Post-Spectacular Office

10/09/2024

The Cool Kids Society
 
Step into .epta, our latest interior project in Thessaloniki, where specialty coffee and craft cocktails converge. It’s relaxed laid-back vibe and communal ambiance is emphasized by low bar seating that fosters social interaction.
The design narrative unfolds through a thoughtful juxtaposition of raw, exposed concrete layered surfaces and vibrant pink neon accents, creating a dialogue between industrial austerity and dynamic expression, reflecting a blend of dualities. The incorporation of inox equipment as a main character of the synthesis complements the raw materials, while design elements subtly reflect the owners’ affinity for sea, surf culture, and urban fashion.
 The handcrafted wooden elements, painted by artist Efharis Leontopoulou , and bespoke textiles, skillfully sewn by stitching artisan , adding a layer of artisanal craftsmanship to the space. Bold graphic design elements and an extraordinary arrangement of objects contribute to a visually stimulating environment. This curation balances spontaneous, improvisational methodology with meticulously designed details. 
DekaEpta represents an informal dialogue between contrasting elements, achieving a synthesis of youthful exuberance, urban landscapes, coastal desire, y2k memorabilia and shiny disco vibes.

22/07/2024

ΤΟΠ, Καφενείο, An absolute reality

TOP is a Greek kafenio/taverna located in Thessaloniki. A space with extensive visibility from the street passage, open and connected to the life of the neighborhood.
By addressing the old wisdom and slow observation that contains the act of hanging around at a kafenio place we tried to express the vivid space qualities where the rituals of this every day and all-day gathering are happening. Politics of leisure and alternative forms of togetherness are combined to rethink symbols that have a strong reference to the Greek kafenio as the repetition of chairs around a village square, the sports watching chaos and the need for localism expression.
The natural irregularity of these spaces worked as a starting point for our design. Working on the decorative qualities as a collection of large-scale mementos but removing any nostalgia from the picture. Creating still life compositions through colored rubber flooring, bright opaline lights, basic wood surfaces and roughly whitewashed walls. Objects that leave traces of finding beauty in the straightforward.
The mismatched textiles suspended in space work as a memory of light coverings’ familiarity, ease and quickness in rural architecture. These partitions serve multiple purposes, including providing a scenic backdrop, dividing sections and creating layered interpretations. A soft system underlining the stillness of things.
Cabinets, textiles and table tops all function as canvas for hand painted scenes. The essence of free hand painting surfaces to fix and clean something as is usually done in traditional houses on the occasion of a big change. A gesture to celebrate space, which serves as a meditation on memory and the impossibility to fully control domestic every-day spaces.
This project is a dedication to craftsmanship ceremonies. A list of objects imprinting stories through materiality such as a rave style hand-woven textile, a marble plate picturing crispy clean shirts, graffiti handmade church candles. All fragments of a vernacular sensibility where the ergonomic equipment is combined with the sweetening ornaments.

15/07/2024

ΤΟΠ, Καφενείο, An absolute reality

TOP is a Greek kafenio/taverna located in Thessaloniki. A space with extensive visibility from the street passage, open and connected to the life of the neighborhood.

By addressing the old wisdom and slow observation that contains the act of hanging around at a kafenio place we tried to express the vivid space qualities where the rituals of this every day and all-day gathering are happening. Politics of leisure and alternative forms of togetherness are combined to rethink symbols that have a strong reference to the Greek kafenio as the repetition of chairs around a village square, the sports watching chaos and the need for localism expression.
The natural irregularity of these spaces worked as a starting point for our design. Working on the decorative qualities as a collection of large-scale mementos but removing any nostalgia from the picture. Creating still life compositions through colored rubber flooring, bright opaline lights, basic wood surfaces and roughly whitewashed walls. Objects that leave traces of finding beauty in the straightforward.
The mismatched textiles suspended in space work as a memory of light coverings’ familiarity, ease and quickness in rural architecture. These partitions serve multiple purposes, including providing a scenic backdrop, dividing sections and creating layered interpretations. A soft system underlining the stillness of things.
Cabinets, textiles and table tops all function as canvas for hand painted scenes. The essence of free hand painting surfaces to fix and clean something as is usually done in traditional houses on the occasion of a big change. A gesture to celebrate space, which serves as a meditation on memory and the impossibility to fully control domestic every-day spaces. This project is a dedication to craftsmanship ceremonies. A list of objects imprinting stories through materiality such as a rave style hand-woven textile, a marble plate picturing crispy clean shirts, graffiti handmade church candles. All fragments of a vernacular sensibility where the ergonomic equipment is combined with the sweetening ornaments.

