NATALIE MAVROTA

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This is a first preview of the book I designed and illustrated for the infamously cool geographic page: https://lnkd.in/g4rBeS6E Published by Dioptra Publishing. It is a book guiding clueless people, like me, around the world through really cool geography based stories. It gives answers to frequently asked questions and misunderstandings about the world and what's on it! I had so much fun creating this book and learned so many things, I really am very proud about this project. You can have a look on some more of the illustrations here: https://lnkd.in/gwKzd4qr More to come soon!

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Some cards/ posters inspired by the Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna.

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My Master’s final project research book. This publication showcases the full research behind the final project, "Over that mountain". Some of its contents are, essays on the issues of folk heritage from epirus, on oubapo and experimentations with comics and my own design- illustration process for the final project. If interested for more, you can download the pdf version here: www.overthatmountain.com

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Over that mountain Here are some views of my final project for my master's @vakalocollege. It's an experimental combinatory comic of folk songs from Epirus, both in print and online and you can check it out here: www.overthatmountain.com

On the site you can interact with the strips, see a video of the printed edition and have a look at the pdf of the research book. 

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Visual Notes An 80 pages publication with some of the visual notes - drawings, I created so far for my masters' research. Here you can see some of the drawing experimentations of folkloric elements intertwined with characters and naturalistic forms that are included in the “Visual Notes”. 

Some of these drawings are going to be part of my masters' final project and some are going to live indepented lives, or transformed into something else. Stay tuned and check some more here.

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The cover and some illustrations of my final project. You can see all of the greek folk stories I illustrated here, if you know greek, you can read them too!

Some more information about the project: 

It depicts 26 Greek folktales from the works of folklorist Nikolaos Politis. It is my final project at the University of West Attica in the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication. The reason I focused on folk stories from the medieval times and not ancient Greek myths, is that these stories are often looked down. It saddens me to think that when the lighthouse keepers, this generation’s grandmas are gone, these stories will be forgotten and kept in books in inaccessible university libraries and archives. I felt like these whimsical stories could have a chance again if I shared the inspiration they gave me through an illustrated book. 

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My poster for the screening of “Morrer como um Homem” in cineclube do porto.

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Poster for Cineclube do Porto.

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Poster for Cineclube do Porto.

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Poster for Cineclube do Porto.

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Heritage

My illustrations that were selected for the finalists exhibition for the illustration Biennale in Amarante with the theme Heritage. 

The first illustration is about the discovery of the world heritage and history by younger generations.

The second illustration is about the idea that heritage is a seed planted, that has the need to be nurtured to flourish. 

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Distant moons from the intergalactic princess

An imaginary album of a made up band. Plus a t-shirt for the fans.

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Posters I did for Cine club do Porto. 

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Anapama Tselendata Residency

Anapama is a traditional, beautiful house in Tselendata, Kefalonia Island. 

The word “Anapama”, has its origin to Anapamos, a word coming from the local Kefalonian dialect that means time for rest and relaxation, attributes that reflect the character of the house. 

In Anapama you can live the greek summer in Kefalonia and this is what is described through the color palet of the identity. Τhe warm sun, the cool sea and the green island. 

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My illustrated sardine awarded at Festas de Lisboa 2016!

“There is no celebration without flowers. There is no celebration without freedom. So here it is, the Sardine as a carnation bouquet.”

My sardine was one of the 5 winners of the contest. It was awarded among 8897 submissions from 70 countries.

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Chaos, Gaia, Eros

My submission for the 6th issue of Archive Collective Magazine with the theme origins.

In Hesiod’s Theogony everything started with three entities; Chaos, Gaia and Eros. With these illustrations I try to depict these three entities and therefore the origins of the world.

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Hilda’s Party

This project was realized for the video class in Faculty of fine arts of Porto under the supervision of Maile Colbert. For the creation of this video, it was used already existing footage from the “Internet Archive”. With this found footage project I wanted to address to the expression of woman’s desire.

While women are very often, if not always, the object of desire their own desires are a taboo. These desires are seldom portrayed, but frequently looked down upon and criticized. Having the writtings of Laura Mulvey about the “male gaze” in mind, I wanted to adress to the concept of men as watchers and women as watched and the guilt women have when they express their desires.