design essence by foti flogeras from greece

Design by Foti.
The essence of these designs is an attempt to achieve an integration of the cosmetic art with the purity of nature, combined together with the transformation and evolvement of human emotions feelings and senses.

These designs come from a variety of different themes based upon simple materials from the natural environment. The designing process was originally influenced by images like shells, a sea stone, volcanic rocks, wood, insects, flowers, gold and silver leafs and bronze, all collected from different places around Greece, like the island of Santorini, other islands from the Ionian Sea and the Olympus Mountain. Those materials were gathered radically during a twelve month period, therefore each one of them represents something different and unique taken from each one of the four seasons thus, capturing and expressing the changes that appear for example in weather, the colors in nature, etc. basic things which affect human emotions, and feelings.
A digital camera was used for taking pictures of the initial collected natural materials, which were then processed artistically (combinations of different saps, colors, mixtures, etc.) with the use of Photoshop.
Foti’s designing philosophy is not dictated by fashion or any technological necessities. It’s about empowering people with confidence–building products which are environmentally friendly and dominate thinking in ecological and green issues.
Foti characterized this collection of bottles as a description of the mystery which is created by the perfection and simplicity of nature. In other words a festivity of human emotions which can be awakened visually, bringing back old memories, like a summer holiday in an island or a melancholic rainy afternoon in the country, emotions which can further be stimulated and enhanced by the perfume through the sense of smell.