http://work.chrisgovias.com Chris Govias, Visual Designer Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:40:19 +0000 http://work.chrisgovias.com en http://work.chrisgovias.com/Sissy-Drink-Drunk-Night http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Sissy-Drink-Drunk-Night Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:40:19 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 3075412 A friend's night of fruity blender drinks turned out to be a great excuse for some custom lettering. <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/3075412/mwood-drinks.jpg" width="670" height="890" width_o="670" height_o="890" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/3075412/mwood-drinks_o.jpg" data-mid="15693357" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/Reevoo-Magazine http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Reevoo-Magazine Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:19:08 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 1737984 As a 48 hour hack challenge, a small team of developers and I addressed the idea of presenting blog content in a more interesting and engaging manner. To do this, we created a Ruby on Rails apps that made extensive use of the Google Web Fonts directory (brand new at the time) and the latest innovations in HTML5 and CSS3. The result is a standards-compliant, gorgeous editorial design that's optimised for mobile devices. Visit it online <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_contents.jpg" width="670" height="525" width_o="670" height_o="525" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_contents_o.jpg" data-mid="11570488" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_gaga.jpg" width="670" height="525" width_o="670" height_o="525" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_gaga_o.jpg" data-mid="11570494" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_no-noise.jpg" width="670" height="525" width_o="670" height_o="525" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_no-noise_o.jpg" data-mid="11570498" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_headphones.jpg" width="670" height="525" width_o="670" height_o="525" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_headphones_o.jpg" data-mid="11570496" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_end.jpg" width="670" height="525" width_o="670" height_o="525" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737984/reevoo-mag_end_o.jpg" data-mid="15648866" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/The-Hype-Machine-2009 http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/The-Hype-Machine-2009 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:35:01 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 244992 I was asked to contribute an illustration to the Hype Machine's Annual Zeitgeist. With Camera Obscura as my chosen artist, I sketched out a couple of different ideas and ended up creating some lettering that played off of the pulp magazine/horror sound of their name. Read about the process here. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/244992/camera_obscura.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/244992/camera_obscura_o.jpg" data-mid="1044455" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/The-Hype-Machine-2010 http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/The-Hype-Machine-2010 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:33:40 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 1742691 More lettering for the Hype Machine's Zeitgeist. Avoiding the obvious connotations of the name was key for me, so I created a piece whose aesthetic paid homage to the Rat Pack, the Vegas of days-gone-by, cocktail lounges and luxury (if not class and elegance). Read about the process here. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1742691/hypemachine_new-pornographers.jpeg" width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1742691/hypemachine_new-pornographers_o.jpeg" data-mid="8573925" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/Just-Buy-This-One-to-Survive http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Just-Buy-This-One-to-Survive Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:06:46 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 1737935 In a world overrun by the undead, you don't have time to buy inferior products and choice paradox is tantamount to a death sentence. Built with the Reevoo team, we created this version … well, because the internets likes zombies (and because we were throwing a press event and wanted it to have a bit of our own particular style). Visit it online <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_home.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_home_o.jpg" data-mid="8572715" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_weapon.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_weapon_o.jpg" data-mid="8572717" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_walkie-talkie.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_walkie-talkie_o.jpg" data-mid="8572721" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_room-service.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737935/jbto-zombies_room-service_o.jpg" data-mid="8572720" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/Get-a-Real-Job http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Get-a-Real-Job Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:22:57 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 9480 Campaign for Ontario Colleges to convince young people to attend college. The research indicated that the primary reason young people would attend college would be to get "a real job". With this in mind, I conceptualised four boring, mundane and fictitious fake jobs to contrast with eight real college-graduate jobs. Visit online <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_home.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_home_o.jpg" data-mid="8559405" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_fakejobs.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_fakejobs_o.jpg" data-mid="8559407" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_info.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_info_o.jpg" data-mid="8559409" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_realjobs.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob_realjobs_o.jpg" data-mid="8559411" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob02_portaits01.jpg" width="670" height="513" width_o="670" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob02_portaits01_o.jpg" data-mid="46999" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob02_portaits2.jpg" width="670" height="513" width_o="670" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/9480/realjob02_portaits2_o.jpg" data-mid="47000" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/Just-Buy-This-One http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Just-Buy-This-One Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:01:11 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 1737917 Just Buy This One helps people get over choice paralysis (see The Paradox of Choice) and make simple decisions to buy only the best stuff. Built with the Reevoo team in a week, it's packed with easter eggs and probably the only website out there that has a Javascript Physics engine. Some quick stats: • front page of Hackernews for 36 hours • lovely "hockey stick" graph with a 13k visitor increase • press coverage on Econsultancy, Marketing and 100s of blogs Visit it online <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_home.jpg" width="670" height="954" width_o="670" height_o="954" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_home_o.jpg" data-mid="8557818" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_toaster.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_toaster_o.jpg" data-mid="8557829" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_room-service.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_room-service_o.jpg" data-mid="8557828" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_press.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737917/jbto_press_o.jpg" data-mid="8557826" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/Spacelog http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Spacelog Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:02:41 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 1737905 Spacelog brings NASA transcripts to the web in a searchable, linkable format. Built at a /dev/fort, I collaborated with designers Hannah Donovan and Gavin O'Carroll. Some quick stats: • instant hit on the web • 34K visits in the first day • online and offline press, including the Huffington Post, BoingBoing, NewScientist and the Atlantic Visit it online <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_home.jpg" width="670" height="777" width_o="670" height_o="777" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_home_o.jpg" data-mid="8556677" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_home.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_home_o.jpg" data-mid="8556891" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_phases-5.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_phases-5_o.jpg" data-mid="8556893" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_astronauts.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_astronauts_o.jpg" data-mid="8556886" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_search.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_search_o.jpg" data-mid="8556895" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_transcript.png" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_transcript_o.png" data-mid="8557002" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_selected.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/1737905/spacelog_apollo11_selected_o.jpg" data-mid="8556897" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/Mr-Bingo-site http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Mr-Bingo-site Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:00:07 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 8967 Mr. Bingo is different kind of affiliates site. It rejects the garish aesthetic that defines other online bingo sites and is an attractive, fully SEO-optimised, usable site with its own charm and lovable cartoon gentleman. Offline. :( <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_home.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_home_o.jpg" data-mid="8557499" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_tips.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_tips_o.jpg" data-mid="8557506" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_news.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_news_o.jpg" data-mid="8557501" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_reviews.jpg" width="670" height="634" width_o="670" height_o="634" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/8967/mrbingo_reviews_o.jpg" data-mid="8557505" border="0" align="left"/> http://work.chrisgovias.com/Last-fm-Newspaper http://work.chrisgovias.com/following/work.chrisgovias.com/Last-fm-Newspaper Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:57:21 +0000 Chris Govias, Visual Designer 245100 I designed a custom newspaper for Last.fm to showcase their Best of 2009 feature. All of the content is based on their extensive data which allowed for some beautiful visualisations (see the second image). The entire piece was conceptualised and designed in four and a half days, something which would not have been possibly without the excellent Last.fm team and their amazing data visualisation engineers. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-cover.jpg" width="670" height="460" width_o="670" height_o="460" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-cover_o.jpg" data-mid="15692750" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-1.jpg" width="670" height="460" width_o="670" height_o="460" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-1_o.jpg" data-mid="15692728" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-2.jpg" width="670" height="460" width_o="670" height_o="460" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-2_o.jpg" data-mid="15692729" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-3.jpg" width="670" height="460" width_o="670" height_o="460" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/328/245100/lastfm-newspaper-3_o.jpg" data-mid="15692731" border="0" align="left"/> See it interactively: