(UncommonPartners-creativeMESS)
Hello! Upmess is a graphic & web creative studio. It’s the union of two uncommon partners, back in 2007, —Virginia Barakou and Thanasis Tentolouris— and a gathering of co-workers across different disciplines such as illustration, photography, conceptual thinking, creative writing, printing, web development.
Upmess helps brands to get into their existence through design.
Teams matter
Design skills are not as difficult to find as creative minds. Openness, new perspectives, boldness, collaboration, and perpetual study of human nature are elements that unite us all, and make everybody 🙂!
We believe in teams. We enjoy teaming up with our design partners as much as with our clients. Teams are stronger. A trillion thank you and respect to all of our partners throughout all these years:
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- Centiva – Developers / Software
- Christos Karameros – Illustrator
- Dimitris Tampakiotis – Photographer
- Eleni Magkouta – Photographer
- Floulis – Photographers
- Giorgos Gotsis – Photographer
- Giorgos Siakavaras – Graphic designer
- Ioanna Iakovaki – Copywriter
- Ioannis Dodgoglou – Interior designer
- Joanna Jelly – Graphic designer
- John Bekos – Graphic designer
- Jone – Illustrator / Artist
- Katerina Xenou – Graphic designer
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- Klimis – Illustrator
- Konstantinos Vrantzas – Graphic designer
- Kotsifas – Illustrator
- Manolis Liolios – Developer @edl
- Maria & Galini Giannousi – Architects
- Melandros Ganas – Publisher
- Niki Chalkiadaki – Creative writer / Poet
- Raino – Illustrator
- Stellios Zikas – Interior designer
- Tasos Tzitzilonis – Graphic designer
- Tasos Zois – Interior designer
- Thanasis Koutsagias – Interior designer
- Vasia Tsiasioti – Architect
Distinctions / Exhibitions
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense”, said Frank Lloyd Wright.
Well, it seems that Lloyd’s quote affects us a lot: uncommon partners, uncommonly common thoughts, common things uncommonly used, commonly uncommon concepts used or thrown into bins.
A complete mess!
Anyway, here’s our distinctions up today.
Distinctions
- 2020 – Logolounge 12 – Publication – Kotouzas Bakery Logo (p. 169-5C)
- 2020 – Logolounge 12 – Publication – Magic Castle Entertainment Logo (p. 203-2C)
- 2020 – Logolounge 12 – Publication – Tsik2Tsik Nuts Logo (p. 90-4D)
- 2020 – Logolounge 12 – Publication – iRoots Logo (p. 101-5A)
- 2012 – European Design Awards – 16.1 Printed Self-Promotion – SkoupidoKit (Bronze)
Exhibitions
- 2019 – LA Comix festival – Exhibition – Larissa
- 2019 – Meet market – 19th Athens Technopolis Jazz festival
- 2018 – Tsitsani Museum – Kampisioi Dimiourgoi – ETK Publications
- 2018 – Meet market – Xmas at the Athens Conservatoire
- 2016 – Workshop Clothes & Upmess Line “Perfection is Boring”
Upmess loves simplicity and good storytelling. Α strong story can bear strong concepts from which clear symbols can be produced to create timeless brand identities. Simplicity is clearly allied to readability and distinction.
Our years of experience cover almost all the creative design and project management fields. Thus, we undertake design projects from conception to realization.
- Art Direction
- Project Management
- Design Strategy
- Content Development
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Web Design – Development
- Photography
- Print Production
- Environmental Design
- Product Design
- Branding
- Identity
- Corporate Design
- Naming & Creative Writing
- Packaging
- Publications
- Catalog Design
- Poster Design
- Large Scale Graphics
- Social Media Design
- E-catalogue Design & Dev
Together we grow!
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