12/04/2024

Project Yfasma. An attempt to create an airtight environment that includes rural and urban memories. An object that tells stories from our cities and stories from our escapes. Something strict and ruffly that we carry around with us as an anchor to restlessness.


138 Pireos st.
04.04.24 — 14.04.24

Tilte:
Little house on the prairie
Dimensions:
60x20x40cm
Materials:
Textile and rubber foam

22/02/2024

19/02/2024

FF(EXH)(SKG) ⚪️ We were commissioned, in collaboration with , to design an exhibition stand for Future Format, the prominent printing house, for the annual Book Fair in Thessaloniki. Future Format is known for its focus on technology and excellence, and these values were at the heart of our design concept. Our aim was to create a space that reflects the company’s philosophy. This exhibition stand was a project linked in terms of concept design to the one in Graphica Expo. Our inspiration came from the “white cube” concept used in museums, which emphasizes the expansive nature of the pavilion. We wanted visitors to view the publications as artifacts and appreciate the tradition of the art of printing. The white color of the space represents the delicate handling required in the printing process as well as the unprinted paper.

…

We employed clean and basic geometries to enable visitors to delve deeper into the experience. A large display table in the center of the space invites visitors to touch and interact with the publications. Each element of the stand was designed with structural integrity in mind, as a spatial expression of the central concept. In this case the central idea and feel remains the same, elements are added that integrate the pavilion into the specific spatial data of the exhibition. The shell borrows architectural elements of the space such as metal surfaces, typical cladding of the TIF buildings, and the central element where the publications are displayed becomes a key point of differentiation in relation to the original stand. The concept of tying and stacking of a traveling parcel is emphasized here, as are the exhibits. The white shiny tarpaulin and black straps were the main tools to convey these meanings.

Merit / Exhibition Spaces
Grail Awards 24

📸 Panos Tsomakos / Semiotik Design Agency / Post-Spectacular Office

15/02/2024

FF(EXH)(SKG) ⚪️ We were commissioned, in collaboration with , to design an exhibition stand for Future Format, the prominent printing house, for the annual Book Fair in Thessaloniki. Future Format is known for its focus on technology and excellence, and these values were at the heart of our design concept. Our aim was to create a space that reflects the company’s philosophy. This exhibition stand was a project linked in terms of concept design to the one in Graphica Expo. Our inspiration came from the “white cube” concept used in museums, which emphasizes the expansive nature of the pavilion. We wanted visitors to view the publications as artifacts and appreciate the tradition of the art of printing. The white color of the space represents the delicate handling required in the printing process as well as the unprinted paper.

…

We employed clean and basic geometries to enable visitors to delve deeper into the experience. A large display table in the center of the space invites visitors to touch and interact with the publications. Each element of the stand was designed with structural integrity in mind, as a spatial expression of the central concept. In this case the central idea and feel remains the same, elements are added that integrate the pavilion into the specific spatial data of the exhibition. The shell borrows architectural elements of the space such as metal surfaces, typical cladding of the TIF buildings, and the central element where the publications are displayed becomes a key point of differentiation in relation to the original stand. The concept of tying and stacking of a traveling parcel is emphasized here, as are the exhibits. The white shiny tarpaulin and black straps were the main tools to convey these meanings.

