every reader.
On that premise the book itself should be a unique object (tool) for every reader, an object flexible to transform and adapt in every reader’s hands and needs (demands).
The reader has to direct the book in order to gain its essence and establish the appropriate reading mode for him or her through an action of construction as well as deconstruction of the book’s physicality. A reading mode more creative than the linear one dictated by the common book’s morphological and designing inertia. A reading rhythm that constantly changes, quickens, or slows down.

Poster no5,CONSUMING ZOMBIES, commodity fetishism series, 2006

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Poster no2, RECYCLE, ecology series 2006

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Billboard visualization

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Poster no1, SALES, commodity fetishism series 2006

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Billboard visualization

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Visual teleportation, 2nd term project, Goldsmiths University, 2006

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The intention was to discover alternative methods of representing multiple layers within 2-dimensional stationary surfaces, and use those layers to achieve notional teleportation from one ideation to another.
The technique derived from the study of the principles stereogram are using to generate a 3D illusionary effect and particular the scintillating grid.
The first layer of each poster when viewed from a distance gives the delusion that a text is written on the surface. The size of the text in relation to the size of the image produces a relative distance illusion and generates a depth perspective.
According to distance between the display and the viewer, the messages printed on the billboard surface could be experienced in 3 different ways, as two separate layers and as a combination.
Using this technique one can increase the value of the advertising billboard without any extra cost, since he can combine multiple layers into one.
Instructions for viewing:
Please distance yourself from the monitor in order to read the message and move towards thescreen to observe the visual phenomenon, or vice versa.

Carnivalization of space project, Goldsmith University 2006

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This project has a double aim. Fist, to reconstruct ephemerally Omonia square in Athens, and second, to facilitate through the use of a cultural guide the familiarization of the passerby’s with the marginalized area and the minorities who maintain their cultural and social communities and associations near by.
This project is an endeavour to create a situation that will feed the passerby’s with information and make them experience through a “derive”, the cultural differences but also the common homology that lies underneath.
Every page of this cultural guide, which illustrates a part of that area, is printed with a special perfume embedded ink that generates a unique smell when been pressed.
According to Freud the most effective way to assimilate new information is through effortful or elaborative processing, which involves thinking about information in a meaningful way and associating it with existing information in long-time memory. Smell is one of our senses with the highest retrieval power, as it is directly connected to our childhood.
After this subconscious procedure the user should be stimulated to write down on the guide, how she/he experiences the environment she/he is strolling in and try to discover through this process common element between hers/his own background and the other cultural and social groups.
After using and filling up the leaflet one can cut off its recto side and use it as a postcard and hang the other side onto the furniture’s that are placed in Omonia square.
By the end of the project this huge collage of thoughts, memories, information and experiences of people who engaged with this area will transfigure the square into a vital space of communication and discourse.

Catalogue design for Goldsmiths MA in design degree show, Deptford design festival 2006