Eleni Tsampra
Freelance Designer, Educator.
Athens, Greece
+30 6937017619
be.net/elenitsampra
Passionate in all forms of visual communication.
Work Experience
Freelance Designer
Designer, illustrator and Animator.
Freelance Designer, illustrator and Animator in a variety of media (Print, TV, Theatre).
Projects ranging from posters, information brochures, comic pages, illustrations, character designs, storyboards, animations and motion graphics for various departments and services (advertising, corporate, educational).
Clients: Greek National Opera, Museum of Cycladic Art, Thessaloniki Film Festival, AEK FC, Hellenic Olympic Properties, Bold Ogilvy, TBWA, BBDO, Leo Burnett, ABC Advertising, JNL Advertising, Looking Agency, Smartmagna Agency, Stefi Productions, Cinegram Productions, X-Rated Productions, Macmillan Publishing, Patakis Publishing, Psychogios Publishing, Kedros Publishing, Metohos Magazine.
Projects ranging from posters, information brochures, comic pages, illustrations, character designs, storyboards, animations and motion graphics for various departments and services (advertising, corporate, educational).
Clients: Greek National Opera, Museum of Cycladic Art, Thessaloniki Film Festival, AEK FC, Hellenic Olympic Properties, Bold Ogilvy, TBWA, BBDO, Leo Burnett, ABC Advertising, JNL Advertising, Looking Agency, Smartmagna Agency, Stefi Productions, Cinegram Productions, X-Rated Productions, Macmillan Publishing, Patakis Publishing, Psychogios Publishing, Kedros Publishing, Metohos Magazine.
2004
- Present
Greece
University Of West Attica
Laboratory Associate
Teaching Storyboard and Visual Narrative, Animation Principles and Techniques.
October 2017
- Present
Greece
Manchester Metropolitan University
Associate Lecturer
Course: Contextualising Practice.
The course intends to enhance students ‘visual literacy’ – in their visual practice and exploring ideas through writing. Understanding the way we encounter and understand images during our everyday life comes within a set of theories described as ‘visual culture’ and it draws from a wide variety of academic disciplines (for example psychoanalysis, anthropology, semiotics, etc.) to frame debates about the ways we construct meaning. (www.art.mmu.ac.uk/illustration)
The course intends to enhance students ‘visual literacy’ – in their visual practice and exploring ideas through writing. Understanding the way we encounter and understand images during our everyday life comes within a set of theories described as ‘visual culture’ and it draws from a wide variety of academic disciplines (for example psychoanalysis, anthropology, semiotics, etc.) to frame debates about the ways we construct meaning. (www.art.mmu.ac.uk/illustration)
2015
- Present
United Kingdom
AKTO
Tutor
Teaching Storyboard and Visual Narrative, Animation Principles and Techniques.
October 2013
- Present
Greece
University Of Sassari
Teaching staff, Erasmus Intensive Programme
InformAnimation is a Summer School organized within the Erasmus Intensive Programme, by the Alghero School of Architecture of the University of Sassari in collaboration with a consortium of European academic partners.
The project's driving idea is that the growing accessibility to platforms for digitally producing and distributing animated products, combined with the language of animation's traditional capacity to bridge cultural, language and age boundaries can play a key role in enhancing communication in areas with high added value such as: education, e-learning, training, scientific dissemination, that are typically very dense and complex.
Within this framework, the IP educational goal is, through the development of a series of practical examples, to lay out possible new applications of the language of animation.
In this perspective, the project seeks to take advantage of the the interaction, the sharing and exchange of experiences, the skills and different points of view specific of the different Schools participating to such intensive project, in order to define the boundaries of the profile of the future Informanimator.
The project's driving idea is that the growing accessibility to platforms for digitally producing and distributing animated products, combined with the language of animation's traditional capacity to bridge cultural, language and age boundaries can play a key role in enhancing communication in areas with high added value such as: education, e-learning, training, scientific dissemination, that are typically very dense and complex.
