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The 24-year-old teacher at the Mathematics High School in Plovdiv, Georgi Georgiev, won the competition for creating a logo and slogan for the campaign for Bulgaria’s accession to the Eurozone. His project was preferred by the jury among a total of 22 proposals of authors, collectives and companies that participated in the competition of the Ministry of Finance. The logo contains an image of the Bulgarian tricolor woven into the euro sign, and its slogan “Unity is strength” is inspired by the legend of Khan Kubrat, his sons and a bundle of sticks.
“That was the first idea that came to me. Sometimes that happens,” says Georgi. “Sometimes idea after idea alternates until you settle on the final decision, and in other cases it comes to you right from the first time. So it was with this idea. I just decided that it was worth realizing it and participating in the contest,” he says.
The young teacher teaches “Computer Graphics and Design” to twelfth-graders at the Mathematical High School “Acad. Kiril Popov” in Plovdiv. His students are future programmers. They also do web design, with their main task being writing code. Along with this, however, it is necessary to build a visual culture, which Georgi teaches them.
He himself has been involved in design and visual communication for more than 10 years. He graduated from “Advertising Graphics” at the Art High School in Plovdiv, where his teachers were Kostadin Otonov and Boris Bogdanov. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts with a major in “Poster and Visual Communication” with Prof. Nikolay Mladenov, and he is currently completing a master’s degree in “Visual Communication” with Assoc. Prof. Nenko Atanasov and Prof. Ivan Gazdov.
In addition to the future programmers at the Mathematics High School, Georgi teaches children from the “Kokiche” kindergarten in Plovdiv. “I draw with preschoolers there. With young children, it is good to track at what age exactly what and how they draw,” says Georgi. At this age, children develop very quickly. For each year there is a schedule of what they should draw, how to perceive the world and colors, how human-like is the thing they draw. “It’s good to monitor this because it also shows many things about their health and emotional state,” says the young teacher.
He is about to graduate with a master’s degree in a week. After that, he plans to work on his specialty, but also continue to teach. “I think that I have been given a lot by my teachers since high school, and it is good that this is returned, and that young people who want to work in design are taught quality,” says Georgi Georgiev.