Merit / Exhibition Spaces
Grail Awards 24

📸 Panos Tsomakos / Semiotik Design Agency / Post-Spectacular Office

09/02/2024

FF(EXH)(ATH) We were commisioned to design an exhibition stand for Future Format, a prominent printing house, for the Graphica Expo 2023 event. FutureFormat is known for its focus on technology and excellence, and these values were at the heart of our design concept. Our aim was to create a space that reflects the company’s philosophy. Our inspiration came from the “white cube” concept used in museums, which emphasizes the expansive nature of the pavilion. We wanted visitors to view the publications as artifacts and appreciate the tradition of the art of printing. The white color of the space represents the delicate handling required in the printing process as well as the unprinted paper.

Shortlisted / Exhibition Spaces
Grail Awards 24

09/02/2024

FF(EXH)(ATH) ⚫️ We were commisioned to design an exhibition stand for Future Format, a prominent printing house, for the Graphica Expo 2023 event. FutureFormat is known for its focus on technology and excellence, and these values were at the heart of our design concept. Our aim was to create a space that reflects the company’s philosophy. Our inspiration came from the “white cube” concept used in museums, which emphasizes the expansive nature of the pavilion. We wanted visitors to view the publications as artifacts and appreciate the tradition of the art of printing. The white color of the space represents the delicate handling required in the printing process as well as the unprinted paper.

Shortlisted / Exhibition Spaces
Grail Awards 24
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01/02/2024

Knauf World Monograph 🔵⚪️ The Knauf World is an initiative by Knauf Hellas centered around the sphere of  culture, design and architecture. Knauf is a German based company and the world’s largest producer of industrial plaster products, with a presence of thirty years in Greece. The aim of Knauf World’s actions is to conduct a series of initiatives that explore current design trends, identify new opportunities, encourage experimentation and ultimately lead to innovation.
 
As part of this, and due to celebration of Knauf’s 30 years of industrial and commercial activities in Greece, we were asked to design an anniversary edition which aims to highlight the most important milestones of the company in Greece and Cyprus as well as its corporate philosophy.
 
The printed material is presented in the form of a book kit that includes a catalog and a notebook, following the design principles of the visual identity of Knauf World, which was designed in 2021. It features a dynamic system of forms with references to the core Knauf logo, creating a dynamic geometric system onto which the content of the material is articulated.

Curation


Art Direction & Design


Printing


Papers


Typeface
ES Klarheit Kurrent .ch

-design

28/01/2024

GRAIL Awards 24! We are honored to receive an award and three merits in the Greek Architecture Interiors and Lighting Awards 2024.

Lots of love and gratitude to our clients for giving us the opportunity to be creatively involved in these amazing projects and to all of our partners for their support.

Finally, thanks a million to our spectacular team.

GRAIL 24

AWARD:
Bars and Restaurants
Pelosof Pelosof

MERIT:
Retail
Optolux Katerina Tsilia Optolux Οπτικά

MERIT:
Exhibition Spaces
Kaisariani 22 Kessariani 22

MERIT:
Exhibition Spaces
FF SKG / Thessaloniki book fair 23 Future Format
In collaboration with Semiotik Design Agency

19/01/2024

Aluminco Skyline is a printed product display that aims to communicate to the world of architecture the new and innovative minimal line of window frames. Aluminco is a pioneering Greek company in the aluminum industry, specializing in frames design. The design goal is the creation of a catalog that reflects the company’s modern and innovative orientation and communicates the quality and technical characteristics of the five products of the Skyline frame family, in a structured way. A horizontal canvas system on which a three-level typographic system is articulated, composes the visual identity of the printed showcase, while at the same time a system of standard layouts allows the catalog to be read systematically, giving it the characteristics of a manual for architects. The clear design rules that run through the printed display, the simplicity of the design gestures but also the highlighting of a technological-mechanical style, resulting both from the typographical style of the printed showcase and its bookbinding editing, are the characteristics that underline the main concept.