Within this framework, the IP educational goal is, through the development of a series of practical examples, to lay out possible new applications of the language of animation.
In this perspective, the project seeks to take advantage of the the interaction, the sharing and exchange of experiences, the skills and different points of view specific of the different Schools participating to such intensive project, in order to define the boundaries of the profile of the future Informanimator.
June 2012
- June 2013
Italy
TEI Of Athens
Laboratory Associate
Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens
Higher Education
Teaching Storyboard and Visual Narrative, Animation Principles and Techniques.
Higher Education
Teaching Storyboard and Visual Narrative, Animation Principles and Techniques.
2009
- 2013
Greece
SmartMagna
Animator - illustrator
2006 - 2007:
Animator - illustrator,
Represented by International Agency Smart Magna
Animator - illustrator,
Represented by International Agency Smart Magna
2006
- 2007
Greece
Geometry
Co-Founder
Geometry was a collective of designers, active in the areas of advertising and cinema and various other cultural venues that include audiovisual works in their context.
2008
- 2010
Athens, Greece
Several Companies
Graphic Designer - Animator - illustrator
2004:
3D Modeler, Stage at Foret Bleue, Paris
2001 – 2002:
Ranch: Directing children's Art Workshop, Korinthos
1999 – 2000:
Graphic Designer, Stage at Fine Art Studio, Athens
1998:
Stage at Fashion Design Studio Loukia
3D Modeler, Stage at Foret Bleue, Paris
2001 – 2002:
Ranch: Directing children's Art Workshop, Korinthos
1999 – 2000:
Graphic Designer, Stage at Fine Art Studio, Athens
1998:
Stage at Fashion Design Studio Loukia
1998
- 2004
Greece
Education
Facultad De Bellas Artes
BA
Erasmus student, painting
1998
Salamanca, Spain
University Marc Bloch
MA
Computer-Generated Images (3D) Applied in Communication
2003
- 2004
Strasbourg, France
Languages
Greek (Native),
English (Fluent),
French (Fluent),
Spanish (Advanced),
Awards
Onedotzero
2006: Onedotzero Film Challenge in Athens, top ten winning films
2006
Diabazo
2008: Diabazo Awards, Candidate illustrated book,"The Crazy Balls"
2008
Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation,IKY
Two year Scholarship for post-graduade studies abroad, (IKY), Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation
2001
National Technical University Of Athens
1st year Academic Excellence, Scholarship, TEI of Athens.
1998
Skills
Animation,
Concept Art,
Creative Analysis,
Illustration,
Storyboarding,
Visual Narratives,
Screenings - Festivals:
2022: Taf Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece)
2022: Chaniartoon fest (Chania, Greece)
2022: AnimaSyros Fest (Syros, Greece)
2022: Independent Video Film Fest-Pavlos Paraschakis (Athens, Greece)
2022: Cinema di Cefalù (Palermo, Sicily)
2022: Annecy International Animation Film Festival - MIFA (Annecy, France)
2021: Athens Digital Art Festival
2010: Design Walk (Athens)
2010: Video Art Festival (Athens)
2009: Design Walk (Athens, Greece)
2009: Kids Euro Festival (N. Xanthoulis Performance, Washington DC, USA)
2007: Loop Festival (Barcelona)
2007: Video Art Festival (Athens)
2007: Patra independent Film Makers (Patra, Greece)
2007: Festival 0 (Kalamata, Greece)
2006: Onedotzero film challenge (Athens
2006: Αthens Animfest (Athens)
2005: TIAF (Taiwan)
2005: French Animated film Fest (Malaysia)
2005: Festival d'un jour (France)
2004: Annecy International Animated Film Festival (France)
