BIG ISSUE (UK): A Big Home for Big Santa

Editorial Illustration

Dec 20

Written By Charis Tsevis

Big Issue is a magazine that helps homeless people around the world to get some sort of income.
This holiday season the editors of the UK edition asked me to create a Big Santa made out of hundreds of photos of these sellers from the streets of London.

The Big Issue was founded in London in 1991. Compare the Street Cat Bob cover for the same magazine.

Big Santa mosaic – homeless vendors' faces forming Father Christmas. Big Issue UK holiday cover. — The actual illustration (Click to see larger image) | Zoom it (58 megapixels)

Mosaic on BIG ISSUE's cover.

Close-up of a bearded man's face in a mosaic built from many small photos of Big Issue vendors in red vests

Mosaic of overlapping tilted photos of Big Issue vendors in red vests holding copies of the magazine

algorithmic mosaicmagazine covermosaic portraitidentity

FRONT ROW I/O: Coco and Steve

DARMOUTH ALUMNI (USA): Nicholas Carr: The Reluctant Ludite