Sunday, 21 October 2012

The Donousa Tales vol.2: Dionysus & Ariadne

Here' s another illustration based on a Donousa tale and people's summer memories from the island, this time coming as a special t-shirt design

Digital Print
Heather Grey t-shirt
print by: The Lab T-Shirts Athens
the she-won't-feel-like-a-tourist-there-no-not-anymore model: Rania K.

Great suspence story and action:
According to an ancient greek story, Donousa took its name by Dionysus, the greek god of wine, who once lived on the island. There, the myth says that Theseus and Ariadne stopped for a while, on their journey back from Crete. Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne and decided to keep her in the island (Athena played a significant role in that as well, however, intervening on similar occasions was sth unusual for that great goddess... not!)



We didn' t want to bring some typical ancient greek amphora art style but modernizing the story a bit, using some minimal design stuff... The story goes on under the Cedar tree (Cedrus), which is one the most characteristic symbols of the island.



... and the hidden coordinates of course (too late, I guess)