2004: Clermont Fernand Short Film Festival (France)
2004: AFCA (Animateque, Paris)
2004: ITFS (Germany)
2004: HAAF (Holland)
2004: Animatricks (Finland)
2022: Chaniartoon fest (Chania, Greece)
2022: AnimaSyros Fest (Syros, Greece)
2022: Independent Video Film Fest-Pavlos Paraschakis (Athens, Greece)
2022: Cinema di Cefalù (Palermo, Sicily)
2022: Annecy International Animation Film Festival - MIFA (Annecy, France)
2021: Athens Digital Art Festival
2010: Design Walk (Athens)
2010: Video Art Festival (Athens)
2009: Design Walk (Athens, Greece)
2009: Kids Euro Festival (N. Xanthoulis Performance, Washington DC, USA)
2007: Loop Festival (Barcelona)
2007: Video Art Festival (Athens)
2007: Patra independent Film Makers (Patra, Greece)
2007: Festival 0 (Kalamata, Greece)
2006: Onedotzero film challenge (Athens
2006: Αthens Animfest (Athens)
2005: TIAF (Taiwan)
2005: French Animated film Fest (Malaysia)
2005: Festival d'un jour (France)
2004: Annecy International Animated Film Festival (France)
2004: Clermont Fernand Short Film Festival (France)
2004: AFCA (Animateque, Paris)
2004: ITFS (Germany)
2004: HAAF (Holland)
2004: Animatricks (Finland)
illustrated books - Comics
2022: Είναι ο νονός μου εφευρέτης; Author: Vagelis Iliopoulos, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 9789601696621
2021: Τα Παραμύθια του Κλότσου και του Μπάτσου, Collective Work, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 9789601695842
2021: Ο άνθρωπος φωτιά, Author: Konstantinos Patsaros, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 9789601695860
2018: Γαλιλαίος Γαλιλέι, Μήνυμα από τα Άστρα / Galileo Galilei, Message from the Stars, Author: Κωστής Παπαϊωάννου / Kοstis Papaioannou, Publisher: Polymnia, ISBN: 978-618-83667-0-1
2012: Τζοακίνο Ροσσίνι: Ο κύκνος του Πέζαρο , Author: Kοstis Papaioannou, Publisher: Greek National Opera.
2012: Η μπάλα της ζωής τους, Author: Panos Christodoulou, Publisher: Kedros, ISBN: 978-960-04-4304-2
2009: Η Οικογένεια, Author: Elena Artzanidou, Publisher: Psichogios, ISBN: 978-960-453-332-9
2009: Ταξίδι χωρίς βαλίτσα, Author: Ageliki Varela, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 960-16-3071-6
2008: Χριστούγεννα, καιρός για θαύματα, Author: Maria Papagianni, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 9789601629346
2008: Άλλα τα μάτια της μαϊμούς κι άλλα της κουκουβάγιας, Author: Sophia Madouvalou, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 978-960-1-6257-75
2008: Tα τρελομπαλάκια, Author: Filippos Mandilaras, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 978-960-16-2630-7
2007: Τhe Life and Adventures of Santa Claus / H ζωή και οι περιπέτειες του Σάντα Κλάους, Author: L. Frank Baum, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 960-16-2599-2
2007: Το καλοκαίρι του Πέτρου Πελεκάνου, Αuthor: Sofia Kalatzakou, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 960-16-2408-2
2006: Ordinary Life, Monthly Comic Page, Metohos Magazine, Publisher: Metamedia, Canada.
2021: Τα Παραμύθια του Κλότσου και του Μπάτσου, Collective Work, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 9789601695842
2021: Ο άνθρωπος φωτιά, Author: Konstantinos Patsaros, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 9789601695860
2018: Γαλιλαίος Γαλιλέι, Μήνυμα από τα Άστρα / Galileo Galilei, Message from the Stars, Author: Κωστής Παπαϊωάννου / Kοstis Papaioannou, Publisher: Polymnia, ISBN: 978-618-83667-0-1
2012: Τζοακίνο Ροσσίνι: Ο κύκνος του Πέζαρο , Author: Kοstis Papaioannou, Publisher: Greek National Opera.
