About me & what I do
Hello and Welcome
I am George Leventidis, a designer
& photographer and this is my virtual gallery.
It consists both of personal projects and professional work which I consider a labor of love about visual arts.
Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece.
I felt my first sparks of creativity and problem-solving at an early age.
During the past 10+ years, I started developing my designing and later, my photography skills.
Currently I’m involved with design and photography, both personally and professionally.
Thoughts on generative a.i
I am a creator, not a prompter.
I despise generative a.i with passion. It’s borderline unethical and all it managed to achieve so far is to make our creative work look easy.
I refrain from using generative a.i in my work.
Remember, there is no value in a.i slop.
This website is best experienced on a PC.
Design
is a generic and broad term,
but I touched many aspects of it, like:
logo-design, iconography, typography,
3D {hard-surface modeling / lighting / keyframe animation}, poster / banner design, ad-flyer / catalogues, t-shirt designs, photo-montage, CAD, printing/production, painting / illustrations, infographics
a bit of architectural design AND this site from scratch, using Elementor WordPress.
The OTE Tower of Thessaloniki,
a wireframe artwork I did on Illustrator.
Minimal, condensed, structured and flat-illustrated -I think describe my work accurately.
The key takeaway is that Vector graphics and High-poly 3D modeling are my strong cards.
An ETA 2824-2 mechanical watch movement
(caliber only) wireframe rendition I did on blender.
My new favourite Z6,
paired with my 24mm prime.
Shot with a Canon Powershot G10.
Photography
I was initially drawn to photography by the equipment…
As someone with a strong interest in mechanisms and tangible technology, I was “captured” by the mechanics of the apparatus, so I used to use photography as an excuse to fiddle around with cameras lying around my parents’ home. Later I became increasingly interested with the art and later yet I got involved with product photography, so then I started considering myself a professional of the medium.
Nowadays I use an array of film and digital cameras. I enjoy shooting portraits and architecture.
Since I love shooting film and the “film look“,
I try to replicate its aesthetics -loosely- on my personal digital work.
That means that I usually spend hours tweaking my raws on Lightroom and Photoshop, after the shoot!
My trusty Praktica PLC3, pictured with my favourite Zeiss 50mm prime & a UV.
Shot again with a Canon Powershot G10.
Regarding film, I mostly shoot with a manual-winding 135 film camera, on high ASA film stocks.
Do It Yourself
(D.I.Y) is another passion
that posseses me.
Over the years I crafted and modified a variety of simple furniture / lighting appliences and decorative ornaments, all with the goal to improve aesthetics and functionality of my home spaces.
An example of said DIY projects, which I think effectively summarizes the essence, is this floodlight.
I made it by using 3 elliptic, highly reflective “IKEA Blanda Blank” bowls, a lighting tripod and a few other custom-made parts.
One of them is a photograph,
the other one is a 3D render (Blender).
Can you tell them apart?
(Hover over to cheat!)
A 3D render, modeled after a low-res image of a serving tray. Made for the Company’s 2021 product catalogue.
Corporate work
samples can be downloaded here.
These are excerts from flyers & catalogue that I worked on, at my current occupation.
Like with this website, every piece of graphic displayed in that .pdf is created by me (including the company’s logo, info tables and descriptions).
All pictures were taken by me using a Canon EOS 700D paired with an 18-55mm kit lens and a softbox with basic 3-point lighting, all within the company’s premises.
There are also a few pictures with a “3D” badge on the side. These are, you guessed it, 3D renders, which I modeled in a time shortage using Blender and Photoshop -for additional textures.
My daily drivers:
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Blender
Lightroom
Corel
AutoCAD