Petros Afshar Final Paper
Katie Bone
Mrs. Rifkin
Graphic Design 1
8 December 2014
Petros Afshar
Petros Afshar is a London-based graphic designer with a wide variety of clients, including Adidas and Star Wars. He has a passion for typography along with penguins, cooking, and gardening. In his spare time he also works with his freelance clients and does PR work for social events. He considers his biggest risk in life to be dropping out of academia to pursue a career as a graphic designer, and it has certainly paid off. He specializes in typography, print design, logos, and illustrations.
Petros Afshar is known for his distinctive use of lines and space to create something unexpected. His work feels precisely calculated from the use of geometry and strictly placed abstract forms. It’s almost as if he has taken the subject, deconstructed it to its simplest geometric form, and carefully placed it back together. This creates a very modern, clean aesthetic with an unmistakable playfulness.
When viewing his work called Blueheron, you see the shape of a bird created by using simple shapes, lines and letters. There is no direct outline of the silhouette of the bird, as the shapes, lines, and various letters have been placed precisely to create the blue heron. Even with the pops of pink on the black background, the blue is still visually dominant. This conveys the message of the type of bird without making the shapes all obviously blue. A similar theme is present in Dragonfly, but instead of only creating the shape of the bird, he placed a variety of shapes to visually draw your eye into the shape of the dragonfly. This piece is also meticulous, with perfect symmetry on both sides of the dragonfly. There is no shading in both of these pieces, as with the rest of his work. More focus is placed on flat shapes that are bold, clean, and modern. In the design Free Cycle, instead of using simple shapes to create one obvious object such as the dragonfly or blue heron, he uses a variety of actual
Mrs. Rifkin
Graphic Design 1
8 December 2014
Petros Afshar
Petros Afshar is a London-based graphic designer with a wide variety of clients, including Adidas and Star Wars. He has a passion for typography along with penguins, cooking, and gardening. In his spare time he also works with his freelance clients and does PR work for social events. He considers his biggest risk in life to be dropping out of academia to pursue a career as a graphic designer, and it has certainly paid off. He specializes in typography, print design, logos, and illustrations.
Petros Afshar is known for his distinctive use of lines and space to create something unexpected. His work feels precisely calculated from the use of geometry and strictly placed abstract forms. It’s almost as if he has taken the subject, deconstructed it to its simplest geometric form, and carefully placed it back together. This creates a very modern, clean aesthetic with an unmistakable playfulness.
When viewing his work called Blueheron, you see the shape of a bird created by using simple shapes, lines and letters. There is no direct outline of the silhouette of the bird, as the shapes, lines, and various letters have been placed precisely to create the blue heron. Even with the pops of pink on the black background, the blue is still visually dominant. This conveys the message of the type of bird without making the shapes all obviously blue. A similar theme is present in Dragonfly, but instead of only creating the shape of the bird, he placed a variety of shapes to visually draw your eye into the shape of the dragonfly. This piece is also meticulous, with perfect symmetry on both sides of the dragonfly. There is no shading in both of these pieces, as with the rest of his work. More focus is placed on flat shapes that are bold, clean, and modern. In the design Free Cycle, instead of using simple shapes to create one obvious object such as the dragonfly or blue heron, he uses a variety of actual