2012: Η μπάλα της ζωής τους, Author: Panos Christodoulou, Publisher: Kedros, ISBN: 978-960-04-4304-2
2009: Η Οικογένεια, Author: Elena Artzanidou, Publisher: Psichogios, ISBN: 978-960-453-332-9
2009: Ταξίδι χωρίς βαλίτσα, Author: Ageliki Varela, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 960-16-3071-6
2008: Χριστούγεννα, καιρός για θαύματα, Author: Maria Papagianni, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 9789601629346
2008: Άλλα τα μάτια της μαϊμούς κι άλλα της κουκουβάγιας, Author: Sophia Madouvalou, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 978-960-1-6257-75
2008: Tα τρελομπαλάκια, Author: Filippos Mandilaras, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 978-960-16-2630-7
2007: Τhe Life and Adventures of Santa Claus / H ζωή και οι περιπέτειες του Σάντα Κλάους, Author: L. Frank Baum, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 960-16-2599-2
2007: Το καλοκαίρι του Πέτρου Πελεκάνου, Αuthor: Sofia Kalatzakou, Publisher: Patakis, ISBN: 960-16-2408-2
2006: Ordinary Life, Monthly Comic Page, Metohos Magazine, Publisher: Metamedia, Canada.
Articles - Papers - Design Conferences
2022: Extracting the story behind the CIELL essays: the Visual design of the webtoons in the CIELL mobile App.
2020: Visuallising the CIELL essays
International Conference on Visual Literacies and Visual Technologies for Teaching, Learning and Inclusion.
2020: Comics for Inclusive English Language Learning.
LOUISIANA TECH SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL COMMUNICATION & VISUAL LITERACY
2019: Message from the Stars: a fascinating story about Galileo Galilei, by Eleni Tsampra, interview by Natasa Lackovic.
ReOPeN Graphic Futures, Research, Outreach, Pedagogy Network, Lancaster University
2018: Artistic action and stop motion animation for preschool children in the particular context of the summer camps organized by the Athens Open Schools institution: A case study
co-author: Christina Palaiologou, International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 1-17, September 2018.
2017: In-camera simplicity. Animation basics for data presentation. Nicolò Ceccarelli - Eleni, Tsampra, Communicating Complexity, 2ND INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE, Tenerife - Spain.
2013: An information design made by a non-designer: a visual representation based on an experiential logic.
Communicating Complexity, 2013 Conference Proceedings, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, ISBN: 978-88-6812-166-2
2013: Ιnformative Visualisation In Art: Truth Within A Lie.
Informanimation 2013, Research, education and design experiences.
2012: Applying the Actanciel Model on an Animated Film.
Informanimation 2012, Research, education and design experiences. ISBN: 978-88-917- 1178-6
2020: Visuallising the CIELL essays
International Conference on Visual Literacies and Visual Technologies for Teaching, Learning and Inclusion.
2020: Comics for Inclusive English Language Learning.
LOUISIANA TECH SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL COMMUNICATION & VISUAL LITERACY
2019: Message from the Stars: a fascinating story about Galileo Galilei, by Eleni Tsampra, interview by Natasa Lackovic.
ReOPeN Graphic Futures, Research, Outreach, Pedagogy Network, Lancaster University
2018: Artistic action and stop motion animation for preschool children in the particular context of the summer camps organized by the Athens Open Schools institution: A case study
co-author: Christina Palaiologou, International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 1-17, September 2018.
2017: In-camera simplicity. Animation basics for data presentation. Nicolò Ceccarelli - Eleni, Tsampra, Communicating Complexity, 2ND INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE, Tenerife - Spain.
2013: An information design made by a non-designer: a visual representation based on an experiential logic.
Communicating Complexity, 2013 Conference Proceedings, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, ISBN: 978-88-6812-166-2
2013: Ιnformative Visualisation In Art: Truth Within A Lie.
Informanimation 2013, Research, education and design experiences.
2012: Applying the Actanciel Model on an Animated Film.
Informanimation 2012, Research, education and design experiences. ISBN: 978-88-917- 1178-6