Maria Papaefstathiou aka It’s Just Me is a visual designer and blogger. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on poster design and particularly on social poster design and portrait design. Her main poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc. This is an ongoing project.
“I believe that design is a powerful tool that we designers can use to spark enthusiasm, change mindsets and bring positive actions to our world and our culture”.
She was awarded and invited to participate in and exhibited Internationally her posters in group exhibitions and has been a juror to several international Poster Competitions.
Maria is the founder and editor of the Graphic Art News blog since 2010 where she carefully curateshigh-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool.
On December 2011, she partnered the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee and they launched the Intl. Reggae Poster Contest which she runs untill today,
In 2018 she curated the exhibition "1st Medical Cannabis Intl. Invitational Poster Exhibition for which she invited 50 designers from 27 countries. The exhibition took place in Athens, Greece and the art isstill available for more exhibitions.
Links:
Portfolio: www.itsjustme.net • IRPC: www.reggaepostercontest.com • Blog: www.graphicart-news.com
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