Greek Communication Design Awards 2022
Award
Category: Corporate Publication

Curation


Art Direction & Design


Printing


Papers


Typeface
Aeonik

-design

19/01/2024

Aluminco Skyline is a printed product display that aims to communicate to the world of architecture the new and innovative minimal line of window frames. Aluminco is a pioneering Greek company in the aluminum industry, specializing in frames design. The design goal is the creation of a catalog that reflects the company’s modern and innovative orientation and communicates the quality and technical characteristics of the five products of the Skyline frame family, in a structured way. A horizontal canvas system on which a three-level typographic system is articulated, composes the visual identity of the printed showcase, while at the same time a system of standard layouts allows the catalog to be read systematically, giving it the characteristics of a manual for architects. The clear design rules that run through the printed display, the simplicity of the design gestures but also the highlighting of a technological-mechanical style, resulting both from the typographical style of the printed showcase and its bookbinding editing, are the characteristics that underline the main concept.



Greek Communication Design Awards 2022
Award
Category: Corporate Publication

Curation


Art Direction & Design


Printing


Papers


Typeface
Aeonik

-design

17/01/2024

AtPE Issue (05) ⚫️ Archisearch the Paper Edition is the printed version of , a platform about architecture and design.

Archisearch the Paper Edition:


Title Owner & Curator
Vassilios Bartzokas

 
Art Direction & Design

 
Editorial Director

 
Publisher

 
Printing

 
Papers

17/01/2024

Athens Regenerated. Special Appendix / Archisearch the Paper Edition / AtPE (05)

Archisearch the Paper Edition:


Title Owner & Curator
Vassilios Bartzokas

 
Art Direction & Design

 
Editorial Director

 
Publisher

 
Printing

 
Papers

14/11/2023

AtPE Issue (05) ⚫️ Archisearch the Paper Edition is the printed version of , a platform about architecture and design.

Archisearch the Paper Edition:

Title Owner & Curator
Vassilios Bartzokas

 
Art Direction & Design

 
Editorial Director

 
Publisher
Aris Marinakis
 
Printing

 
Papers

09/11/2023

We were thrilled to design the visual identity for one of the most prominent annual cultural events in Thessaloniki, the 58th Dimitria Festival that took place this October.

«From the ordinary day-to-day expected continuity to the apocalyptic disruption»

The Dimitria Festival was envisioned as a kind of cultural ritual where even the most casual, daily actions acquire symbolic power. Thus, we created a symbolic visual language that translates and recognizes the cohesive communal power of the festivities. A set of symbols borrowed from the world of city signage as an expression of the quotidian, from the world of hagiographic imagery as an expression of the transcendental, from the world of construction sites as an expression of the incidental, and from the world of urban space as an expression of the spontaneous, eventually creating a visual palimpsest of the familiar.

21/06/2023

The life of glass II
Optical store, Thessaloniki, Greece

Glass alchemies: All normal clear glass has a light green hue to it, caused by the iron content in the glass. Iron oxide comes from the sand or cask that the glass was melted in. The higher the iron levels, the greener the hue.

Space description
Two former identical side to side properties where united to create one 70 m2 eyewear retail store in the suburbs of Thessaloniki. This dual mirrored nature was retained and highlighted, emphasising the structural elements (e.g. the two storefronts, the symmetrical beams and columns). The floor plan was organized around a central storage element with the aim of achieving unobstructed perimeter movement around it. The private areas (extra storage, optometry lab, wc, kitchen) were organised at the back of the store, without cutting off totally the visual contact with the rest of the area. The two main display areas were developed in an identical mirrored way upon the wall surfaces and the storefront is kept uncomplicated and open to the interiors.

Concept description
The main idea was the "correlation of dualities": the natural and the technical, the scientific and the human, the fragile and the rigid, the solid and the segmented, the fragmental and the robust, the uncompleted and the definitive, the repetitiveness and the singularity. Shiny glossy surfaces contradict with the unfinished shell, underlining the space and its ascending progression through time. The hybrid quality of the space, the nature of the surroundings are being reflected in broken mirrors and shiny lacquered green tinted surfaces, creating ever-changing in between spectacles while moving around the place.

