Tegea the Evergreen |
client | Κοινωφελές 'Ιδρυμα Μιχαήλ Ν. Στασινόπουλος - Βιοχάλκο |
| The two-volume historical work of Georgia Dalkos Tegea the Evergreen, was published by the Michael N. Stasinopoulos – Viochalko Public Benefit Foundation in 2022. It is an emblematic reference work on the history of Tegea. The publication was an ambitious and demanding project that was running for almost a decade.
I had the privilege to participate from the first steps of designing and forming the project Tegea the Evergreen. I undertook the general and editorial direction, typography and layout design, as well as the curation, research and documentation of the pictorial and archival material. For the covers of the two volumes I chose as a vignette an enviable unknown symbol for Tegea that I found on a silver coin of ancient Tegea. Three greek epsilons (E) form the letter tau (T) denoting the word TEGEA. How inspired and daring was the engraver of this ancient coin when he decided to symbolize Tegea by visually rendering the initial letter tau by adding a third epsilon and reversing the second – without the alpha! |
year | 2022 |
| category | Editions | |
| tags | art & culture editorial design featured history typography |
Ασημένιο νόμισμα της Τεγέας των αρχών του 4ου π.Χ. αιώνα.
Στην κύρια όψη απεικονίζεται γοργόνειο. Η άλλη όψη
φέρει σύμπλεγμα τριών Ε που σχηματίζουν
το γράμμα Τ δηλώνοντας τη λέξη ΤΕΓΕΑ.