19/06/2023

The life of glass
Optical store, Thessaloniki, Greece

Glass alchemies: All normal clear glass has a light green hue to it, caused by the iron content in the glass. Iron oxide comes from the sand or cask that the glass was melted in. The higher the iron levels, the greener the hue.

Space description
Two former identical side to side properties where united to create one 70 m2 eyewear retail store in the suburbs of Thessaloniki. This dual mirrored nature was retained and highlighted, emphasising the structural elements (e.g. the two storefronts, the symmetrical beams and columns). The floor plan was organized around a central storage element with the aim of achieving unobstructed perimeter movement around it. The private areas (extra storage, optometry lab, wc, kitchen) were organised at the back of the store, without cutting off totally the visual contact with the rest of the area. The two main display areas were developed in an identical mirrored way upon the wall surfaces and the storefront is kept uncomplicated and open to the interiors.

Concept description
The main idea was the "correlation of dualities": the natural and the technical, the scientific and the human, the fragile and the rigid, the solid and the segmented, the fragmental and the robust, the uncompleted and the definitive, the repetitiveness and the singularity. Shiny glossy surfaces contradict with the unfinished shell, underlining the space and its ascending progression through time. The hybrid quality of the space, the nature of the surroundings are being reflected in broken mirrors and shiny lacquered green tinted surfaces, creating ever-changing in between spectacles while moving around the place.

26/05/2023

We are looking for an architect to join the Post-Spectacular Office team in Thessaloniki or Athens for a full time role.

KEY SKILLS:
— a minimum of 2 years of experience in designing and managing demanding projects, both at a conceptual and executional phase
— a critical mindset with both the willingness and ability to take initiative
— a practical working knowledge of CAD, 3d software and Adobe Creative Suite

HOW TO APPLY
If this sounds like you, please email [email protected] including:
- An up-to-date CV
- An up-to-date portfolio up to 20mb
- Your availability and potential starting date

If interested, email us with the following subject header: ARCHITECT 2023

P-SO is a narrative-driven design office that combines the wide experience from the fields of archit

26/05/2023

We are looking for a highly detail oriented, organised and systematic studio manager to join the Post-Spectacular Office team in Thessaloniki. This is a part time role.

A proven experience in a similar role will be preferred, ideally having worked with a creative studio before.

This role will also be fundamental for all functional aspects of our practice and the wider team between Athens and Thessaloniki.
KEY SKILLS:
— a minimum 2 years experience and a degree in a related field
— time management and interpersonal skills
— knowledge of design-related software and studio equipment
— ability to prioritise
— communication skills in oral and written language
— monitoring, organising and filing skills
HOW TO APPLY
If this sounds like you, please email [email protected] including:
- An up-to-date CV with at least one reference
- A cover letter
- Your availability and potential starting date
If interested email us with the following subject header:
STUDIO MANAGER 2023

22/05/2023

We are looking for an intern architect to join the Post-Spectacular Office team for a full time role. This is a 6 month payed internship based in Thessaloniki.

KEY SKILLS:

— conceptual thinking

— interest in craft

— a practical working knowledge of CAD, 3d software and Adobe Creative Suite

HOW TO APPLY

If this sounds like you, please email [email protected] including:

- An up-to-date CV
- An up-to-date portfolio up to 20mbps
- Your availability and potential starting date

If interested email us with the following subject header:
INTERN ARCHITECT 2023

22/05/2023

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“What we see from where we stand” | 25 Μαΐου - Κέντρο Αρχιτεκτονικής Μεσογείου (CΑΜ)

Το Κέντρο Αρχιτεκτονικής Μεσογείου (CΑΜ) στο πλαίσιο μιας σειράς διαλέξεων αρχιτεκτόνων για το 2023 διοργανώνει διάλεξη του αρχιτεκτονικού γραφείου Post-Spectacular Office με τίτλο “What we see from where we stand”, η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Μεγάλο Αρσενάλι στα Χανιά στις 25 Μαΐου. Την ευθύνη της διοργάνωσης έχουν η ΚΕΠΠΕΔΗΧ-ΚΑΜ και η Αρχιτεκτονική Επιτροπή του CΑΜ.

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